Quotes about making

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“Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl.”

“Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.”

“What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes.”

“I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.”

“Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.”

“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.”

“There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful”

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”

“Words make love with one another.”

“Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”

“I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.”

“Your life is just about craving, and making something else tremendously more important than you.”

“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.”

“I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make
it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll
make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark
the present.”

“There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.”

“I like joy; I want to be joyous. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that`s all I want. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.”

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

“Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.”

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”

“Don't make love to your problems-- they'll never give you back the satisfaction you give them.”

“There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.”

“It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.”

“When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.”

“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.”

“Pain can give you sight or make you blind.”

“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”

“The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”

“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”

“Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.”

“Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?"

She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door.

"You hardly ever make the jump.”

“Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.”

“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.”

“The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.”

“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”

“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”

“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”

“You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew… God doesn't make the world this way. We do.”

“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;”

“Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.”

“A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the
woman he loves”

“And make death proud to take us.”

“What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.”

“You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.”

“You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.”

“Love can make you do things that you never thought possible.”

“You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.”

“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”

“We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music”

“I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.”

“I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.”

“by making himself a priest made himself a demon.”

“If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.”

“If you think a thing is impossible, you'll only make it impossible.”

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”

“Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is.”

“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.”

“I muse again on the dogmatic assertion which I often make that the countryman's relation to Nature must never be anything else but an alliance… When we begin to consider Nature as something to be robbed greedily like an unguarded treasure, or used as an enemy, we put ourselves in thought outside of Nature, of which we are inescapably a part.”

“A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.”

“It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.”

“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.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.”

“It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in't.”

“She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.”

“Reading activates and exercises the mind.
Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts.
Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.”

“It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.”

“It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.”

“You believe in God?" demanded Billy Karma.

"I believe in thirty-seven separate and distinct gods," answered Argyle proudly. "That puts me thirty-six ahead of you."

"It makes you a pagan."

"It makes you a man of limited vision," said Argyle.”

“Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.”

“It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.”

“Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath… It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.”

“Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.”

“What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.”

“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.”

“The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.”

“We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.”

“I've not much interest in the important things of life. Only in the beautiful things. Just this lilac here makes me happy.”

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." That's one of my favorite things to say. "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me." So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.”

“Love is rarely flawless,” Carter pointed out. “Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect.”

“You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.”

“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”

“In my dreams I kiss your cunt, your sweet wet cunt. In my thoughts I make love to you all day long.”

“Staying true to what makes you happy, because that always ends up producing the best result.”

“You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.”

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

“the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.”

“Never do anything wrong to make a friend or keep one”

“It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.”

“Whenever they say it can’t be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.”

“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”

“Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.”

“The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.”

“turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.”

“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”

“When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too.”

“Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.”

“Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.”

“She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.”