Quotes with make-shift

Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 2457.

  • Tacitus Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Richard Cecil Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • J. G. Ballard Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
    Source: Cocaine Nights (1996)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Marty Feldman Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.
    Marty Feldman
    British actor and comedian (1934 - 1982)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Marguerite Duras She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the ''woman of wax'' whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Ada Leverson She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.
    Source: Tenterhooks (1912)
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • George Eliot She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Victor Hugo Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Barry Sanders Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Seneca Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John Augustus Shedd Simply having children does not make mothers.
    John Augustus Shedd
    American writer (1859 - 1928)
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  • Wayne Dyer Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • William Shakespeare Simply the thing I am shall make me live.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Calvin Harris Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Afrika Bambaataa Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Malcolm X Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bing Gordon Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Sidney Smith So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it.
    Sidney Smith
    English poet (1771 - 1845)
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