Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
I feel no need for any other faith
than my faith in the kindness of human beings.
I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it
that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
- Pearl S. Buck
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery
of the relationship between men and women.
- Pearl S. Buck
If we were meant to be happy,
why did God create war, hunger, and the 11 o'clock news?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
For food that stays our hunger,
For rest that brings us ease,
For homes where memories linger,
We give our thanks for these.
- Anonymous
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Every spirit makes its house,
and we can give a shrewd guess
from the house to the inhabitant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
Faith never makes a confession.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
Love makes the world go 'round
- an old anonymous proverb,
made popular by the 1958 and 1961 songs
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys
on a minor planet of a very average star.
But we can understand the Universe.
That makes us something very special.
- Stephen Hawking
Knowledge of the Truth makes us free
by aligning us with that which was never bound.
- Ernest Holmes
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is far more important to be able to hit the target
than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor
makes you more human, more humble.
The sense of humor - according to me -
is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
- Osho
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