Makers Quotes - Page 28

• If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Book, People

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• To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.

  Max Lucado

  Children, Father, Trying

  Max Lucado (2012). “Wild Grace: What Happens When Grace Happens”, p.141, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We have a society where every hit maker and TV presenter is gay.

  Elton John

  Gay, Tvs, Presenter

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.

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• It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.

  Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

  Law, Opposites, Action

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• Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Wrath, Hymns

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.65, Delphi Classics

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• the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Rosary, Plowing, Firsts

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1313, Library of Alexandria

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• We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sex, War, Earthquakes

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• I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Thinking, Office

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.71, University Press of Kentucky

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• Think not thou canst sigh a sigh
  And thy maker is not by;
  Think not thou canst weep a tear
  And thy maker is not near.

  William Blake

  God, Thinking, Tears

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.60, Routledge

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• The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Islands, Jamaica, Perfect

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.129, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• ... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

  Carolyn Wells

  Eye, Library, Wish

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• What is a woman that you forsake her,
  And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
  To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Women, Heart, Home

  'Puck of Pook's Hill' (1906) 'Harp Song of the Dane Women'

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• I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to guide them. But most of the busy love-makers I knew were looking for masculinity rather than practicing it. They were fellows of dubious lust.

  Ben Hecht

  Numbers, Lust, Juan

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What's the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Confused, Athlete

  Martina Navratilova, George Vecsey (1986). “Being myself”

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• If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.

  Clara Barton

  Brother, Men, Law

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• ... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Men, Thinking, Dancing

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• [The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

  Benito Mussolini

  Lonely, Men, Age

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• Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker.

  Joseph Hertz

  Men, Dust, Overcoming

  "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs". Edited by Joseph H. Hertz, Genesis II, 7 (p. 7), 1937.

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• Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.

  Joseph Hertz

  Men, Sacred, Privilege

  Joseph Herman Hertz (1936). “Hamishah Humshe Torah Im Ha-Hafterot: Genesis”

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• No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class of money-makers ever gained such prosperity by any other war, as our War for the Union brought to the money-getters of America. All this was due in great measure to the rank and file of the Union army. Now let no rich man haggle with a needy veteran of that war about his right to a pension!

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Army, Men

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• When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn't feel good. It's just that simple. Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and you be the joy-seeker that you are.

  Esther Hicks

  Adversity, Simple, Feel Good

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• Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

  Laura Riding

  Sleep, Poetry, Listening

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• I've come to realize that I'm a image maker, not an object maker. Images come to me as photographs because I don't have any other way of express them. I have to translate everything into still or moving pictures. I've learned that reality is not important to me. In the end it is the representation of reality that I'm striving to capture.

  Gerardo Suter

  Moving, Reality, Important

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• Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still.

  Caroline Emelia Stephen

  Heart, Silence, May

  Caroline Emelia Stephen (1908). “Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance”

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• To wear long faces, just as if our Maker,
  The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

  John Wolcot

  Long, Hypocrisy, Faces

  John Wolcot (1797). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.116

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