Makes Us Quotes

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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is… — Octavio Paz
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. — Pablo Picasso
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful… — Steven Pinker
I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it… — Jason Reitman
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. — Jules Renard
We're frightened of what makes us different. — Anne Rice
I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of… — Jason Ritter
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead… — Marco Rubio
We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That… — Marco Rubio
Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy. — Sharon Salzberg
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at… — George Saunders
You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear… — Donna Shalala
Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong. — Simon Sinek
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. — Susan Sontag
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. — Benjamin Spock
If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us… — Jon Stewart
We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow. — James Taylor
Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and… — Marlo Thomas
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. — Paul Tournier
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. — Miguel de Unamuno
Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that… — Margaret Heffernan
What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or… — Julian Barnes
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does.… — Molly Ivins

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