Quotes about making

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“Inspiration is God making contact with itself.”

“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”

“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”

“HOBBES:
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.”

“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”

“He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire”

“Just because it makes no sense doesn't mean it's not good advice.”

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”

“Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand… well, God put a lot of thought into making you.”

“If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.”

“We are none of us perfect, and… we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are”

“Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.”

“If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.”

“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but He does what is still more wonderful: He makes saints out of sinners.”

“She had changed him. The ice was in his eyes and in his heart, like he had predicted with that song, but now they were deep embedded there, all the pain of the world. Not pain to make you feel for somebody else but pain to make you stop feeling.”

“Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”

“For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.”

“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.”

“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”

“Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.”

“The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.”

“We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.”

“Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly”

“The things that make us happy make us wise.”

“I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.”

“But we all must be true to our own nature. Acting as anyone other than yourself merely brings you pain and makes you appear ashamed of who and what you are. Others will feed off that shame, and soon it will be all that you are.”

“Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.”

“You can present the material, but you can't make me care.”

“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”

“That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.”

“What good are insights? They only make things worse.”

“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”

“People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.”

“I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.”

“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

“Don’t spend your time on and give your heart to any guy who makes you wonder about anything
related to his feelings for you”

“I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.”

“Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.”

“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.”

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”

“There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?”

“Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?”

“and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.”

“No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.”

“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”

“Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.”

“If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.”

“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.”

“Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron”

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.”

“If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs.”

“Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.”

“And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.”

“One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.”

“To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.”

“This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.”

“It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.”

“Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.”

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”

“… every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.”

“Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.”

“Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.”

“When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.”

“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”

“In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier.
We all grieve alone.”

“Take chances! Get messy! Make mistakes!”

“That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.”

“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.”

“What about you three, where are you going?"
Even before Halt answered, Will knew what he was going to say. But that didn't make it any less terrifying or blood-chilling when the words were said.
"We're going after the Kalkara.”

“When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.”

“I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.”

“I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.”

“Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends…that's what makes them friends…
Pretty Little Liars”

“We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make promises we don’t keep.”

“My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!”

“When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.”

“In everyone there sleeps
A sense of life lived according to love.
To some it means the difference they could make
By loving others, but across most it sweeps,
As all they might have done had they been loved.
That nothing cures.”

“Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.”

“We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make -- and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.”

“Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.”

“Where. Is. He?" Alphonse repeated, although it sounded more like "Don't make me eat your face.”

“If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.”

“Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.”

“It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.”

“Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.”

“It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.”

“… the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.”

“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.”

“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”

“When she orgasmed, she said his name. Twice. And didn’t it make him glad that even though he had no voice, his ears worked just fine. –JM”

“I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments”

“For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by. Does this make any sense?”

“If she wanted my money, I'd give her every cent. If she wanted another man, I'd make her forget him”

“Making a spell is easy. It's trusting you did it right that's hard.”

“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.”

“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”

“That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.”

“Did you read the instructions?” He shook his head. “Why, were you afraid they’d take your man card away?” “Are you going to help me or just make fun of me?” “Can’t I do both?”

“Orion nodded, then asked, “Dwarf cheese?”
“Cheese made by dwarfs.”
“Oh,” said Orion, relieved. “They make it. It’s not actually…”
“No. What a horrible thought.”
“Exactly.”