Quotes with make-shift

Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 2457.

  • Ellen Hubbard The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
    Ellen Hubbard
     
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  • Samuel Johnson The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Morris Hite The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to make it memorable.
    Morris Hite
     
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  • William James The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Caitriona Balfe The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would do to make medicines from certain herbs and things.
    Caitriona Balfe
    Irish actress, producer and former (1979 - )
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  • Fred Astaire The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer (1899 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Ford The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.

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    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Norman O. Brown The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation - must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Bernard Beckett The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carrie Mae Weems The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.
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  • A. Harvey Block The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Will Rogers The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Laurence J. Peter The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Booker T. Washington The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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