Making Quotes

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. — Hannah Arendt
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various… — Aristotle
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something… — J. J. Abrams
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road… — Darren Aronofsky
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a… — Darren Aronofsky
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck… — David Attenborough
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. — Dean Acheson
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. — Teresa of Avila
I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher,… — Peter Ackroyd
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of… — Lord Acton
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. — Enid Bagnold
To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep. — David Bailey
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that… — James A. Baldwin
I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to… — Stephen Baldwin
I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for. — Christian Bale
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of… — Lucille Ball
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part… — Honore de Balzac

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