Quotes about making

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“Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean—make sure they know what they mean!”

“I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.”

“What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe.”

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”

“Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer”

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.”

“There's power in the truth, just like there's power in making the right choice”

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

“(About sweeping)….
What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.”

“Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.”

“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

“You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.”

“It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.”

“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.”

“Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry”

“We make war that we may live in peace.”

“What does not kill him, makes him stronger.”

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”

“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.”

“Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.”

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

“… Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?”

“What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.”

“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

“Say you just can't live that negative way
You know what I mean
Make way for the positive day
Cause it's a new day.”

“The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.”

“Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.”

“Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car”

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”

“A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time… but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.”

“The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.”

“Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night…”

“she may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters?”

“Don't make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It's not like that. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound every day.”

“Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.”

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life."

The most importnant truth in my life, if you ask me, and he got it all right”

“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. If he only shows in his work that he has searched, and re-searched, for the way to put over lies, he would never accomplish anything.”

“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”

“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another”

“So does that mean you're going to fall in love with me again?
What makes you think i ever stopped?”

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.”

“Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.”

“If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?”

“I choose gentleness… Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.”

“If a man, having lashed two hulls together, is crossing a river, and an empty boat happens along and bumps into him, no matter how hot-tempered the man may be, he will not get angry. But if there should be someone in the other boat, then he will shout out to haul this way or veer that. If his first shout is unheeded, he will shout again, and if that is not heard, he will shout a third time, this time with a torrent of curses following. In the first instance, he wasn't angry; now in the second he is. Earlier he faced emptiness, now he faces occupancy. If a man could succeed in making himself empty, and in that way wander through the world, then who could do him harm?”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.”

“How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?”

“Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.”

“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”

“A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.”

“What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.”

“That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song”

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“But remember this, Japanese boy… airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.”

“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.”

“What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.”

“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.”

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”

“The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.”

“You make the decision: Whom did God punish?”

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”

“Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better”

“Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies.”

“Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone… the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks”

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”

“The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.”

“Make today worth remembering.”

“They have been promising us for a long time — in every culture — that they are going to take us to heaven. They promise heaven because they are making a hell out of this place.”

“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”

“It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.”

“O my body, make of me always a man who questions!”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”

“You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.”

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”

“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”

“From what we get, we can make a living. What we give; however, makes a life.”

“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”

“You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”

“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

“It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.”

“Making money isn't hard in itself… What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.”

“There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”

“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.”

“Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.”

“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”

“When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace”

“What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe.
It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.”

“Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!”