Makes It Quotes

#1. God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. And he makes it easiest of all at the end, for it gradually becomes more natural and delightful.

Peter Kreeft

#2. Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of us will open our hearts to animals.

Matthew Scully

#3. Tattoos, for example, are very hard to forget. I think there's something about the impermanence of life these days that makes it necessary to etch ink into our skins. It reminds us that we've been marked by the world, that we're still alive. That we'll never forget.

Tahereh Mafi

#4. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

Allan Bloom

#5. Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

Manuel Puig

#6. And there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.

Sloane Crosley

#7. I add a lot of citrus to my food and I think that flavors it. And, to me, that what makes it healthier, lower in fat, lower in calories. It adds lots of flavor. Spices, of course. But citrus is definitely kind of my go-to to season and really to really make those flavors, make that food come alive.

Cat Cora

#8. The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

Akira Kurosawa

#9. A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

Don Marquis

#10. Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

Eknath Easwaran

#11. The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.

Marianne Williamson

#12. Finding the right person can be so hard that often, when a person finally finds someone she or he is comfortable with, she or he just makes it work.

Chirlane McCray

#13. Knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

Daniel Kahneman

#14. Being a conglomerate, each of our businesses has a different challenge; business landscape is different for each business. It makes it challenging as well as exciting.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#15. When she talks to Tripp, something nice happens inside of her: a vibration, a thrum. It's as if a tiny wind chime is suspended inside her soul, she thinks, and his words are the wind that makes it ring.

Mary Amato

#16. First is a poem, a ballad, out of Scotland. You may say there is no king in it, and of course there isn't, which is what makes it so sad. The last line of the third verse, 'O he might hae been a king' is so sad that I don't like to look at it with both eyes at once.

William Mayne

#17. When you love, you open yourself up to numerous vulnerabilities and worries and responsibilities you never imagined existed because suddenly there's someone else in the world who's more important to you than you are. That's what makes it so tough.

Linda Kage

#18. It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

Daniel Johns

#19. Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.

Chogyam Trungpa

#20. I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.

Sara Coleridge

#21. There was a lot of risk taken in the Mercury and Apollo eras, and we don't take those risks anymore. We've designed the systems to eliminate risk, which makes it take forever and cost too much money.

Gwynne Shotwell

#22. An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

Jane Fonda

#23. I think people should get married at the courthouse without a single person present and no fanfare whatsoever. Then, if the couple makes it to ten years, they should have a big party. The whole shebang, white dress, flowers, cake of their dreams. After ten years they'd deserve it.

Ann Wertz Garvin

#24. If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.

Eric Bana

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

#26. Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

Frank R. Wolf

#27. The very helplessness of the public which makes it necessary for them to consult the experts also makes it impossible for them to judge how expert they are.

Hugh Nibley

#28. Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

Neko Case

#29. The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved

Tara Brach

#30. Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.

Frans De Waal

#31. There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.

Samantha Power

#32. I start a boxing movie and that's kind of something I've been able to get to the gym for. It's great anytime you can parallel a skill that your character has. I just think it makes it even more rewarding.

Miles Teller

#33. What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

Paul Feig

#34. Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

Richard Paul Evans

#35. That is what makes it all so fascinating, you see. Loving you is like gravity or the daily sunrise. It is a mystery that I know I will be content to explore for the rest of my life.

Amanda Quick

#36. Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.

Alec Soth

#37. All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.

Amy Bloom

#38. My truth is everyone else's lies. My lies are their comfort. Telling the truth makes people uncomfortable. Who am I to cause anyone discomfort on purpose? Lying works. Lying makes it all better. Lying is my gift to everyone around me. They never even say thank you.

Kathryn Perez

#39. Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.

Richard Stallman

#40. The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.

Ramana Maharshi

#41. Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.

Lauren Kate

#42. 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.

George McGovern

#43. I see death and tragedy all the time and nothing makes it worse than when it's totally senseless. All she needed was some niceness, some basic human kindness, and she wouldn't be on her way to the morgue and her parents wouldn't be devastated. It's heartbreaking and so senseless.

Jay Crownover

#44. OK, I'm insane, too, but I'm also charming, so that makes it all right.

Ryan Attard

#45. The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him who makes it, and so of the work of the made to the work of the maker ... The imagination of man is made in the image of the imagination of God.

George MacDonald

#46. No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

Moliere

#47. There is nothing better than to make it to the College World Series. All of the extra reps in the weight room, all of the early morning practices, and all the hard work spent the entire year makes it worth it.

Jennie Finch

#48. [Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal."
The kid lifted his eyebrows.
"My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.

Jim Butcher

#49. But not everything in your heart makes it to your mouth.

Victor Lodato

#50. Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community.

Juliet B. Schor

#51. People are different and it is this uniqueness that also makes it imperative for the definition or meaning of success be left to each individual to determine.

