Quotes with make-shift

Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 2457.

  • Charles Buxton The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Frost The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Julie Burchill The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • John Mortimer The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Constantin Brancusi The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
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  • Lionel Trilling The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • A. J. Liebling The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Andrea Dworkin The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Gamal Abdel Nasser The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.
    Gamal Abdel Nasser
    Egyptian president and general (1918 - 1970)
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  • Betsy Beers The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.
    Betsy Beers
    American television and film producer (1957 - )
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  • William Shakespeare The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices;
    Make instruments to plague us.
    Source: King Lear 5, 3
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bjork The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Bee Wilson The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Arthur Erickson The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Samuel Butler The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Walton The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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