Makes Him Quotes
207 quotes by 175 authors
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
— Samuel Johnson
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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his…
— John Keats
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To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of…
— Haniel Long
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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer…
— Rob Sheffield
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A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best…
— Leland Stanford
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with…
— Carl Jung
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Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes…
— Carl Jung
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at…
— Alexandre Dumas
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I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.†It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A…
— James Thurber
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It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own…
— Anthony Burgess
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Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
— John Steinbeck
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the…
— Alan Watts
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A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.
— Orhan Pamuk
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Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool;…
— William Shakespeare
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God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the…
— John Piper
Who Wrote These Makes Him Quotes
175 authors contributed a total of 207 Makes Him Quotes, led by these top contributors: