Making Us Quotes

90 quotes by 85 authors

Let us not torment each other because we are not all alike, but believe that God knew best what He was doing in making us… — James Freeman Clarke
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. — Ed Koch
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live?… — John Lennon
If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times… — Joyce Meyer
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse. — Robert Mugabe
I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants,… — John C. Reilly
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. — Voltaire
Women do come up to me after a show, but it's usually to say, 'Yhank you for making us laugh,' and all that. — Vir Das
Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else… — C.S. Lewis
Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things. — Brenda Ueland
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and… — Julio Cortazar
Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts… — Charles Simic
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art… — Marcel Proust
I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us… — Elisabeth Elliot
What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above… — Susan Beth Pfeffer
If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when weâ€™ve got the least excuse for… — Jim Thompson
Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire… — David Gemmell
The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people… — Meg Rosoff
When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole. — Jessica Sorensen
There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have… — Learned Hand

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