They Make Us Quotes

45 quotes by 43 authors

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing. — Henrik Ibsen
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point… — Hermann von Helmholtz
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next… — Charles W. Chesnutt
Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer. — Italo Svevo
To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make… — Helen Keller
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
The only test of goods things is that they make us strong. — Swami Vivekananda
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell… — Dorothy Day
That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and… — Azar Nafisi
If you think about it, we love others not for who they are, but for how they make us feel. In order to willingly accept… — Irwin Federman
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies. — Rickie Lee Jones
We should be worried about online silos. They make us stupid and hostile toward each other. — Larry Sanger
Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves — Sarah Grand
Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make… — Johannes Tauler
We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us… — Ronald Reagan
Men are intimidated by smart women. They make us want to kick up our game more. — Ian Somerhalder
We don't really make friends, they make us. — Bob Goff
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to… — Alain de Botton
Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we… — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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