Quotes about making
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“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 in making you.”

Khaled Hosseini (1965) novelist

God

“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.”

Woody Allen Without Feathers

"Selections from the Allen Notebooks".
Without Feathers (1975)

God

“You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Ever After

Coffee, Personality

“Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom?”

Kate DiCamillo The Magician's Elephant

Source: The Magician's Elephant

Love, Truth, World, Star

“Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Source: Selected Poems

Anger, Dead

“There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“Just for you non-sea-god types out there, don't go swimming in New York Harbor. It may not be as filthy as it was in my mom's day, but that water will still probably make you grow a third eye or have mutant children when you grow up.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

God, Children, Moms, Water

“Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Memory

“perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.”

Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children

Source: Midnight's Children

“Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.”

Guy Kawasaki (1954) American businessman and author

People, Passion

“Meeting someone you like and dating him is supposed to make you feel better, not worse.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Feeling

“It's what's inthat makes you happy or unhappy.”

Agatha Christie book A Murder Is Announced

Source: A Murder Is Announced

Happiness

“Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

People

“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

Song of Solomon (1977)

“My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

People, Faith, Beauty, Christ

“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“That's all the glory my heart is after,
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.”

Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564)
Context: Readers, friends, if you turn these pages
Put your prejudice aside,
For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous,
Nothing sick, or bad — or contagious.
Not that I sit here glowing with pride
For my book: all you'll find is laughter:
That's all the glory my heart is after,
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

Men, Courage, Laughter, Heart

“I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!”

Loretta Chase book Lord of Scoundrels

Source: Lord of Scoundrels

Love, Heart

“Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Tear

“It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Men

Source: Little Men

Happiness, World, Heart

“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter

Life, People

“I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Law

“It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.”

Cecily von Ziegesar (1970) American writer

Source: I Like It Like That

“Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.”

José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere

Source: Noli Me Tángere

Country

“The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?”

Robin McKinley book Sunshine

Source: Sunshine

“They make a desolation and call it peace.”

Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) poet

Peace

“You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such thing as royal blood. I believe we are what we make ourselves, and as such, you, Crown Princess, are nothing.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

Parent, Princess

“Just do something. You might make a mistake, then you can fix it. But if you do nothing, you can't fix anything. And your life might turn out full of regrets.”

Jenny Colgan (1972) British writer

Source: The Little Shop of Happy Ever After

Life

“The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Love, Men, Fear, Feeling

“Remember, attraction is only one part of a relationship. Loyalty, commitment, responsibility and maturity make up the rest.”

Ruth Westheimer (1928) American sex therapist

Parting, Loyalty

“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

Address to World's Salesmanship Congress http://books.google.com/books?id=w0IOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA286&dq=%22want+to+make+enemies,+try+to+change+something%22, Detroit (10 July 1916) 1910s

Change, Leadership

“Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.”
“Stop making up names for him.”
“What about Count Crackula?”
“Just stop.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Last Breath

“But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and one time she even cried. I didn't know how anyone could make such a big deal about books.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Books, Time, Reading, Summer

“I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Happiness, Books, Drawing

“If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love, Life, Money, Family

“I know all about dreams that make you want to scream.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

Dreams

“He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

Feeling, Flying

“They won’t get you without getting us and believe me, we’re not about to make our enemies happy and die here. (Nykyrian)
Damn straight. We have too many people to continue pissing off. (Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Happiness, People

“I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.”

Booker T. Washington book Up from Slavery

Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them
Source: Up from Slavery

Love, Men, Strong

“The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation… Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.”

Bernard Cornwell book The Last Kingdom

Source: The Last Kingdom

Men

“A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Source: Advice to a Young Critic

Fools, Learning

“We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.”

Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) Austrian-American psychoanalyst

Source: Children of the Future: On the Prevention of Sexual Pathology

Life, People, Communication

“Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Freedom, Personality

“Maybe—just maybe—Sadie had my best interests at heart. (I just caught her making faces at me, so maybe not.)”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

Heart

“God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

God, Time

“Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a
mistake.”

John Cleese (1939) actor from England

Fear

“When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.”

Piers Anthony Golem in the Gears

Source: Golem in the Gears

Books, Reading

“As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Source: My Life on the Road

Love, Hate

“Sometimes living can be hard, but it's only because we're alive that we can make each other laugh, cry… be happy! In this world, if that's not a reason for being born in this world… I don't know what is!”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Happiness, World, Cry

“Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

“Now he had answers, but they weren't doing what answers were supposed to do: they weren't making things simpler or easier. They weren't helping.”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

Help

“But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

Life, God, Way, Passion

“And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Pain

“To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.”

Avital Ronell (1952) American philosopher

“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

Interview on CBS TV (20 February 1977).

