Makes Quotes

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.

Every shot makes someone happy.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.

It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

Opportunity makes a thief.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

It's almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh.