Quotes with make-believe

Quotes 1801 till 1820 of 3427.

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Cat Stevens Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins Man is liberated from his illusions to make room for a fresh set.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 92
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • John Donne Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Albert Einstein Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Napoleon Hill Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • William Shakespeare Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Percy Ross Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
    Percy Ross
    American businessman (1916 - 2001)
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  • John Heywood Many hands make light work.
    John Heywood
    English writer, playwright and poet (1497 - 1580)
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  • Alain de Botton Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Carl Safina Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Joan Didion Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • George Santayana Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Brent Scowcroft Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Bill Gurley Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Sir George Jessel Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
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  • William Somerset Maugham Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • John Paul II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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