They Make Quotes
1017 They Make quotes by 814 unique authors
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee...
— Emily Dickinson
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On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise.…
— Philip Roth
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They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life…
— Harper Lee
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None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you…
— Eugene O'Neill
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on…
— Blaise Pascal
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Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
— Orson Scott Card
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I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant,…
— Paulo Coelho
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It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are…
— Oscar Wilde
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Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but…
— Stephen King
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The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or…
— Winston Churchill
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I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
— Sarah Dessen
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The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of…
— Clarice Lispector
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A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is…
— Jane Yolen
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Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I…
— Unknown Author
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Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a…
— Jeanette Winterson
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English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.
— Denis Johnson
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The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic…
— Anne Frank
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Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. (they make these?) For me to store my novel…
— Meg Cabot
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Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long,…
— James Patterson
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Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're…
— Marisha Pessl
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Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly. "Would you like one?" she asked the little dog. "Yes, please," whispered the…
— Neil Gaiman
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So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for…
— George R. R. Martin
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