I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
If you make a habit of buying things you do not need, you will soon be selling things you do.
You don't kill a gypsy by cutting him in ten pieces -- you only make ten more gypsies.
A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little hole - this refers to a difference in function. Thoroughbreds like Qiji and Hualiu could gallop a thousand li in one day, but when it came to catching...
If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days," he said, his voice slow and deep and intent. "I would use my mouth on you, until no part of your skin went untouched, and I would make y...
Accept myself, and expect more of myself. Give myself limits to give myself freedom. Make people happier by acknowledging that they’re not feeling happy. Plan ahead to be spontaneous; only with careful preparation do I feel carefree. Accomplish mor...
Not only do we all have magic, it's all around us as well. We just don't pay attention to it. Every time we make something out of nothing, that's an act of magic. It doesn't matter if it's a painting or a garden, or an abuelo telling his grandchildre...
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. A book that does nothing to you is dead. A baby, whether it does anything to you, represents life. If a bad fire should break out in this house and I had my choice of saving the library or the babies, I...
Behrani: [Praying for his dying son] Please, God, don't take my joon-am. I make my nazr. My nazr, hear me, please to hear me. I will give everything to one who is less fortunate. Yes! I will make it for the broken bird. Please, God, I'm making nazr t...
P.L. Travers: Why did you have to make him so cruel? He was not a monster! Don DaGradi: Who are we talking about? I'm confused. P.L. Travers: You all have children, yes? And do those children make letters for you? Do they write letters? Do they make ...
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
To make good conversation there are a thousand subjects, but there are still those who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.
Where rich people can make honest money, poor people have to steal.
Just as a bamboo cane forms a round jet of water, so taking counsel together makes men of one mind.
If a rich man steals it is a mistake; if a poor man makes a mistake he has stolen.
Don't try to make someone hate the person he loves, for he will still go on loving, but he will hate you.
On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.
Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone who joins fully understands his duties and obligations and is willing, in Christ's strength, to undertake them.
