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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Faith never makes a confession.
Everybody has their ups and downs, and that’s what makes you tougher.
Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Repetition makes perfect.
The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
Your personality is what makes you sexy.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.
I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you’re watching a movie.
When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
There’s nothing, today, that excites me, or that makes me think I would like to be back in AFL circles. I have no interest. No interest whatsoever. My love for the game died inside of me in those final years of me playing.
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
What’s the biggest function of a cell phone? What does a cell phone do for humanity? It makes people more productive.
The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We’re spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they’ll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.
And plenty makes us poor.
It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.
Practice makes permanent.
More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn’t leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there’s no ideal – a constant struggle, constantly compromising, but ultimate love.
I don’t ever want to lose my rawness or whatever. That makes a person special.
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you’re doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that’s why people say it’s so hard. But that doesn’t make it hard. That just makes it distracting.
You take every opportunity you have to win a trophy. That is always the goal, and winning makes it a little bit easier the next time.
It is the mind that makes the body.
A point makes you happy; an assist makes you and your teammate happy. An assist makes two people happy.
Many young people don’t know what Versace represent. I want to show what makes Versace an iconic brand.
‘Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.
I think when you are a cool guy but also a hot guy, that makes you even more sexy.
My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic – that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.
We’ve been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that’s one of the things that makes us human beings.
I love entrepreneurship because that’s what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.
The more important a call to action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that’s proven.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Creating a strong company culture isn’t just good business. It’s the right thing to do, and it makes your company better for all stakeholders – employees, management, and customers.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
A good movie makes the audience feel like they’ve journeyed with the characters.
Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.
I truly believe that it’s all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and that’s what makes you a champion.
I’m a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.
My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
I like criticism. It makes you strong.
Civilization is what makes you sick.
All punk is is attitude. That’s what makes it. The attitude.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That’s what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won’t violate one another’s privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
It makes me feel good just to know that I’m touching people.
Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don’t see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.
Knowledge is dangerous when you’re a person of colour. It makes you a powerful individual, and that’s what ‘Stay Dangerous’ represents.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different – the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.
Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I’m unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I’m angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I’m very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.
I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
As humans, we’re going to make mistakes. It’s what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.
It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
I know what makes me good, and it’s not a bat.
When people tell me I can’t do something, that’s what excites me. It makes me perform better.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
‘The Fast’ is tough; it’s not easy. It represents too much to too many people. But that’s what also makes it fun.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay – for all of us. For the greater good. That’s what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial – what I present to people outwardly – but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.
When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They’re playing the sprint. They’re not worried about lifetime value and retention. They’re worried about short-term goals.
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it’s a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.
War makes strange bedfellows.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
Seeing my friends succeed, find love, or just feeling content makes me feel unconditionally happy.
A liberal to me is one who – and it suits some of the dictionary definitions – is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
I believe doctors and scientists who say that disruption of our immune system by negative energy makes you prone to diseases of which cancer is one. That is a medical fact.
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
We learn from each other. We learn from others’ mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.
Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of those same crops.
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction is akin to setting fire to our lifeboat.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
I’m a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick.
A heart makes a good home for the friend.
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.
If you’re funny, if there’s something that makes you laugh, then every day’s going to be okay.
Simplicity makes me happy.
Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.
Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done.
Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn’t dependent on anyone else.
Success isn’t everything but it makes a man stand straight.
I crave for adventure. It makes me feel alive and excited. It’s a constant tussle between what you want to do and other parameters that aren’t in your hands.
It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That’s what makes theatre live. That’s why it persists.
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
In a competition, there’s always winners and losers. And I think everyone is here to win, which makes it fun for us all.
Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
Standing up for what you believe in, to me, is freedom of speech. And that’s a right that every American citizen has and what makes this country great.
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
I am blessed with a funny gene that makes me enjoy life.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn’t going to be that way any more.
I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.
I don’t think winning an award changes things. It makes you feel happy.
Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there’s always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
Some weeks, I’m super-duper busy, so I can only fit cardio in here and there, a lot of stuff happens in the afternoon, so I can get up and have a workout, which makes me feel awesome for the rest of my day. There’s just something sexy about feeling strong. And every night I’m onstage, I get another workout.
I’m big-busted… I can’t always wear the cutest bras, and it makes me so mad.
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.
Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.
Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
A shooter takes shots, a shotter makes shots.
I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Every weird thing about you is beautiful and makes life interesting.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
History takes time. History makes memory.
A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
It is teamwork that makes the dream work.
Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It’s what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines… which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.
I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.
My hair color is super important to my look because I feel like it helps kind of define who I am. It’s like a characteristic of mine that makes me feel comfortable and different from the rest.
A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me. People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.
I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
When your dreams include service to others – accomplishing something that contributes to others – it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
Someone who just has a really good heart – it’s so attractive: someone who makes you feel beautiful and encourages you – makes you better.
I do believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
What you don’t want is for violence and gore to become more important than character and structure. A lot of slasher movies from the eighties were only focused on violence and gore, which robs the human beings in the story of any empathetic reaction from the audience, and instead makes them cheer for the gore.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
College is something I’ve always said I wanted to do, but you’re going there to get a piece of paper that says you can get a job, but if I’m already working steadily and doing good work, it makes you question your priorities. Right now, I’m in my own film college: filming a TV show.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
A life of anybody is not perfect; there is always things that happen, and that is what makes it interesting.
