Quotes with make-shift

Quotes 1681 till 1700 of 2457.

  • A. J. McLean The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Malcolm Forbes The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Earl Nightingale The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Theodore Parker The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aldous Huxley The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Archibald Macleish The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Calvin Trillin The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Ben Bernanke The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Rabbi Harold S. Kushner The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.
    Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
    American rabbi (1935 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Stephen Sondheim The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy
    Stephen Sondheim
    American composer (1930 - 2021)
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  • John Ciardi The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Gertrude Stein The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Bell Hooks The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.
    Source: The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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