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Making Quotes (page 192)

Anais Nin quote: "Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct..."
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer. Anais Nin
Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price. Robert Penn Warren
The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks. John Updike
Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse. Taylor Swift
Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes. Robert Fulghum
Stephen King quote: "Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what..."
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children. Stephen King
Stephen Hawking quote: "It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because..."
It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist. Stephen Hawking
The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed."By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it."And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it. Charles de Lint
There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest. Thornton Wilder
Jane Austen quote: "General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man..."
General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be. Jane Austen
I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life. Vincent Price
Eric Idle quote: "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me..."
sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours. Eric Idle
T. S. Eliot quote: "Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit."
Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit. T. S. Eliot
Baby you're the only light I ever saw. I make the most of all the sadness, you be a bitch because you can. You try to hit me just to hurt me so you leave me feeling dirty 'cause you can't understand. We're going down and you could see it to....we're slow dancing in a burning room!!! John Mayer
Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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