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Well-behaved women seldom make history. -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
People who behave rarely make history. -- Josh Linkner
Work hard, have fun and make history. -- Jeff Bezos
Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history. -- Adolf Hitler
Live in the moment. Moments make history. -- Nikki Sixx
While we read history we make history. -- George William Curtis
Well behaved women do not make history. -- Mae West
You make history when you do business. -- Barbara Kruger
Men make history, not the other way around. -- Harry S. Truman
Idlers do not make history: they suffer it! -- Peter Kropotkin
Some people make headlines while others make history. -- Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history. -- Chris Weitz
I did not come to NASA to make history. -- Sally Ride
The normal make a living. The deranged make history. -- Christopher Titus
Men make history. History does not make the man. -- Harry S. Truman
If you want to make history, make a difference. -- Kevin A. McKoy
You have to be a little bad to make history. -- Brent Weeks
the main thing is to make history not to write it -- Otto von Bismarck
Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot. -- George W. Bush
If you make history with God, He'll make history with you -- Bill Johnson
It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history. -- Adolf Hitler
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. -- Oscar Wilde
It takes only a few seconds to make history new again. -- Amity Shlaes
I'm not here to make money, I'm here to make history. -- Lenny Dykstra
It was my dream as a kid was to make history. -- Keith Thurman
You can make history, or you will be vilified by it. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
The men who make history have not time to write it. -- Klemens von Metternich
The main thing is to make history, not to write it. -- Otto von Bismarck
It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. -- Norman Mailer
If you want to make history, you have to do historic things -- Kobe Bryant
It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes. -- Joseph Stalin
When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history. -- Gloria Steinem
Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history. -- Robin Sharma
Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making. -- Joseph J. Ellis
Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it. -- Oscar Wilde
God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just. -- Huston Smith
If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee. -- George Nethercutt
When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history. -- Scott Belsky
The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together. -- Guy Kawasaki
We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history. -- John McCain
It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people. -- Nelson Mandela
Hitler is the rare individual who really did make history - specifically he made it worse. -- John Green
The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West. -- Pankaj Mishra
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it. -- Camilo Jose Cela
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history. -- Mark McGwire
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it. -- Otto von Bismarck
Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth. -- Kenneth Goldsmith
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. -- Peace Pilgrim
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this. -- Jeremy Rifkin
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself. -- Sarah Gadon
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. -- Albert Camus
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A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it. -- Albert Camus
Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again. -- Paul Martin
Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women! -- Medea Benjamin
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it. -- Julian Cope
I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now. -- Big Pun
Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture. -- George Friedman
Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history. -- David E. Hoffman
The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history. -- William Safire
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money. -- Don Simpson
I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history. -- Aleksandar Hemon
A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock. -- Dan Simmons
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective. -- Michael Eisner
When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it. -- Carroll Quigley
To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true. -- David Wells
I am going in there to win this fight. I don't think people are taking me seriously. I'm gonna surprise a lot of people. This guy helped two people make history. -- Bernard Hopkins
What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse. -- Gavriel David Rosenfeld
[Donald Trump ] would make history in so many ways because he is a candidate who eschewed the traditional arts of political campaigns, including field organization, traditional advertising, debate preparation and policy knowledge. -- Mara Liasson
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. -- Harry S Truman
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. -- Harry S Truman
To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi. -- Jurgen Klopp
I heard my teacher said "great people make history". I am not concern about "great" or "people" or "history". I am concerned about "make" and it keeps me asking the next question "how?"! They are Determined and Disciplined! -- Israelmore Ayivor
If you don't play, then don't pick up a paycheck. Competition is why you play the game. I understand they've already reached some goals. That's all good. But if you can make history, take a shot at it. -- Mike Ditka
If humanity as a whole was to embrace and practice love; mankind would make history of transforming a bleak world overnight, for out of love we do the right things that are not meant to harm but to build. -- Wayne Chirisa
Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim. -- Elizabeth Kostova
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present. -- Simon Schama
I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them. -- Cobi Jones
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history. -- Alison Weir
So if Hillary [Clinton] is elected president, it will make history in two ways. She'll be the first woman president. And Bill Clinton, he'll be the first man and the first former president to return to the White House in the capacity of spouse. -- Terry Gross
And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history. Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done. -- Anne Bartlett
The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
History takes time. History makes memory. -- Gertrude Stein
We are set to make very bad history. -- Tom Wilson
Plot makes the character just as history makes the man. -- Thomas Steinbeck
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. -- Jacques Ellul
I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point! -- Dean Devlin
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. -- Henry James
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. -- Thomas Hardy
Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too. -- Joan Rivers
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. -- Ferdinand Marcos
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history. -- Anselm Kiefer
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. -- Sarah Vowell
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. -- Henry Ford
History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live! -- James Howard Kunstler
Men make their own history -- Karl Marx
Make history, don't tell stories -- Constance Chuks Friday
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols. -- Elizabeth A. Johnson
History conspires to make us who we are. -- Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
Make history or be a part of it. -- Phil Knight
If you want to ma history make a difference. -- Kevin A. McKoy
Do we have the will to make poverty history? -- Edward de Bono
I write and film history; I don't make it. -- Jean-Luc Godard
History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make. -- Jean Bodin
History make us smarter. Learn it before being to late. -- Ricardo Freire
The most important history is the history we make today. -- Henry Ford
History does not usually make real sense until long afterward. -- Bruce Catton
Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. -- Robert Genn
In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences -- Alija Izetbegovic
I'm tired of reading about history, I want to make it. -- Mario Savio
There is no inevitability in history except as men make it. -- Felix Frankfurter
Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing. -- John Lanchester
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The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible. -- Anderson Cooper
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally. -- Hector Hugh Munro
History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned. -- Demetri Martin
Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing. -- Karl Marx

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