Make Us Quotes
1167 quotes by 877 authors
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Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
— Roger Ebert
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For many, the call to be a Christian can seem demanding, even overwhelming. But we need not be afraid or feel inadequate. The Savior has…
— Robert D. Hales
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Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of…
— Diane di Prima
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There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever…
— Frank Cottrell Boyce
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I’m really proud of my team. They have given me great cars all year long. Today, we finally got to show what kind of cars…
— Joey Logano
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the…
— Harold Bloom
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Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined…
— Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz,…
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader…
— Arthur Frommer
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Fractures well cured make us more strong.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain…
— Hippolyte Taine
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Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.
— Italo Svevo
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us…
— Umberto Eco
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Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine,…
— Peter Abelard
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Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
— Julian Barnes
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I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
— Pericles
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Everywhere I go on the campaign trail, I meet voters with a real thirst for a healthy discussion of the issues. Ultimately, people don't care…
— Mike Huckabee
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Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
— Bel Kaufman
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