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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Emile M. Cioran

Ambition, Potential, Madmen

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
Charles Dickens

Love, Baby, Round

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
Doug Coupland

Christmas, Sad, Everything

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell

Politics, Good, Wise

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Malcolm Forbes

Old, Getting, Less

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.
Chuck Palahniuk

Feelings, Living, Others

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Walt Whitman

Universe, Object, Soft

Opportunity makes a thief.
Francis Bacon

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

Love, Great, Bad

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
Jim Carrey

Respect, Happy, Try

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Change, Great, Young

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Andrew Jackson

Life, Good, Country

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Lord Byron

Help, Humanity, Thinking

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Denis Waitley

Work, Time, Winners

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Denis Waitley

Life, Through, Eyes

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.
Christopher Meloni

Work, Good, Job

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.
Phyllis Battelle

Life, Heart, Saying

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
Nolan Bushnell

Person, Everyone, Off

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale

Life, Work, Time

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas Fuller

Travel, Wise, Fool

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Dickinson

Life, Again, Sweet

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
Chuck Palahniuk

Book, Joy, Impossible

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin Disraeli

Treat, Foreign, Concern

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
William Blake

God, Men, Another

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Horace

Great, Truth, Art

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
W. Somerset Maugham

Happiness, Men, Character

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Grantland Rice

Wise, Opinion, Decisions

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
Donald Trump

Great, Trying, Country

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.
Tia Mowry

Work, Chance, Second

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