Made It Quotes - Page 26

• I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

  John Sayles

  Art, Weekend, Clothes

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• The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Eye, Men, Religion

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Justice, Made, Folly

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.226, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Since taking office, I've made it clear that the United States was prepared to begin a new chapter of engagement with the Islamic Republic of Iran. We offered the Iranian government a clear choice. It could fulfill its international obligations and realize greater security, deeper economic and political integration with the world, and a better future for all Iranians. Or it could continue to flout its responsibilities and face even more pressure and isolation.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Responsibility, Iran

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• I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

  Christopher Atkins

  Ghouls, Vampire, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Technology, Israel

  Remarks by the President at Signing of the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 27, 2012.

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• Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of the public domain of scholarship can he truly lay claim to it as his own. For his claim resides only in the recognition accorded by peers in the social system of science through reference to his work.

  Robert K. Merton

  Science, Ideas, Peers

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• Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!

  Peter Asher

  Girl, Hair, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.

  Sean William Scott

  Opportunity, Ideas, Guy

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• Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,' Sayna said. 'That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend he loved. That in the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to overcome darkness.

  Jim Butcher

  Love, Hero, Dark

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• It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.

  Tom Chapin

  Love, Believe, Guitar

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• Regardless of past aspirations, this is the right time to be focusing on services for two specific reasons The increasing ubiquity of broadband has made it viable, and the proven economics of the advertising model has made it profitable.

  Ray Ozzie

  Past, Ubiquity, Two

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• Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Peace, Europe, Voice

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• I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Mean, Equality

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• Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Usa, Effort, President

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• A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.

  Randy Couture

  Shapes, Easy, Lifestyle

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• World hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so! God has made the universe to be based on a moral law. So long as man disobeys it he is revolting against God. That’s what we need in the world today - people who will stand for right and goodness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Men, Our World

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Sermon at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. February 28, 1954.

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• In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed." This is what should be sought in Christian schools, not just teaching, but effective teaching. Christian content alone is insufficient. It must be presented in a certain way, and that way cannot be reduced to technique. Nevertheless, God has graciously made it possible to bring people the truth by how the truth is presented.

  Douglas Wilson

  Christian, Teaching, School

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• A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Father, Winning

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• We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

  Waylon Jennings

  War, White, Guy

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• I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.

  Tom Wopat

  Interesting, Agents, Want

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• The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making

  Wendell Berry

  Want, Made, Chosen

  Wendell Berry (2012). “A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural”, p.39, Counterpoint Press

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• The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Worry, New Day, Anxiety

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• You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

  Winston Churchill

  Jerusalem, Made, Jew

  "The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide".

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• I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

  Jesse Helms

  Decision, Important, Speak

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