The Remaking Quotes

#1. In the progressive narrative, America is to blame, and the first offenders were the Founders themselves. The progressive conclusion is that the founding was "defective," setting up the progressive agenda to replace and move away from founding principles, what Obama called the "remaking" of America.

Dinesh D'Souza

#2. Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Anne Roiphe

#3. Holiness is the remaking of our inward and hidden desires and affections, when the Holy Spirit of God dwells in our mortal bodies.

Oswald Chambers

#4. The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood ...

Margaret Sanger

#5. If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have any conscience. It is one of the most disagreeable things connected with a person; and although it certainly does a great deal of good, it cannot be said to pay, in the long run; it would be much better to have less good and more comfort.

Mark Twain

#6. If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.

Marshall McLuhan

#7. Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

Adolf Hitler

#8. At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

Said Nursi

#9. Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Edmund Burke

#10. War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

David Wong

#11. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.b

Barack Obama

#12. Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Remaking the world wasn't always a stage show and a cheering crowd. Politics was just warfare by other means. The losers didn't get to hold rallies.

Alex London

#14. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

Harry S. Truman

#15. The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

Paulo Freire

#16. I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

Baltasar Kormakur

#17. I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

Gus Van Sant

#18. Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.

R.J. Rushdoony

#19. I think on the things - the issues that Pope Francis cares about - not just remaking the Church and in just sort of a more compassionate visage, but really on trying to move real policy.

Joy-Ann Reid

#20. I think I would love a shot at remaking 'The Philadelphia Story,' as daunting as it is. I still think it's fantastic. I love the '30s comedies because they're allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.

Michael Patrick King

#21. When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.

Park Chan-wook

#22. Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

Parker Palmer

#23. I envy the happiness of others ... I envy the sense of belonging ... I seem always to be remaking myself.

Richard Eyre

#24. When a leader used his power over the ruled for the purpose of settling scores and inflating his self-esteem, for remaking society according to his own grand designs, class warfare and genocide ensued.

Dean Koontz

#25. Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.

Yasmin Mogahed

#26. That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Stephan Jenkins

#27. That is marriage, he thought, remaking yourself in someone else's image. And who knew where the truth of it began or would end?

Ashley Hay

#28. In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

James Surowiecki

#29. We must lift ourselves up, dust ourselfs off and begin the work of remaking America.

Barack Obama

#30. You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

Orson Scott Card

#31. The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.

Bill McKibben

#32. I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly made movie off a classic. Why are you remaking something unless you have something better in mind?

Harry Belafonte

#33. In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.

Ross Parmenter

#34. We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

Umberto Eco

#35. The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

Pawel Pawlikowski

#36. The religions in my portfolio weren't useless after all, he thought, the power flowing from him and remaking the world. None of them were. They weren't all true.
But they all had truth.

Brandon Sanderson

#37. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself ...

Boris Pasternak

#38. You are remaking the world, Noah. Drawing by drawing

Jandy Nelson

#39. If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination - it is also its business to encourage politics to remake itself by remaking its images of the good life.

Richard Kearney

#40. There is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.

Paulo Freire

#41. My family of friends has kept me alive through lovers who have left, enterprises that have failed, and all too many stories that never got finished. That family has been part of remaking the world for me.

Dorothy Allison

#42. Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

Rob Sheffield

#43. Those bastards at the casting agency said I couldn't play Edward Cullen. Well, I'm going to show them. I'm making my own movie. And I'm going to star in it.'
'You're remaking Twilight?'
'Yes.

Lola Salt

#44. The sun is born again from the womb of night," he said. "See how the light spreads, remaking the world.

Elizabeth Peters

#45. Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

Monica Crowley

#46. It is highly likely that one of the two of them [ Donald Trump and Ted Cruz ] is going to be the nominee. This is a - look here, what is this - what this is really is a prescription for remaking the Republican Party.

Lawrence O'Donnell

#47. One Corinthians 15, one of Paul's longest sustained discussions and the climax of the whole letter, is about the creator God remaking the creation - not abandoning it, as Platonists of all sorts, including the gnostics, would have wanted.

N. T. Wright

#48. What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

Rick Yancey

#49. Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

Andrei Platonov

#50. You're a fairy princess beaming at me, remaking the world in your image. Wiping away everything that hurts. But someday everything that hurts will come back and kill you.

Sarah McCarry

#51. Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it

Marcus Aurelius