#makes

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#carry #considering #contract #earth #every

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill. ↗

— Ivana Trump

#because #bill #even #everything #fees

Nutrition makes me puke. ↗

— Jimmy Piersall

#me #nutrition #puke

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#does #makes #me #stronger

The word that almost makes me throw up is satin; damask makes me throw up. ↗

— Billy Baldwin

#makes #me #satin #throw #up

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#force #gun #humor #might_makes_right #technology

In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#souls #what-makes-us-who-we-are #change

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#business

Martin is always telling me to put all of this behind me, to get on with my life. But the thing is, before Jesse, I never really had a life. I had a routine. I did things. But aside from the accident”—he gestured with his prosthetic arm—“nothing ever happened to me. But she happened. And it was like a train wreck. It was big and painful and beautiful and every second mattered. You know what Beaudelaire said about love? It’s ‘an oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.’ But it’s still an oasis. Our time together—that’s the story of my life. Everything before her was just the boring setup. Like the first hour of a miniseries, the part that’s just padding to stretch it out for three nights. And the time since she’s gone—that’s just been some sort of weird, dragged-out anticlimax. I can feel myself sitting in the audience watching my life and wondering, ‘Why isn’t this movie over? ↗

— Phoef Sutton

#one-who-makes-a-difference #beauty

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#men-mars-women-venus #love