Make Us Quotes
1167 quotes by 877 authors
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Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can…
— Azar Nafisi
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Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this…
— William Peter Blatty
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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it…
— Sigmund Freud
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I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and…
— Lisa See
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I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility…
— John Green
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Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that…
— Milan Kundera
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The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be…
— Thomas Merton
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the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people…
— Banksy
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She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between…
— Markus Zusak
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At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but…
— C.S. Lewis
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Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
— Emily Giffin
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Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.
— Graham Greene
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Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.
— Terry Pratchett
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There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never…
— Charles Bukowski
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Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
— Gregory David Roberts
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...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the…
— Joan Bauer
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Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you…
— Dean Koontz
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