Makes Quotes

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful.

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

I don't like anything that's too confining. I'm sort of a control freak, so anything that makes me feel like I'm out of control is a bit uncomfortable. But you know how it is, sometimes it's good to live a little!

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Common sense often makes good law.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.