Quotes About Unmaking

#1. The things that hurt us are often the things that help us, and the whole dichotomy between creation and destruction is totally false, I think. We live in a universe that seems committed to making and unmaking all that is possible, you know?

John Green

#2. Terror - what Hunter Thompson calls "fear and loathing" - often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking. If that sense of unmaking is sudden and seems personal - if it hits you around the heart - then it lodges in the memory as a complete set.

Stephen King

#3. Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.

Nicolas Bouvier

#4. Unless it was enough for these worshipers to bask in the knowledge that, though invisible to them and in every way inaccessible to them, the swarthy handsome Ex-Athlete and the beautiful Blond Actress might at that very moment be coupling like Shiva and Shakti, unmaking and making the Universe?

Joyce Carol Oates

#5. The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?

David Mitchell

#6. Everything is made to perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought. The wonder of anything is that it was made in the first place. What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?

P. Harding

#7. When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead, a people arises when many actions and movements combine into novel patterns of change. For a people is always in the making or unmaking.

Paulina Ochoa Espejo

#8. It is much to be wished that one had a post that knew what it was doing again; and lawmakers that knew what they were doing. If I were the Government, I should feel rather ashamed of making regulations one month and unmaking them the next.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#9. The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation or simply its steady development, but the drastic and dramatic birth of new creation from the womb of the old.

N. T. Wright

#10. Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

Stephen King

#11. Unmaking, decreating, is the only task man may take upon himself, if he aspires, as everything suggests, to distinguish himself from the Creator.

Emil Cioran

#12. He shrugged, working to make her understand. There's whole YouTube montages playing still shots of my butt to music. I don't take credit for it. My mom's been paying a trainer for years. Oh, and my six-pack won a Fan's Choice Award called the SixPackAttack. Three years running.

Anne Eliot

#13. You don't stop playing because you grow old.

You grow old because you stop playing.

Bob Krogstad

#14. You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love ran more smoothly, it would have a terribly detrimental effect on our cache of love stories.

Mariella Frostrup

#15. Mr. Roth. The Devil is holding your daughter's hand. Now would be a great time to step up and whack the kid with your fire poker

Anne Eliot

#16. Nice of you to care, gnome girl. He tapped his cheeks, grinning now.

Anne Eliot

#17. I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

Jeffrey Donovan

#18. But it was one thing to be cold over distance, another entirely when they were in your same zip code.

Sarah Dessen

#19. Nobody sounds like that! Mom, Aunt Nan, it won't work. No way is he ever, ever, ever going to blend in. And his ... you know ... his shoulders are all wide and he's all tan and looks Superman strong ... and ... "
"Anything else? Should I turn around?

Anne Eliot

#20. After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

Salman Rushdie

#21. I repel all guys. Now I have proof. PROOF.
Wait till Jenna hears. Maybe I need a different deodorant?
She ran her tongue over her teeth. Or toothpaste?

Anne Eliot

#22. Someone should give them all an A+ for chewing, Vere whispered.

Anne Eliot

#23. Holy mother of ripped-gorgeous.
Get over the assets. Get over the assets.
It's an award-winning six pack. SO WHAT? Get over it.
He's just your friend. Your Dustin McHugh.

Anne Eliot

#24. A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

James MacArthur

#25. During the debate, Bush was asked by a lady to name three mistakes he's made. And Bush responded, this debate, the last debate and the next debate.

Bill Maher

#26. Jenna sighed, "What would a bodyguard do for us? Battle our invisible boyfriends?"
Vere laughed. "Heck yes. Invisible boyfriends can get really out of hand.

Anne Eliot

#27. Jenna still called it: 'The Incident That Can Not be Named'. As in, Vere's personal Voldemort.

Anne Eliot

#28. Vere blinked. And blinked. And blinked. And blinked.
OMG. Try to speak. Try.

Anne Eliot

#29. My guilt resided in my stomach, hence my need to constantly fill it with chocolate, and cookies, and cupcakes.

Meghan Ciana Doidge

#30. IN A WORLD WHERE BUNNIES RUN WILD

Anne Eliot

#31. Hey now, it issthhhh new technology. Dustin: "The dentissthh says all my teethtths will ssseparate if I don't keep it in."
Jenna: "But our eyes could separate if you don't take it out -

Anne Eliot

#32. He shrugged happily. Let's make plaid, canvas and compasses my absolute trademarks. Dustin McHugh. All plaid. All canvas. All the time. And I'm never lost. What say you, dork judge?

Anne Eliot

#33. If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say.
Brown Dog

Jim Harrison

#34. Everyone has scars, they just aren't as visible as yours

Anne Eliot

#35. Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#36. As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

D.T. Max

#37. Charlie snorted. Sure. Insta-friends with one of the world's most famous rock stars. ZERO weirdness. Check. And you're not my type either, dude.

Anne Eliot