Quotes with make-shift

Quotes 2181 till 2200 of 2457.

  • Oscar Wilde What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • André Gide What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Harold Rosenberg What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Anatole France What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Jeremy Taylor What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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  • Toni Morrison What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Seneca What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • George Eliot What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Cam Newton What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Barkhad Abdi What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Barry Eisler What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Roland Barthes What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Anne Rice What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Bill Griffith What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Bernie S. Siegel What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Beth Brooke What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • David Lloyd George What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Polly Adler What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician - these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
    Polly Adler
    American madam and author (0 - 1962)
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