In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Alexander Hamilton

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
Robert Mugabe

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
e. e. cummings

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.
Shania Twain

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
Alice Walker

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
Hubert H. Humphrey

I need drama in my life to keep making music.
Eminem

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Ambrose Bierce

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
Niels Bohr

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Denis Waitley

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Gloria Steinem

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
Barney Frank

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
Robin Williams

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."
Florence Scovel Shinn