Makes Us Quotes
1127 Makes Us quotes by 783 unique authors
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Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
— Jonathan Swift
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God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we…
— Orhan Pamuk
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The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we…
— Helene Cixous
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There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.
— Charles Duhigg
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That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in…
— David Levithan
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It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
— Tom Stoppard
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When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the first of many…
— Miranda July
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It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them…
— Robert Fulghum
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The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is…
— Helen Keller
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Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.
— Rick Yancey
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Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said…
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Not everyone sees you the way you do. Sometimes our imperfections are what makes us special. - Tripp
— Abbi Glines
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What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
— Henri Nouwen
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
— Alison Bechdel
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You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.
— Anthony Marra
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It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.
— Cassandra Clare
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We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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On our own we simply don't know how to get things done the same way you do things. But, like everyone else, we want to…
— Naoki Higashida
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Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human
— Veronica Roth
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We have the Noble Desire to help others and benefit the world, without expecting any return or recognition. What makes us great is not our…
— Ilchi Lee
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Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile from the inside…
— Naoki Higashida
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It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not…
— Roger Bacon
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to…
— Richard Dawkins
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