Made Quotes - Page 20

• There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Character, Knives

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• There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or another, but April had a way of holding me still. And then I'd begin to hurt and yearn for something I couldn't describe, something I hadn't known yet. All I knew was the ache itself and the strange, sweet feeling it was.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Running, Sweet, Hurt

  Elizabeth Chandler (1999). “I Do”, Bantam Books for Young Readers

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• She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding its shore, like a traveler returning after a long, hard, distant trip-- finally returning home.

  Lauren Kate

  Home, Sea, Long

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.314, Delacorte Press

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• Come on guys, you cant fight like this forever" "Actually," Simon said, raising his hand,"I can". Jace made a weird noise and I realized he was trying not to laugh-which by the way, wasn't working.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fighting, Hands, Laughing

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• But even as she told herself that, she remembered the way Cal had looked today with his shirt off while he’d stood on the ladder and scraped the side of Annie’s house. Watching those muscles bunch and flex every time he moved had made her crazy and she’d finally grabbed his shirt, thrown it at him, and delivered a stern lecture on the depletion of the ozone layer and skin cancer.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Cancer, Crazy, Ozone Layer

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• ...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

  Gene Wolfe

  Real, Flaws

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.119, Macmillan

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• It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" --she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should--"in a smelly old cave like this!

  Douglas Adams

  Taken, Opposites, Decision

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• I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Lines, Action

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• You;re colling me, So i fugure you must not hate me anymore. dOES THIS MEAN YOU WANNA GO OUT? iI'm free tonight. I mean , I have plans, but i can break them. For you. Brandon, you kidnapped me. And then you made the only person I'll ever love in my life hate me. I completely despise you. So..., I take that as a no, you do not want to go out with me tonight.

  Meg Cabot

  Hate, Mean, Doe

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• I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Tonight, Boots

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am not made for despair

  Lian Hearn

  Despair

  Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Jobs, People, World

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2010). “Cryoburn”, p.90, gfdg hfdhdg

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• She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

  Thomas Hardy

  Family, Mother, Party

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.1025, Open Road Media

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• A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see them every day--nondescript women with a bulge just above the groin, slightly double-chinned. Perpetually forty. Someone's mother, you think. There is a child somewhere who has made this woman into a mother, and for the sake of the child she has altered her appearance to better play the part.

  Joshua Ferris

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit. Work is love made visible

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Fashion, Heart

  Khalil Gibran, “Work Chapter VII”

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• You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I’d dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete and spending time with you just seemed right.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Guy, Together, World

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 28, 2011

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• I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Lasting Impressions, Impression

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.299, Scholastic Inc.

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• I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

  Jeannette Walls

  Thinking, Rushing, Feelings

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Art, Fall, Men

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.59, tredition

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• Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

  Virginia Woolf

  Goes On, Dose

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.42, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say anything at all and you just better hope you ain't in her way. That's the Lord's doing right there. He made mothers to be like that on account of children need protecting and the men ain't around to do it most of the time. Helping that child be up to the mama. But God never gives us a task without giving us the means to see it through. That mama worry come straight from Him, it make it so she can't help but look after that child.

  Hillary Jordan

  Mother, Children, Mean

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• I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I suppose I would have found some kind of hole and tried to hide or pass. After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. I would have hidden in my hole and been crippled by my sentimentality, doing what I was doing, and doing it well, but always looking for the wailing wall. And I would never have seen the world as the rich place that it is. You wouldn't have seen me here in Africa, doing what I do.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Wall, Ideas, Decision

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Lying, Book, Garden

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• Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Eye, Choices

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Beautiful And Damned”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Forever made that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Heart, Kissing, Forever

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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