Quotes about making
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“If you make everything difficult, the really hard things seem less so.”
With Napoleon in Russia: The Memoirs of General De Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza
"Kristi Yamaguchi looks back on 1992 Olympic gold, talks Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan" in TODAY https://www.today.com/news/kristi-yamaguchi-looks-back-1992-olympic-gold-talks-tonya-harding-t122373 (6 February 2018)
Original: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/859221-the-media-only-writes-about-the-sinners-and-the-scandals
“The first step of knowing yourself is being fearless to make mistakes.”
“Commerce unites men and make them; therefore it is fatal to despotic power.”
Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's War Maxims: With His Social and Political Thoughts (1804-15), Gale & Polden, (1899) p. 150
Quoted in Pope John Paul II, Homily for the Canonization of Father Leopold of Castelnovo (16 October 1983) https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/it/homilies/1983/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19831016_leopoldo-da-castelnovo.html.
Original: (it) Nascondiamo tutto, anche quello che può avere apparenza di dono di Dio, affinché non se ne faccia mercato. A Dio solo l'onore e la gloria! Se fosse possibile, noi dovremmo passare sulla terra come un'ombra che non lascia traccia di sé.
In 1980, during his inspection tour in Tibet, as quoted in Southern Mongolia: Self-Determination Activist Tortured in Prison and Kept Under House Arrest https://unpo.org/article/19652?id=19652
“The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.”
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
2 quotes in Monet's letter to Frédéric Bazille from Honfleur, July 15, 1864; as cited in Mary M. Gedo (2013) Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art. p. 114-15 / p. 60
1860s
[Eubank, William, Ash Thorp, Episode 182 — William Eubank, Interview (event occurs at 43:37–43:50), https://www.thecollectivepodcast.com/episodes/182-william-eubank, MP3; 1h 44m, The Collective Podcast, Los Angeles, California, June 25, 2018, 2018, June]
Source: 1980 to Roy Jenkins < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHk9zoG6PXw
Source: 1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)
Context: When they get ready to settle it, we hope they will let us know. Public opinion settles every question here, any policy to be permanent must have public opinion at the bottom, something in accordance with the philosophy of the human mind as it is. The property basis will have its weight. The love of property and a consciousness of right or wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often make a man's course seem crooks, his conduct a riddle.
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20190527120634/https://www.concisenews.global/2018/08/14/bisola-aiyeola-inspires-fans-with-lessons-from-mistakes/ Bisola talks on learning from every mistakes.
Source: Inaugural address (15 August 1956)
Source: Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 2013)
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
“Let girls grow up to become woman and make a choice, what they want.”
Source: Genevieve spoke up against early child marriage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfqJe9NmaZs/here in "Breaking Views" with UNICEF in 2014.
Original: (it) Non pensare che la vita non riservi più nulla di bello per te: affronta i problemi e goditi gli attimi, concentrando la tua attenzione esclusivamente su ciò che ti fa sentire vivo.
Source: prevale.net
“Soon as they like you make 'em unlike you
Cause kissing people's ass is so unlike you.”
I Am a God
Lyrics, Yeezus (2013)
“Why would she make calls out the blue?
Now I'm awake, sleepless in you.”
Say You Will
Lyrics, 808s & Heartbreak (2008)
Source: As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act III, movie XV, (1623)
2022, Make the war crimes of the Russian military the last manifestation of this evil on earth (3 April 2022)
1980
Quiero desarrollar mi sentido de la estética sin dejarme influir demasiado. En un vestido busco que sea personal y que me transmita mi propia inspiración, que me haga parecer y sentir única.
From the interview of Begoña Clérigues, Cómo vestir a una actriz para la alfombra roja https://www.lasprovincias.es/revista-valencia/vestir-actriz-alfombra-20220208190641-nt.html, lasprovincias.es, 9 February 2022.
Context: Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight? A man may do both, said Aragorn. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!
“Imperfections make us unique in the world.”
Original: Le imperfezioni ci rendono unici al mondo.
Source: prevale.net
“She makes me feel like it's raining outside”
da "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket")
“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”
Source: I Capture the Castle
“The truth shall make you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
Source: Gideon's Sword
According to Ruskin scholar George P. Landow, there is no evidence that this quotation or its variants can be found in any of Ruskin's works.
[Landow, George P., A Ruskin Quotation?, VictorianWeb.org, 2007-07-27, http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/quotation.html, 2013-01-07]
Disputed
“It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself”
From books
Source: Jean Vanier, Community And Growth, 1979
“You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.”
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 142
“Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.”
Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
“Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.”
Source: I Capture the Castle