Quotes about making

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“Well, she was talking to me. That's enough to make anyone lose their temper. And I accused her of sleeping with my dad because he was the soundest evolutionary choice.”

“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”

“Back to prison. Maybe if you fake a heart attack, I can make a break for it. (Rose Hathaway says to Lissa Dragomir)”

“I tell myself he's better than he makes himself out to be, but, Tessa, what if he isn't?”

“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled Utopian.”

“Begin with the end in mind. Start with the end outcome and work backwards to make your dream possible.”

“Are you telling me you think Ranger's a superhero?'
Think about it. We don't know where he lives. We don't know anything about him.'
Superheroes are make-believe.'
Oh yeah?' Lula said. 'What about God?”

“Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.”

“The Beautiful Poem"

I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you.

Pissing a few moments ago
I looked down at my penis
affectionately.

Knowing it has been inside
you twice today makes me
feel beautiful.”

“If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.”

“But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?”

“The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”

“But you hate poetry!
Yes, but you make me want to write it.”

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

“Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.”

“Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his brain, he apparently cleared out all the areas where things like reason and common sense are stored.”

“People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does… And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.”

“It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.”

“Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.”

“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”

“I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.”

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

“Yay!' he said. 'Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!”

“You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.”

“He looks at my hand. “So it’s you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.””

“My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.”

“Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.”

“Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.”

“It is the responsibility of every adult… to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.”

“And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?”

“I wish- I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don't know how.”

“The time to make up your mind about people, is never.”

“Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.”

“An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.”

“That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.”

“If you make my children, make any child, feel bad for who they are, I will teach you why people fear mama grizzlies more than papa grizzlies.”

“Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?”

“If Aphrodite is angry, she might make you fall in love with a toy poodle, or a telephone pole.”

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”

“Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?"
I do face facts," Meg said.
They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.”

“Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside…”

“Ivory's the kind of girl who gets drunk and immediately starts slurring. I have a lot of friends like that, and I think it's because it makes me look 'more together.”

“The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”

“But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution”

“You make me thank god for every mistake I ever made, Because each one led me down the path that brought me to you.”

“If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”

“Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.”

“Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.”

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”

“If we wait until life is in order before making our decision, we'll never make any”

“All right," he said. "Since you ask so nicely."
"I wasn't asking."
"I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it clear.”

“It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.”

“Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.”

“The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.”

“Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.”

“I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy.”

“Lets dedicate ourselves to what the ancient greeks wrote so many years ago, to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that”

“Amy gritted her teeth. "King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot!"
Jonah looked at his dad. "Do we have souvenir chamber pots?"
"No." His dad whipped out his phone. "I'll make the call.”

“Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.”

“Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.”

“The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.”

“This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.”

“You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,
and I smile, and am silent,
and even my soul remains quiet:
it lives in the other world
which no one owns.
The peach trees blossom,
The water flows.”

“Watch it." he said at last. "I can make your life miserable." I gave him an icy smile. "You already have, and that's why i've got the advantage. You've done your worst but you haven't seen what i can do yet.”

“Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.”

“She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.”

“Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.”

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”

“If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.”

“And that is just the point… how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”

“Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.”

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”

“Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.”

“We two make banquets of the plainest fare
In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure…
For us life always moves with lilting measure
We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure”

“The gods do make playthings of us… but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.”

“TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.”

“Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.”

“Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.”

“So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.”

“Try to realize it's all within yourself,
No one else can make you change.
And to see you're really only very small
And life flows in within you and without you.”

“That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?"
"There is only one girl I care to make swoon," he said. "The question is, does she?"
She smiled at him. "She does.”

“Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.”

“If you always make the right decision, the safe decision,
the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.”

“Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.”

“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”

“An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.”

“Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.”

“Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes,
Clary thought. "So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.”

“It is man's intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. … Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations.”

“With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.”

“The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.”

“I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.”

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”

“Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.”

“If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”

“Those fruity drinks better have a lot of caffeine in them or I'll never make it through World Issues.”