Quotes with make-shift

Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 2457.

  • George Orwell The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point: This can be done.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Marlene Dietrich The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Gloria Steinem The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Ben Wheatley The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Blake Bailey The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
    Blake Bailey
     
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  • Plutarch The wildest colts make the best horses.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Isaac D'Israeli The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
    Isaac D'Israeli
    British scholar and writer (1766 - 1848)
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of ''nothing attempted, nothing gained'' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • Horace Walpole The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Miller The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Aristotle The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Alan Dershowitz The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Brit Marling Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
    To make a Great an Honest Hive.
    T'enjoy the World's Conveniences,
    Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease,
    Without great Vices, is a vain
    Eutopia seated in the Brain.
    Source: The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Sara Teasdale Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
    Sara Teasdale
    American lyric poet (1884 - 1933)
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  • Bill Maris There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose?
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Afrika Bambaataa There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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