Archibald Marwizi

#52. You've gotta stop calling each sl*ts and wh*r*s. That just makes it more okay for GUYS to call you sl*ts and wh*r*s.

Tina Fey

#53. I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.

Lily Cole

#54. We're led to believe love is complicated. It's not the love that's complicated. It's all the crap that we attach to it and put in front of it that makes it difficult. If you're smart, you'll realize this before it's too late and simplify.

Alison G. Bailey

#55. It [preparing for a role] is just like studying for a test and making the test easy; it makes it a lot of fun, especially when people enjoy it.

Gina Carano

#56. All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight
the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

Simone Weil

#57. You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

Jack LaLanne

#58. It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'

Madeleine M. Kunin

#59. In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote.

Lucy Powell

#60. The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

Mick Jagger

#61. It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.

Upton Sinclair

#62. I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

Tanith Lee

#63. You know, darling, if caffeine ever makes it to the illegals list, you're going to have to register as an addict." "They try to make coffee an illegal, I'll kill them all, and it won't be an issue.

J.D. Robb

#64. You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

Dan Millman

#65. As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own.

Jeff Gordon

#66. Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

Pharoahe Monch

#67. A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

Robert Fanney

#68. In high school, people are sometimes encouraged to be like everyone else. What's so great about this show is that these kids are weird and different and over-achievers. They know what they want and they're going after it. They're weird and they don't deny it. That's what makes it special.

Sarah Steele

#69. In order to satisfy this great oneiric function, which makes it not a kind of total monument, the [Eiffel] Tower must escape reason. The first condition of this victorious flight is that the Tower be an utterly useless monument.

Roland Barthes

#70. We continue to see more and more of that - games we didn't necessarily know would work in VR until a developer goes in and discovers the game mechanic that makes it come together. Sure enough, hockey can be a great VR experience.

Brendan Iribe

#71. The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today.

Jim Costa

#72. The diva tag just won't go away. I think that's because people want me to be like that. It makes it more interesting if I have thrown a phone at somebody or a water bottle. Sadly that's just not me.

Katherine Jenkins

#73. I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, and man, when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids, especially their kids, it makes it all worthwhile.

Tim O'Brien

#74. Every track has its challenges, but Suzuka is a continuous test of a driver's skills, and I think that's what makes it so beautiful to drive.

Romain Grosjean

#75. If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

John Dingell

#76. Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

Paul Auster

#77. It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.

Elizabeth Perkins

#78. To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

Lao-Tzu

#79. I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think.

Kevin Durand

#80. Mindfulness frees us of forgetfulness and dispersion and makes it possible to live fully each minute of life. Mindfulness enables us to live.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#81. It's hard being weird. No - it's hard living in a culture that makes it hard.

Felicia Day

#82. Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

William Whipple

#83. When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

Sarah Addison Allen

#84. Don't love her too much. Don't. Maybe it's still in her the thing that makes it all right to kill her children. I have to tell her. I have to protect her.

Toni Morrison

#85. Being a messenger of love is all about caring for every person in your orbit unconditionally and ceaselessly. The harder the other person makes it for you, the more love you need to send their way.

Pooja Ruprell

#86. Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.

Richard Rogers

#87. There's nothing I'd say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that - when you're working with a group of people that are so beyond talented - that, every day, you wake up going, 'All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people.' That's what makes it fun.

Brie Larson

#88. If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

Stephen Chow

#89. It is not our believing of the Gospel that makes it true. It exists as independent, true Truth.

Alistair Begg

#90. Nicholas says that magic isn't inherently good or bad, it's what people do with it that makes it that way. It took me a long time to understand that. Once I did, I realized it isn't magic that separates us from them, or you from me. It's misunderstanding.

Virginia Boecker

#91. Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.

Carl Sagan

#92. His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he makes it look so simple. When he passes the ball, it always seems to go where he wants it to go. That sounds simple, but believe me, it is not.
(on David Beckham)

Graham Taylor

#93. I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.

Patrick Grant

#94. I said to a guy, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful," and he said, "Because it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"

Bill Cosby

#95. Love is years of devotion, sacrifice, commitment, loyalty, trust, faith, and friendship all wrapped up in one. True love does more than cause your heart to flutter. It upholds your heart when the infatuation no longer makes it flutter.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#96. The true purpose of illustrated journaling [is] to celebrate your life. No matter how small or mundane or redundant, each drawing and little essay you write to commemorate an event or an object or a place makes it all the more special.

Danny Gregory

#97. Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

John Dryden

#98. If it isn't a choice,then it means you must be born a certain way,either gay or straight. If you are born that way,it must mean that god made you that way,which makes it unlikely that he would damn you to hell for it. After all,it would be technically his fault.

Eileen Cook

#99. Though it may never come again is what makes it so sweet.

Emily Dickinson

#100. The Americans' great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle has permeated their minds. As a practice, it stains all the way down to their souls.

Geoffrey Wood