Quotes about making

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“Do you normally turn up in gentlemen's bedrooms in the middle of the night? If I'd known that, I would have campaigned harder to make sure Charlotte let you stay.”

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”

“Shall I call the others back in?"
He nodded. "Why ask me? It's all of you who are making the decisions.”

“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?”

“If it’s going to be two against one, make sure you aren’t the one.”

“Death Makes Angels of us all.”

“Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.”

“i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.”

“I say that there is no role for women—there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.”

“Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.”

“You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.”

“… The queen's mocking laughter cut in. "is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?"

"Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt—a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom.”

“Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.”

“She's my baby girl, Quinn. I want love for her. Real love. The kind that makes a man crazy inside.

-Gibraltar to Quinn”

“He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.”

“It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.”

“Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.”

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

“Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.”

“My heart is warm with friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.”

“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”

“But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.”

“My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am.”

“The Three Oddest Words

When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word nothing,
I make something no nonbeing can hold.”

“Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.”

“Part 5

The Voice-
Make that my voice”

“No Daimon gets out of here alive. (They hit the invisible wall and rebounded off it.) Man. It really makes you feel for the bug on the windshield, doesn’t it? (Acheron)”

“Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.”

“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”

“I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you’re through.”

“Now is a time for change, a time to become the greatest version of yourself. And a time to to make your grandest vision of the world.”

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”

“You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.”

“It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me”

“The two important things that I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.”

“The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.”

“We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.”

“so whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”

“Look, don’t get me wrong. I worship the ground this guy walks on. I’m excited to meet him tonight. I’m dying to meet him tonight. If he wanted to carry me off and make me his love slave, I’d do it, so long as I got advance copies of his books.”

“A soulmate is the person who makes your sould grow the most.”

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true… it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.”

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”

“The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.”

“Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.”

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

“Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.”

“Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.”

“Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Wisdom is the science of happiness.”

“i can win but you cant lose, this makes us all even in our ways.”

“Jacoblike a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower.”

“Remember, no matter how dark the night, there is always a happy ending. But first, you have to make it through the night.”

“I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”

“Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.”

“… we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.”

“Cities make you afraid.”

“… yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.”

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.”

“Nico di Angelo has warned them: the House of Hades would stir their worst memories, make them see things and hear things from the past Their ghosts would become restless.”

“I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.”

“What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you?
Thank you. You are very kind.”

“It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward.”

“Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.”

“You don't have to do this."
"I think I do," Julian said. "I remember making a vow to that affect."
"Whither thou goest, i will go, whatever stupid thing you do, i shall do also'." Emma said. "Was that the vow?”

“It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.”

“She's still doing it, pushing me into situations I can't handle, making me cope. She knows I can't cope.”

“Well," I said finally, knowing he was waiting, "you make me laugh."
He nodded. "And?"
"You're pretty good-looking."
"Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful."
"You want to be beautiful?" I asked him.
"Are you saying I'm not?”

“But I wasn't happy… when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt].
'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace…
The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me… three more men does make a lot of difference.”

“We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.”

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”

“The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.”

“There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.”

“You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.”

“Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.”

“Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost,” George said. “Now that’s what I call a busy evening.”
Lockwood nodded. “To think some people just watch television.”

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”

“I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.”

“People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.”

“Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.”

“The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”

“Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true.”

“You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.”

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.”

“I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.”

“Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over…”

“Learn from the mistakes of others you won't have time to make them all your self”

“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It's easy. Most people pass over incrementally, making a series of perforations in the membrane between here and there until an opening exists. And who can resist an opening?”

“Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.”

“I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.”

“Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.”

“The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.”

“You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.”

“She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.”

“I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.”

“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”

“When the Dead do walk, seek water’s run,
For this the Dead will always shun.
Swift river’s best or broadest lake
To ward the Dead and haven make.
If water fails thee, fire’s thy friend;
If neither guards, it will be thy end.”