“We make destiny with every turn, every choice.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Valley of Silence
Quotes about making page 16
“Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.”
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) French artist
posthumous quotes, The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas', (1961)
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: Oh My Goth
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Love in the Afternoon
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
A poem about his match with George Foreman, known as the Rumble in the Jungle (1974)
Context: Last night I had a dream, When I got to Africa,
I had one hell of a rumble.
I had to beat Tarzan’s behind first,
For claiming to be King of the Jungle.
For this fight, I’ve wrestled with alligators,
I’ve tussled with a whale.
I done handcuffed lightning
And throw thunder in jail.
You know I’m bad.
just last week, I murdered a rock,
Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick.
I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.
I’m so fast, man,
I can run through a hurricane and don't get wet.
When George Foreman meets me,
He’ll pay his debt.
I can drown the drink of water, and kill a dead tree.
Wait till you see Muhammad Ali.
“There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful”
Sarah Kane book 4.48 Psychosis
Source: 4.48 Psychosis
“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Source: Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
“Your life is just about craving, and making something else tremendously more important than you.”
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
Source: Mystic's Musings
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: What I Believe
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
“Don't make love to your problems-- they'll never give you back the satisfaction you give them.”
Robyn Carr American writer
Source: Forbidden Falls
“There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.”
Diana Vreeland (1903–1989) American magazine editor
May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist
Source: Journal of a Solitude
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer
Source: The Great Book of Amber
“The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Zettel
“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.”
John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: The Diaries of Adam and Eve
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
Letter of Instructions to the Captains of the Virginia Regiments (29 July 1759)
1750s
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book Voices of the Night
St. 7.
A Psalm of Life (1839)
Source: Voices of the Night
“A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the
woman he loves”
Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“And make death proud to take us.”
William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Love can make you do things that you never thought possible.”
Phil Collins (1951) English musician, songwriter and actor
“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), chapter 3
Context: Her hot black eyes looked mad. "I don't see what there is to be cagey about," she snapped. "And I don't like your manners."
"I'm not crazy about yours," I said. "I didn't ask to see you. You sent for me. I don't mind your ritzing me or drinking your lunch out of a Scotch bottle. I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me."
“by making himself a priest made himself a demon.”
Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.”
Ajahn Chah (1918–1992) thai Buddhist monk
“If you think a thing is impossible, you'll only make it impossible.”
Bruce Lee book Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
“Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is.”
Daniel Handler (1970) American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Snicket
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 1, ch. 10
Atticus Finch & Maudie Atkinson
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it.
“Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Henry Beston book Northern Farm
Source: Northern Farm
“A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.”
Daniel Wallace (1959) American author
Source: The Kings and Queens of Roam
Frédéric Bastiat book The Law
Source: The Law (1850)
Context: Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
“It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in't.”
William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale
Source: The Winter's Tale
“She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.”
Tad Williams book River of Blue Fire
Source: River of Blue Fire
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
“It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.”
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in The Biblical Museum: A Collection of Notes Explanatory, Homiletic, and Illustrative on the Holy Scriptures, Especially Designed for the Use of Ministers, Bible-students, and Sunday-school Teachers (1873) http://books.google.com/books?id=aJ8CAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA331&dq=%22only+necessary+to+make+war+with+five+things%22&ei=8jG1SZKiIIGklQTL0KHHDg by James Comper Gray, Vol. V
Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
“It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game
Source: The Angel's Game
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.”
Abbie Hoffman (1936–1989) American political and social activist
Source: Revolution for the Hell of It (1968), p. 188.
Vandana Shiva (1952) Indian philosopher
Source: Quoted in Woman power to the fore, by R.S. Binuraj, The Hindu (1 July 2017)
Andy Warhol book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 7: Time
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.”
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Never do anything wrong to make a friend or keep one”
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War
As quoted in Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography (1986) by Robert A. Caro and William Knowlton Zinsser. Also quoted in Truman by David McCullough (1992), p. 44, New York: Simon & Schuster.-
Context: You must be frank with the world; frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right … Never do anything wrong to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so, is dearly purchased at a sacrifice. Deal kindly, but firmly with all your classmates; you will find it the policy which wears best. Above all do not appear to others what you are not.
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Variant: We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
“The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
As quoted in Eleanor : The Years Alone (1972) by Joseph P. Lash
“When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too.”
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