I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
It’s always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother’s, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
The good woman, who makes all the sacrifices is always the one with long hair.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
God is all over the place. And even if He isn’t, if it makes me feel good, why not?
Having a child makes you realize the importance of life – narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I’d be fine.
A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he’s usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don’t know what to think of it.
I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
People are different from one another. That’s what makes the world good. That’s what makes the world great.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn’t cure cancer.
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
A great restaurant doesn’t distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me – when I record the details of what I’m going through, whether it’s a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I’ve come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.
Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.
Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.
We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it’s what makes us we are. It’s what delineates the borders of our societies.
I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I’m an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don’t see how their job really makes a difference in someone else’s life in some large or small way.
Rap makes the conservative argument about what happens when family life is eroded either by welfare and drugs, or by the stresses and indulgences of middle-class life.
If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Everyone loves fried chicken, Don’t ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken.
I used to look like an American flag. The Padre uniform makes me look like a taco. Actually, the transition has been great. I’ve made 25 new friends, and I never thought I wanted to be anything other than a Dodger, but this is fun.
Time makes more converts than reason.
I’m a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Music – it’s motivational and just makes you relax.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days.
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won’t be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.
The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it’s really all about them.
In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.
You can’t stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Education doesn’t just make us smarter. It makes us whole.
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That’s what their substance is.
I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
I’m a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.
It’s not even about looking good; it’s about feeling good inside. Celebrity Sweat makes everyone aware of that but in a fun way with their favorite athletes.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.
People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn’t matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.
Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
My parents have always encouraged me to follow my dreams and do what makes me happy.
The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous – absolutely ridiculous – restrictions on everything that they can do.
What is your Unique Selling Proposition? What makes you different than your competitors? Wrap your advertising message around that USP and communicate it in a clear and concise manner.
Everyone makes mistakes; it’s about the way you respond to it that’s really important.
Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.
Laughter is a uniting force, it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier.
Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
Violent anger makes me physically ill.
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive, and makes psychotherapy possible.
With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without.
Sustainability makes good business sense, and we’re all on the same team at the end of the day. That’s the truth about the human condition.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice.
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Control is not real, and I’m really understanding that every day. It’s about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.
It’s also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I’ve been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That’s why we’re here, after all, to help others.
Anger does not solve problems – anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, ‘Don’t make important decisions when you’re angry.’
Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Mentally strong people overcome setbacks with confidence because adversity only makes them better.
People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
I would enjoy sitting in a rocker… listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.
Common sense often makes good law.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
The part that makes you unique is the bit people will like or fear, fall in love with, or try to avoid.
Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That’s the nature of being a goalkeeper.
It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.
I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays.
Art is what defines us, what makes us human.
My wigs are ever changing in height, width, color, size. They make me feel happy. Wearing them makes me feel like I can be a different person every day and that is kind of exciting.
Emotional honesty transcends reality; it’s what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn’t you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness.
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?
All the managers in the world, it doesn’t matter how good you are, if your players don’t understand what you are looking for or what you want, it makes no sense.
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it’s meaningful, then it’s sustainable – and a meaningful life is a longer life.
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist.’
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, ‘What makes me come alive?’ Because what the world – a wife, a child – needs is men who have come alive.
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven‘t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I’ve succeeded, if I’m doing something that makes me happy and I’m not lying to anybody.
A good director makes a playground and allows you to play.
Life is not what it’s supposed to be. It’s what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.
Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.
You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn’t mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that’s what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it’s even more than that – Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody – or your soul.
If you want to be a real human being – a real woman, a real man – you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, ‘Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.’
To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.
The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.
I never learned all the things you’re not supposed to do; I just do what makes the most sense.
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Find something that makes you happy and go for it.
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
I’m not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.
That’s what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It’s a positive feedback cycle.
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I’m not familiar enough with it, and I’m too old-school a brain to be able to figure it out. I’m dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs.
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
A good husband makes a good wife.
PowerPoint makes us stupid.
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don’t read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.
The beauty of any conspiracy theory is that because it can’t be proved, that just makes it more ‘real.’ It’s not a question of believing or not believing, really; it’s more a question of just accepting a series of probabilities that lead to an undeniable conclusion.
Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
People are pretty because they’re nice, and they care about other people, and they have a good heart. That’s what makes you pretty, and I didn’t know that at one point in my life.
When I hear people boo, that just makes me want to go out there and work harder.
Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky.
I’m a good crazy. A crazy good guy. Someone who makes the most of life.
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Jogging is very beneficial. It’s good for your legs and your feet. It’s also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
It’s hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn’t yet been duplicated by technology.
It doesn’t matter if it’s soggy or it’s sunny, there are so many lovely roads and awesome rugged countryside in Scotland – that’s what makes it.
If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it’s that the terrorists can attack us, but they can’t take away what makes us American – our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.
It is said that love makes the world go ’round – the announcement lacks verification. It’s wind from the dinner horn that does it.
The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people’s lives in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces.
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
People don’t change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.
