Best Makes People Wisdom
289 Makes People quotes by 257 unique authors
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The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music…
— Martin Luther
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April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the…
— Aristotle
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You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.
— Tom Wolfe
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She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.
— Cormac McCarthy
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I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what…
— Douglas Coupland
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I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it…
— Stephen Chbosky
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Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and…
— Mike Yaconelli
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Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your…
— Louise Fitzhugh
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These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk…
— Aravind Adiga
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Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug.…
— Diane Duane
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Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them nice to be loathed? While…
— Christopher Isherwood
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I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted…
— Elton John
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This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the…
— Daniel Handler
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No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.
— Lisa Kleypas
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Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman…
— Stephen Colbert
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When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all.…
— Lewis Carroll
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Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He…
— William Nicholson
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What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?
— Morrie Schwartz
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It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
— George Orwell
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I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.
— Suzanne Collins
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Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they…
— David Sedaris
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Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that…
— Jeff Lindsay
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Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most…
— Betty Smith
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The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.
— James Frey
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