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I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

Company

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money....

Concrete

My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.

Changing Planes

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

Decoded

Making love with you is even more wonderful than making music." He drew her closer. "Och, Sarah, you _are_ my music.

Defiant

Never make choices that will make you hurt others. If you will not help them, don’t hurt them!

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

And fairy tales are make-believe. They are the stories we tell to small children to make them believe the world is a far better place than it really is.

Deep Into the Soul

The woman at the next table is making eyes at you,” Lanie said, whispering conspiratorially. “Really? What does she make them out of? Cloth?

The Do-Over

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.

East of Eden

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

The Ersatz Elevator

Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you’re making up. You shouldn’t let that bother you.

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness And Making Miracles

He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life.

Enchanted

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Eragon

It was as if the blinders to his vision had been lifted and he wanted to make up for every moment the two of them had missed.

Finding Eden

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

'Nothing can make death easier,' Cala said, 'but silence can make it harder.' 'Speaking helps not,' Maia said.

The Goblin Emperor