Makes Quotes

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool.

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.

When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.

What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.

Every experience makes you a man.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.

It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, that's a victory.