Makes Us Quotes

1127 Makes Us quotes by 783 unique authors

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression… — Elbert Hubbard
Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us… — Joe Greene
Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days. — Edward Hoagland
We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us… — Thomas Merton
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is… — David McCullough
A good proof is one that makes us wiser. — IU?. I. Manin
I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders. — Azim Premji
Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes… — Frederick Lenz
I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster… — Sebastian Thrun
We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people… — Sebastian Thrun
We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch with that which… — Frederick Lenz
What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness. — Frederick Lenz
The energy strands and bands of our being are linked in a certain way and makes us what we are. It causes us to perceive… — Frederick Lenz
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. — Sophie Swetchine
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends. — Mary Anne Radmacher
I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws. — Denise Mina
When your soul is pricked by compunction and gradually changed, it becomes a fountain flowing with rivers of tears and compunction. If any one of… — Symeon the New Theologian
When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a… — Francois Fenelon

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