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548 Makes Them quotes by 480 unique authors

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the… — Yann Martel
There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them… — Truman Capote
Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may… — Surya Das
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important,… — Seth Grahame-Smith
A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves — James Lee Burke
Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering,… — William Faulkner
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by… — Ivan Illich
She met the magus's stunned look with a smile. "The Thieves of Eddis have always been uncomfortable allies to the throne, Magus. There is the… — Megan Whalen Turner
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots… — Amelia Earhart
A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes… — Michel Foucault
Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable.… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true? — Haruki Murakami
Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends…that's what makes them friends... Pretty Little Liars — Sara Shepard
Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of… — Alice Hoffman
. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight… — Max Brooks
Tessa poked at her left incisor with her tongue. It was flat again, an ordinary tooth. "I don't understand what makes them come out like… — Cassandra Clare
First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions… — Michel de Certeau
Can we just call them storm spirits?” Leo asked. “Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks. — Rick Riordan
Vin snorted, kneeling in the low tent as she pulled her belt tight; then she crawled over to him. "I don't know how you read… — Brandon Sanderson
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children. — Stephen King
He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the horrible first date,… — Steve Martin
In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that… — Chuck Klosterman
A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are — Heather Brewer
There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also something comforting in… — Vicki Pettersson
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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