They Make Quotes

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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. — Tacitus
Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly… — Matt Taibbi
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. — Henry David Thoreau
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a… — Kurt Vonnegut
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different… — Ayelet Waldman
Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do it. But then… — Christopher Walken
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in… — E. O. Wilson
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff. — Steven Wright
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. — Euripides
I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by… — Barack Obama
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. — Arundhati Roy
And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. — Christopher Paolini
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel. — Margaret Mead
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us… — Oscar Wilde
I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the… — Rob Thurman
Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the… — Ray Bradbury
I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions. — Diane Setterfield
Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose,"… — Sherwood Smith
That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who… — Ayn Rand
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. — Conrad Hilton
My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how… — Rick Riordan
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make… — Isak Dinesen
If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me. — Megan Whalen Turner
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make! — Bram Stoker

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