Quotes about making

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“if you’re making sense, you’ve just unmade confusion.”

“The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.”

“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future”

“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”

“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”

“The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.”

“Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.”

“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”

“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

“Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality… Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.”

“You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?”

“We spent our lives making livings.”

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”

“… some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.”

“You're dangerous."he says.
Why?"
Because you make me believe in the impossible."
— Simone Elkeles (Rules of Attraction)”

“the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!”

“But listen to me when I say this. You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone - not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee - push you around.”

“The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.”

“A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.”

“If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down”

“I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.”

“Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.
Of course those who write short books have even less to say.”

“Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.”

“Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.”

“When a person knows and can't
make the others understand, what does he do?”

“Health makes good propaganda. “'Proof' that women's activities outside the home are detrimental to the health and welfare of themselves, their families and the country as a whole” lent impetus, writes Ann Oakley, to the nineteenth-century cult of domesticity. The ovaries were seen as collective property rather than the woman's own business, as the face and body outline are seen today. Who can argue with health?”

“Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.”

“You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can’t be tamed or topped. Don’t mistake indulgence for weakness.”

“Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”

“Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.”

“Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.”

“Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?”

“It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.”

“My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.”

“Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”

“I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.”

“Such is human memory… you forget the truth and believe what makes you feel better.”

“Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?”

“You wouldn't say ' You've got the crappest eyes I've ever seen. Your eyes make me physically sick.”

“For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do…
[Lucifer]”

“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”

“Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge.”

“Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.”

“Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow”

“Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.”

“What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.”

“Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”

“She had wondered, when he’d looked into her eyes and said that he’d had to learn to make do without mirrors in the Wild Hunt, whose eyes he’d been looking into for all those years. Who’d been his mirror.
Now she knew.”

“There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.”

“What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you.”

“When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do.”

“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”

“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.”

“When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.”

“That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.”

“No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.”

“Hello, I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind.
If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman.”

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”

“Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there's no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”

“Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.”

“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”

“Don't make everyone know about your sadness.”

“Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.”

“Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make Tessa love him.”

“if they make me watch that movie one more time, I will fall down on my knees and beg for mercy”

“Three things no one has ever said about me:

You make it look so easy.

You are very mysterious.

You need to take yourself more seriously.”

“Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.”

“A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.”

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.”

“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”

“… no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.”

“The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”

“He was so damn perverse, he preferred to dream it than to make it come true.”

“The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.”

“No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.”

“… When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.”

“Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”

“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.”

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”

“The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.”

“A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader.”

“When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.”

“Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?”

“I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me… no one can do that.”

“Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down

on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity

i hate you”

“Tell me a story.
In this century, and moment, of mania,
Tell me a story.
Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.
The name of the story will be Time,
But you must not pronounce its name.
Tell me a story of deep delight.”

“These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.”

“Excruciating agony makes me cranky.”

“and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.”

“sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.”

“You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.”

“If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.”

“Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized… That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.”

“Your time's running out, Valkyrie." Fegley gave another wallop before he squeaked off.

Regin narrowed her eyes, watching him till he was out of sight. "One day I'm going to make that little piggy cry all the way home.”

“When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.”

“People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don´t even notice anymore…”

“Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.”