Makes Quotes

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swingweight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Tailoring your clothes makes all the difference.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that's why I'm so happy to be back!

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.

When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.

I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!

The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.