Top 1200 History Making Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.

The best stuff comes out when you're not making it for anything and you don't really know what you're making.

It’s not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.

I learned about making films by going into advertising, making commercials.

Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.

The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.

If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company.

We have to remember that it's usually women who are making the health care decisions for their families.... True equality would mean making sure that there's equity in terms of how insurance reimburses certain procedures; making sure that we have preventative care that's covered so women can get their mammograms and Pap screens without extra charges.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be.

We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history of mental illness or a history of a criminal background from owning a firearm.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

Using the ‘military decision-making process’ is extremely valuable when making policy decisions.

It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

If I can't connect emotionally with the music I'm making, there's no point making it in the first place.

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

All I care about is making jokes that are funny and making people laugh.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

I made a lot of short films before making a feature film. Actually, I learnt film-making by making short films.

Making money and making the world a better place are not contrary to one another.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Making something the norm is the only way of not making it a talking point.

The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.

That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

I wanted people to know that I was making what I was making just on a sampler, basically.

One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.