Quotes about making

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“The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.”

“I don't know. They could put up a warning sign or something. Hello. Welcome to Hindstrap. We will murder you in the night and eat your bloody face if you stay past sunset. Try the pies. Martna Maily makes them fresh daily.”

“Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”

“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.”

“Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.”

“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”

“I want to make Romeo jealous! I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.”

“When you reach out to hurting people, that’s when God is going to make sure your needs are supplied. When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.”

“I hope I remember everything," said Toni.
"You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.”

“In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.”

“They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.”

“I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”

“it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”

“Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.”

“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”

“Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.”

“Summer is the season of motion, winter is the season of form. In summer everything moves save the fixed and inert. Down the hill flows the west wind, making wavelets in the shorter grass and great billows in the standing hay; the tree in full leaf sways its heavy boughs below and tosses its leaves above; the weed by the gate bends and turns when the wind blows down the road. It is the shadow of moving things that we usually see, and the shadows are themselves in motion. The shadow of a branch, speckled through with light, wavers across the lawn, the sprawling shadow of the weed moves and sways across the dust.”

“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.”

“I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. Look at these things, then you find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance. A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!”

“Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”

“Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.”

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

“Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.”

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

“It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.”

“In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.”

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

“To love makes one solitary.”

“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie.”

“Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.”

“Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.”

“The way you make an omelet reveals your character.”

“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things, then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!”

“True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.”

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”

“Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind”

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

“A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.”

“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”

“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”

“Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings… It's something we make inside ourselves.”

“Solemnity, I don't know what it's for. I mean, what is the point of it? The two most beautiful memorial services that I've ever attended both had a lot of humor. It somehow freed us all and made the services inspiring and cathartic. But solemnity, it serves pomposity. The self important always know at some level of their consciousness that their egotism is going to be punctured by humor. That's why they see it as a threat! And so, dishonestly, they pretend that their deficiency makes their views more substantial.”

“When you make mistakes, whether they are from this life or another, learn from them- then they become opportunities”

“Pain or love or danger makes you real again….”

“Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.”

“If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.”

“When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.”

“No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.”

“In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?”

“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”

“The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.”

“I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.”

“I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”

“Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”

“Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody”

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

“Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.”

“I kissed his cheek, damp and salty. I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, not making love, just breathing the same air.”

“Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.”

“Look, sir, I know Angua. She's not the useless type. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that.”

“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”

“People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.”

“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”

“The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.”

“One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.”

“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”

“The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.”

“O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.”

“If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.”

“Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.”

“The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens.”

“In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.”

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”

“And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.”

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

“Make love, not war.”

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”

“Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.”

“What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.”

“Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”

“If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.”

“[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.”

“Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.”

“Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you.”

“So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all.”

“Only sick music makes money today.”

“Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”

“No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.”

“It's a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.”

“Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.”

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”