I Make Quotes

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perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it… — Hugh Prather
By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being lost.… — Nick Flynn
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions. — George W. Bush
Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and… — Linda Pastan
When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on… — Niccolo Machiavelli
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone… — John Steinbeck
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year… — Jonathan Swift
You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist… — John Kennedy Toole
I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right? — Randy Pausch
I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will… — Louisa May Alcott
Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again. — Ulrike Meinhof
Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all. — Emma Bull
...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is… — Louise Erdrich
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know… — Barack Obama
People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a… — Markus Zusak
I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this… — Mark Haddon
I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during… — Charles Bukowski
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If… — Max Lucado
My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any… — H. L. Mencken
My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing. — Lorrie Moore
This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God… — Anthony Trollope
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after… — William Butler Yeats

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