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Love

“He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps.
"I win.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Way

“Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

Feeling, Drink

“Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Feeling

“Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

Anonymous ancient proverb, wrongly attributed to Euripides. The version here is quoted as a "heathen proverb" in Daniel, a Model for Young Men (1854) by William Anderson Scott. The origin of the misattribution to Euripides is unknown. Several variants are quoted in ancient texts, as follows. Variants and derived paraphrases: For cunningly of old was the celebrated saying revealed: evil sometimes seems good to a man whose mind a god leads to destruction. Sophocles, Antigone 620-3, a play pre-dating any of Euripides' surviving plays. An ancient commentary explains the passage as a paraphrase of the following, from another, earlier poet. When a god plans harm against a man, he first damages the mind of the man he is plotting against. Quoted in the scholia vetera to Sophocles' Antigone 620ff., without attribution. The meter (iambic trimeter) suggests that the source of the quotation is a tragic play. For whenever the anger of divine spirits harms someone, it first does this: it steals away his mind and good sense, and turns his thought to foolishness, so that he should know nothing of his mistakes. Attributed to "some of the old poets" by Lycurgus of Athens in his Oratio In Leocratem [Oration Against Leocrates], section 92. Again, the meter suggests that the source is a tragic play. These lines are misattributed to the much earlier semi-mythical statesman Lycurgus of Sparta in a footnote of recent editions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and other works. The gods do nothing until they have blinded the minds of the wicked. Variant in 'Dictionary of Quotations (Classical) (1906), compiled by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 433. Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad. Publilius Syrus, Maxim 911 The devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. As quoted by Athenagoras of Athens [citation needed] quem Iuppiter vult perdere, dementat prius. "Whom Jupiter wishes to destroy, he first sends mad"; neo-Latin version. Similar wording is found in James Duport's Homeri Gnomologia (1660), p. 234. "A maxim of obscure origin which may have been invented in Cambridge about 1640" -- Taylor, The Proverb (1931). Probably a variant of the line "He whom the gods love dies young", derived from Menander's play The Double Deceiver via Plautus (Bacchides 816-7). quem (or quos) Deus perdere vult, dementat prius. Whom God wishes to destroy, he first sends mad. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. This variant is spoken by Prometheus, in The Masque of Pandora (1875) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. As quoted in George Fox Interpreted: The Religion, Revelations, Motives and Mission of George Fox (1881) by Thomas Ellwood Longshore, p. 154 Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. As quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 16th edition (1992) Nor do the gods appear in warrior's armour clad To strike them down with sword and spear Those whom they would destroy They first make mad. Bhartṛhari, 7th c. AD; as quoted in John Brough,Poems from the Sanskrit, (1968), p, 67 vināśakāle viparītabuddhiḥ Sanskrit Saying (also in Jatak katha): "When a man is to be destroyed, his intelligence becomes self-destructive." Modern derivatives: The proverb's meaning is changed in many English versions from the 20th and 21st centuries that start with the proverb's first half (through "they") and then end with a phrase that replaces "first make mad" or "make mad." Such versions can be found at Internet search engines by using either of the two keyword phrases that are on Page 2 and Page 4 of the webpage " Pick any Wrong Card http://www.bu.edu/av/celop2/not_ESL/pick_any_wrong_card.pdf." The rest of that webpage is frameworks that induce a reader to compose new variations on this proverb. Misattributed

God, Madness

“Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time." Page 212.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Variant: I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
Source: Life of Pi

Time

“Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.”

China Miéville book The Scar

Source: The Scar

“Do what makes you happy, be with who makes you smile, laugh as much as you breathe, and love as long as you live.”

Rachel Ann Nunes (1966) Author

Love, Happiness, Smile, Good Morning

“Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making
trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Source: Pygmalion & My Fair Lady

Life, World, Way

“Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.”

Betty Friedan book The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

Women, Way

“Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“But paradise is locked and bolted….
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.”

Heinrich Von Kleist (1777–1811) German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer

Source: On a Theatre of Marionettes

World

“So you decided to help us by killing the guy we were talking to?" Clary demanded "Because you thought he had a shady past? Who- who does that? It doesnt make any sense.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Guy, Sense, Past, Help

“Maybe I should call Aaya!(Shigure)
If you call him…(Yuki)
I'll make you eat that phone.(Kyou)

-Shigure-san, Yuki-san, Kyou-kun Shoma”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

“This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.”

David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Coffee, Problem, Thinking

“Health food makes me sick.”

Calvin Trillin (1935) American journalist

Cookbook Corner: Healthy meals from health care workers, The Land Online, Sarah Johnson, 2008-10-17, 2008-12-19 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_home_hearth/local_story_297150955.html,

Health, Food

“The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.”

Anderson Cooper (1967) journalist and author

People, History

“To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

“It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

Freedom

“I don't care if my love is requited or not, because being with you and the very thought of you makes me happy. The point I'm trying to make is that you are loved because I love you, Adam. Please, don't do it. Please, don't jump because I need you.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: How to Fall in Love

Love, Happiness

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”

Don DeLillo (1936) American novelist, playwright and essayist

Freedom, Personality

“I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.”

Chuck Klosterman book Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Love, People, Music, Cars

“All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.”

Iain Banks book The Wasp Factory

Source: The Wasp Factory

People, Stupidity, Strong, Parting

“Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

Understanding

“Evelyn: There's nothing wrong with embracing one's emotions.
Brittany: Mom, You don't just embrace your emotions, you make love to them hard-core.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Catch a Mate

Love, Making love, Moms

“Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

Imagination

“You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Memory

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Context: "You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on."
"And what do you find on the other side? When you go on?"
"Your life again. What else?"
"Is that a promise?"
"It's an inevitability. No trick. No choice. You just go on."