Makeshifts Quotes

#1. The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,
chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated "by hook and by crook," the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the labor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it.

Washington Irving

#3. If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

William Morris

#4. They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It

Henry Ford

#6. Order should not have priority over freedom. But the affirmation of freedom should be elevated from a mood to a strategy.

Henry Kissinger

#7. Alan Smith ... very much a striker, by reputation ... and by fact

Peter Drury

#8. Self-evaluation directs us to prepare our next performance from the past and today's experiences.

Auliq Ice

#9. He said we'd become stars when we died watching over the ones we love. Now I watch the sky every night hoping to find him there.

Morgan Rhodes

#10. Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy **it, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death.

Tara Reid

#11. I never drop a player I only make changes.

Bill Shankly

#12. People communicate in Twittering ways. I've learned how to do that.

Buzz Aldrin

#13. Go spend time with the aspen trees. They'll tell you how it works. They'll tell you to look to your roots for energy. They'll tell you there's warmth below the surface.

Kaya McLaren

#14. If I'm going to die, I want to still be me

Suzanne Collins

#15. It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

Alan Kulwicki

#16. So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

John Mason Brown

#17. If you find that you are short of funds in the field, remember that any paper can be mind augmented to perform in the place of real money.

Matt Kindt