They Make Quotes
1017 They Make quotes by 814 unique authors
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The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when…
— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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[Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as a message: Be…
— Roger Ebert
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Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They…
— Paulo Coelho
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get…
— Walter Chrysler
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Most of all, I like the quiet, rounded tugs. They remind me of women. As I watch them work I see them as kindly, no-fuss…
— Hazel Hawke
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There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative" and…
— Robert X. Cringely
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If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new…
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
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If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of…
— Herodotus
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There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the…
— Unknown Author
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We're told we need this trade deal to open up vast markets to American goods, ... But the reality is that most Chinese workers cannot…
— David E. Bonior
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We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as…
— Bob Dylan
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Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer"…
— Sydney J. Harris
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The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are really part of a very big advertising program, and the fact that they make so much money is because…
— Phil Knight
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Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a…
— Unknown Author
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Warriors of light frequently ask themselves what they are doing here. Very often they believe their lives have no meaning. That is why they are…
— Paulo Coelho
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I thought it was very humanitarian of Sean Penn and Madonna to marry each other. That way, they make only two people miserable instead of…
— Cesar Romero
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital…
— Jack White
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The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in…
— Lucian Freud
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It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some…
— Jim Sensenbrenner
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I greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done.’ Okay, we may make a few…
— Larry Ellison
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Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all…
— Julie Burchill
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I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the…
— Padma Lakshmi
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What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power;…
— C. Wright Mills
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