Make Quotes (page 566)

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• god
• gods plan
• laugh

If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans. Anne Lamott

• may
• reading
• hope

People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish. Alice Munro

• love
• walking
• moments

When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad. Neil Gaiman

• wonderful
• wonder
• family

Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine - when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that ever worshiper absolutely needs. Ray Bradbury

• men
• bad
• purpose

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better. David O. McKay

• effort
• willingly
• simply

Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else. Gary Player

• god
• universe
• universal

The universe is a machine for the making of Gods. Henri Bergson

• art
• author
• new

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms. Oscar Wilde

• makes
• willfulness
• willed

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you. Robert Collier

• baby
• making
• carrots

Baby carrots are making me gay. Stephen Colbert

• people
• dating
• kindness

She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste. Julio Cortazar

• different
• you me
• understanding

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they... F. Scott Fitzgerald

• waves
• end
• likely

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. William Shakespeare

• sick
• money
• music

Only sick music makes money today. Friedrich Nietzsche

• mindfulness
• study
• learning

You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas, it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. Frank McCourt