Quotes about making

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“If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.”

“Insanity makes the rivers flow.”

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”

“Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.”

“I think people make their own faces, as they grow.”

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!”

“We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?”

“Sometimes a b. f. f makes you go W. T. F but without them we'd all be a little less richer in our lives.”

“In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.”

“Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.”

“What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.”

“We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck.
You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.”

“Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation… or your death.”

“You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.”

“My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation,
As my two eyes make one in sight.”

“Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”

“But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up!?!?
- You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!”

“I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them.”

“Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Chinese- 'Jonah Wizard Makes Your Ancestors Fat'.”

“If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.”

“Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.”

“I think when we make choices—for
each choice is individual of the choices we have made before—we must examine not
only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions.”

“There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.”

“Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..”

“He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.”

“The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.”

“And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.”

“For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.”

“in this room
the hours of love
still make shadows.”

“Excuse me, but aren't boys forbidden on this floor?' Macey said on our way to the suite.

'That's the advantage of being the only boy,' he (Zach) said. 'No one actually comes right out and makes rules like that.”

“You know anything about investigative work?"
"Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.”

“And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.”

“It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.”

“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.”

“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.”

“Akri infallible. Well, except for a couple of things, and we don’t talk about those ‘cause it makes akri cranky. I like that word ‘infallible.’ It just like me. Infallible. (Simi)”

“Things do not happen, we must make them happen”

“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”

“I figured we'd be too busy running for our lives than for him to make a move anyway. (Dana)”

“Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre," Tessa pointed out.
"No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?"
"You would make a very ugly woman."
"I would not. I would be stunning.”

“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.”

“You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.”

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”

“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”

“Things are always given to us when we need them… You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make it
yours. (Acheron)”

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error”

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

“Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.”

“There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.”

“I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.”

“You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.”

“Sad stories make good books”

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me.”

“How do you make yourself not like someone?”

“The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our mark. What will you choose to do?”

“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”

“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”

“Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.”

“If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.”

“… you expect me to fall on my back with my legs spread."
"Not necessarily…. You can fall on your hands and knees if you prefer. Or against the wall. Or on the kitchen counter. I suppose I might let you be on top, if you make it worth my while.”

“Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.”

“Don't choose the better guy, choose the guy that's gonna make you the better girl”

“Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.”

“Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?”

“Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.”

“Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.”

“But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?”

“Assume that every problem in your life is a lesson to make you stronger. Then you never feel like a victim.”

“Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked;”

“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”

“The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”

“I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.”

“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.”

“While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect, every single action a person takes has far-reaching consequences.”

“My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.”

“Baby carrots are making me gay.”

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”

“because being with you makes perfect sense”

“I'm trying to make myself invisible."

"That's an odd thing to attempt.”

“I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?”

“There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.”

“The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.”

“It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.”

“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”

“Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.”

“It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.”

“One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.”

“The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.”

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”

“Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”

“We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.”

“No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.”

“And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?”

“Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.”

“It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.”

“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”

“Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”

“It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world.”

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”