Quotes about making

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“No, none of us seem so very real.

We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other.

Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.”

“Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.”

“No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake”

“On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.”

“Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one… I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.”

“Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most?
That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost?
That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain?
That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?”

“Vengeance burns, Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.”

“Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with… It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.”

“Oh, I'll enjoy myself. I want to make sure you enjoy yourself."
"Why?" I said.
"If you enjoy yourself, then there's a better chance you'll want to be with me again.”

“I would rather make my name then inherit it.”

“Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up”

“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”

“Heaven on Earth is a choice you
must make, not a place you must find.”

“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”

“Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.”
“How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.”

“Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake. Like on the seventh day God looked down, "There it is. My Creation, perfect and holy in all ways. Now I can rest. [Gives shocked expression] Oh my Me! I left fuckin' pot everywhere. I should never have smoked that joint on the third day. Hehe, that was the day I created the possum. Still gives me a chuckle. But if I leave pot everywhere, that's gonna give people the impression they're supposed to … use it. Now I have to create Republicans."”

“A drop of ink may make a million think.”

“Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.”

“Who will guard the guards? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?”

“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”

“What an alliance, huh? A Dark-Hunter and a Spathi united to guard an Apollite. Who would have ever imagined? (Wulf)
Love makes strange bedfellows. (Acheron)
I thought that was politics. (Wulf)
It’s both. (Acheron)”

“The exceeding brightness of this early sun
Makes me conceive how dark I have become.”

“Forcing him to talk about feelings all the time will not only make you seem needy, it will eventually make him lose respect. And when he loses respect, he’ll pay even less attention to your feelings.”

“But the problem is to make the soul into a monster”

“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.”

“Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.”

“People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.”

“How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?”

“Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.”

“It's what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.”

“Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.”

“Oh, goodie! I get to make the redheaded goddess mad! (Simi)”

“The cemetery is an open space among the ruins covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.”

“Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.”

“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”

“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”

“You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.”

“Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.”

“TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”

“Hey, you've still got your endangered hymen. Which means you'll make it to closing credits - I'm s. o. l.”

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

“There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.”

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”

“I guess what I'm trying to say is that you two make me believe that true love really exists. And that even the darkest hours can't take that away.”

“… there's no such thing as an underwear elf. Even when it goes missing, it's somewhere in the room. So make sure you find it." -- DARK OF NIGHT by Suzanne Brockmann”

“Someday, you will make an excellent guardian ba.”
“Thanks,” I muttered. “Can’t wait to be poultry forever.”

“Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.”

“The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”

“I make rude gestures at nuns”

“Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.”

“We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don’t spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.”

“I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”

“People make their own reality, goddess. We hate and we love for reasons that are known only to us.”

“…when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…”

“Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.”

“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”

“What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!”

“We make our own truths and lies…. Truths are often lies and lies truths…”

“the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.”

“You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you”

“There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.”

“We could've done this anywhere, but I wanted you to see me, to see this," he said, gesturing at the room. "I wanted you to know where I come from, what I am under the choices I make.”

“Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.”

“If killing yourself is not an option anymore,
you have to sink into the darkness instead,
and make something out of it.”

“The vamp in McMann’s stared at me. I guess he didn’t like the Goth look. Most of them don’t; somehow they think I’m making fun of them.
Which I totally am.”

“What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.”

“Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.”

“I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way.
~Train Heartnet”

“Kuh-laire, Is cam a fattening Girl Scout Cookie layered with peanut butter and a chocolate coating?
No.
Then dont make him a tagalong!”

“Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to- "
"SIMON!”

“You know,” he said, “this is why I love you so much.”
Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. “What do you mean?”
You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand.”

“I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.”

“The perfect song on the perfect drive to make you feel infinite.”

“I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.”

“You make me laugh like a loon on loon tablets!”

“There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.”

“You're a writer. Make it up.”

“… only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.”

“You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to.”

“You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?”

“When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…”

“Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.”

“I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—
As if my Brain had split—
I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—
But could not make it fit.”

“People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they’re wrong: Proximity makes the heart grow fonder.”

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.”

“Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.”

“A beautiful woman can make herself
look ugly in the eyes of a man if she is very insecure.”

“Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them.

-Royce Westmoreland”

“Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”

“If I ever leave this place-
I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.”

“To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge.”

“I wouldn't be able to do anything with my vampire horde except make it run around in a herd, but it would be a very impressive herd.”

“We can’t make a portal—”
“We’ve got a flying boat,” Carter offered.”

“I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.”

“When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.”

“Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.”