Top 1200 History Making Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

When you're having trouble making a decision you're making it too soon.

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.

I enjoy making people laugh and making them smile.

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

The book I'm working on next, which will be my fifth, returns to literary history. I really do love literary history, and I have plenty more ideas on it.

Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until traditional education makes them afraid of making mistakes. The long-term value of making for kids is in learning to become an active participant in the world around them rather than a consumer of prepackaged products and solutions.

Making vocal hooks is my favorite thing to do. That's what I love about songwriting - making catchy stuff.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

History is one of the only fields where contributions by amateurs are taken seriously, providing you follow the rules and document your sources. In history, it's what you write, not what your credentials are.

What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like “Spy Kids.”

People are used to seeing natural history programmes that have been filmed over many years which are concentrated, focused visions of natural history.

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

Retirement shouldn't be making the choice between buying much-needed medication or putting food on the table; making the choice between heating an apartment in the cold winter months or paying rent; making the choice between paying a phone bill or seeing a doctor.

History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.

I built my career in the league playing defense and making shots, and also making plays when I needed to.

When you’ve had children, your body changes; there’s history to it. I like the evolution of that history; I’m fortunate to be with somebody who likes the evolution of that history. I think it’s important to not eradicate it. I look at someone’s face and I see the work before I see the person... You’re certainly not staving off the inevitable. And if you’re doing it out of fear, that fear’s still going to be seen through your eyes. The windows to your soul, they say.

A star player, even when he's not shooting the ball in crunch time, he's making the decisions and making the plays.

I won F4, and I won F3 - F3 by, I believe, the biggest margin in history and as one of the youngest drivers in history. I'm just pointing out facts. I'm not bragging or anything.

I'm an expert at killing time on planes now. I do a lot of reading. My secret sort of nerdy side is I'm quite into history so I read a lot of history books. Now I write for a few things and I've had a few history things published, which is cool. I indulge my nerdy side and it's kind of as far away as you can get from the acting world so that's nice as well.

I think a lot of women feel like they have to choose between making movies or making a family.

Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

Belichick, I recognize the fact this is a Hall of Fame coach. He'll go down in history as maybe the greatest football coach in the history of this game, or going to be close to it.

Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

I had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.

If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being left out which most marks the spirit and life of the person. My own thesis is complementary: science taught ... without a sense of history is robbed of those very qualities that make it worth teaching to the student of the humanities and the social sciences.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed...My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.

Commitment is making a choice to follow through or to honor. Engagement and guarantee - we all love guarantees in life. Making a commitment, whether it's for something like climate change or to my family, or even to my fans - what that means to me is, whether on paper or verbally or spiritually, making a promise to guarantee that I will fulfill whatever agreement we have.

I haven't spent years in fashion making friends and making enemies.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.

I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.

The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own