Quotes about making
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“You are beautiful,” he whispered to me. “If you say so.” “Do ye not believe me? Have I ever lied to you?” “That’s not what I mean. I mean—if you say it, then it’s true. You make it true.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Fiery Cross

Source: The Fiery Cross

Beauty

“Some marriages are made in heaven,
Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.”

Tom Robbins (1932) American writer

Marriage, People

“You can, t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery

-Tyler Perry
The Family That Preys”

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter

Variant: Are You Living or Just Existing?"

-Tyler Perry
The Family That Preys

Happiness, People, Family

“Don't be a sexist. They could find me a female instructor."
"In that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“know what you want. You want a story that won’t surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won’t make you see higher or further or differently.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending………”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Happiness

“Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Hope, Time, Baby

“Yeah. Floyd is his batman."
His what?"
Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."
You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.”

Robert B. Parker Mortal Stakes

Source: Mortal Stakes

Money, Time, Reading, Personality

“Most people fail to realize that in life, it’s not how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki book Rich Dad Poor Dad

Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Life, Money, People

“When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Fear

“Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Doctor Sally

Source: Doctor Sally

Marriage

“They're beautiful. But sad.'
Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

Sadness, Beauty

“Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.”

James Baldwin If Beale Street Could Talk

Source: If Beale Street Could Talk

People, School

“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”

Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist

Books, Reading

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Goodbye

“You must be poor.
why?
cuz ur not making any cents!”

Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Time

“Please, Kate. Suspend your dislike of me for a few moments and listen to what I have to say. It makes sense."
"I don't dislike you. It's an oversimplification.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

Sense

“Just then, my phone started ringing. The ring must have been damaged by the water as well, so now it had a high, keening note - kind of the sound I imagine a mermaid might make if you punched her in the face.”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Imagination, Water

“Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

Music, Feeling

“And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Time, Heart

“Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Decision, Past, Dead

“Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.”

Henning Mankell (1948–2015) Swedish crime writer, children's author, leftist activist and dramatist

People, Knowledge

“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“Lines don’t make beautiful women less beautiful”

Isabel Wolff

A Vintage Affair

Women, Beauty

“When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

People, Learning

“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.”

William James Is Life Worth Living?

"Is Life Worth Living?"
1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Faith, Personality

“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

Source: Like Life

“After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Loneliness

“This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.”

Michael Cunningham book A Home at the End of the World

Source: A Home at the End of the World

Future

“You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.”

Marian Wright Edelman (1939) American children's rights activist

Dogs

“You both… you both saved me?"

"Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Valiant

Heart

“The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. His impatience makes him feel that he is incontrovertibly, finally, an adult.”

Jhumpa Lahiri (1967) Short story writer, novelist

Feeling, Holiday, Christmas, Season

“Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Source: Role Models

Hunger, Pleasure, Youth, World

“She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Love, Marriage, Making love, Dreams

“You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Rush

Feeling, Thinking

“He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

“The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.”

Al Franken (1951) American comedian and politician

Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them (2003)

Money

“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“PROS: things that make it look like I could be

….

5. K'Vruck poked at me mentally, then said, "Ah, there you are." (WTF????)”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

“There are things of which I may not speak;
There are dreams that cannot die;
There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak,
And bring a pallor into the cheek,
And a mist before the eye.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Dreams, Strong, Heart

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

Love

“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”

Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer

Love, Pain

“A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Variant: It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Soul

“Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.”

Angie Sage (1952) English author and illustrator

Guy, Reading

“Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Love, People, Cry

“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.”

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party

11 April 1942.
Disputed, Hitler's Table Talks (1941-1944) (published 1953)

History

“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) French photographer

“Purity in body and heart
May please some--as for me, I make no boast.
For, as you know, no master of a household
Has all of his utensils made of gold;
Some are wood, and yet they are of use.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

Source: The Canterbury Tales

Heart

“How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

Love, Happiness, Thinking

“Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”

Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War

To his personal secretary John Colville the evening before Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. As quoted by Andrew Nagorski in The Greatest Battle (2007), Simon & Schuster, pp. 150–151 ISBN 0743281101
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Variant: If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Hell, Housing

“One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.”

Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac

“March: The Geese Return”, p. 18.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"

Spring, Summer

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Success
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)

Books, Confidence

“This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.”

Cammie McGovern

Source: Neighborhood Watch

Life

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

John Muir book My First Summer in the Sierra

Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 195
Source: 1860s, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869

Mountain

“This is making me crazy. I hate relying on other people to save me, I hate being clingy, I hate it, and every time you show up, I lean on you. - Matilda Scarlet Veronica Betty Vilma Goodnight”

Jennifer Crusie (1949) American writer

Source: Faking It

Hate, People, Time

“it makes such differenceyou read”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Reading

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”

John Hodgman (1971) American humorist

Life, Pain, Sense

“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

Hunger

“Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do… Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose… it's like your broken.”

Brian Selznick book The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

People, Sadness

“We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

Memory

“If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Love, Happiness

“Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.”

Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer

Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

Game, Idea, Personality

“I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.”

Temple Grandin (1947) USA-american doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist

Life, Money

“Might I make free with your lettuce, my lady?”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn't that make life a story?”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Life, World, Way, Understanding

“Do you ever think of anything
but sex?”
“Yes, I do. Sometimes I think of waking up next to you. Or making you laugh.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Mourns

Sex, Thinking

“When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Life

“The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”

Bryce Courtenay The Power of One

Variant: Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
Source: The Power of One

Courage, Courageous

“Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

Friendship, Books, Madness

“What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“How can I make him understand that he did not create me?
He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

Feeling, Understanding, Personality

“Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.”

David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist

Soul

“Guy? Mister? Mr. Goth Man, would you please wake up so I can leave? I really don't want to hang out in a closet with a dead man any longer than I have to, okay? C'mon, please, don't make this a Weekend at Bernie's thing! (Amanda)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Guy, Dead

“Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Dance

“There are generations yet unborn,
whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.”

Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker

“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

God, Thinking

“I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Children

“So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.”

Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist

God, Hope, Understanding, Chance

“We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

War, Peace

“Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

People, Flowers

“If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?… Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

In the House of Commons (18 April 1947), cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (1996), Jay, Oxford University Press, p. 93.
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Home, Time, Country

“Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer”

Linda Lael Miller (1949) American writer

Source: The Rustler

World, Way