Makes Quotes
16583 quotes by 8030 authors
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The return makes one love the farewell.
— Alfred de Musset
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Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the…
— William Cowper
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With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the…
— Anna Quindlen
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The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes climate and weather.…
— Sylvia Earle
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.
— Barack Obama
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A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.
— Carl Jung
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Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a…
— Arnold Lobel
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It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The…
— Wallace Stevens
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Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
— Ernest Renan
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The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it…
— George Santayana
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I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts…
— Ken Kesey
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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next…
— Maria Montessori
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What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
— Robert Browning
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable…
— John Ruskin
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The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer…
— Cesar Chavez
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He makes a July's day short as December.
— William Shakespeare
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