We Make Quotes

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Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to,… — Michael Ondaatje
It may not seem obvious at first glance, but the way we make decisions in life tells a lot about the kind of faith we… — Jim Cymbala
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. — C.S. Lewis
We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather,… — Milton Friedman
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it,… — Swami Vivekananda
In the things that really matter--our covenants, the commandments, and following the prophet--we need to be completely united. In the non-essentials, we have our agency… — Sheri L. Dew
We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm… — Robert Frost
I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your… — Dorothy Allison
We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there… — Terry Tempest Williams
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task,… — Helen Keller
We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake… — Jeanette Winterson
We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We… — Wendell Berry
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold.… — Clive Barker
Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and… — Dean Koontz
We are the choices we make. — Patrick Ness
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. — Thomas Browne
All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make… — Glenn Beck
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we… — Rebecca Solnit
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A… — Ilona Andrews
Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. — Joyce Carol Oates
No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The… — Michael Grant
The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create… — Dorothy Allison
I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip.… — Natsuki Takaya

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