Quotes with makes

Quotes 241 till 260 of 892.

  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Fred A. Allen Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Robert Frost Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • William Zinsser Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
    William Zinsser
    American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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  • Don Delillo Hardship makes the world obscure.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Michael Levine Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
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  • Anna Louise Strong Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Philip Roth He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
    American Pastoral
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson He makes no friends who never made a foe.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Lord Chesterfield He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Richard Whately He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Baltasar Gracian He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • George Herbert He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Samuel Johnson He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abraham Lincoln He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • John Dryden He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ivern Ball He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment.
    Ivern Ball
    American author (1926 - 1992)
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  • Emily Dickinson His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Vaclav Havel Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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