Unmakes Quotes & Sayings

Sisters keep secrets.
Because sisters' secrets are swords. — Eleanor Brown

When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle

I forgot that little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has someday to cry aloud on the housetops. — Oscar Wilde

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph. — John Updike

In writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience. — Christina Baldwin

The world unmakes stuff faster than people can make it. — David Mitchell

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character. — Oscar Wilde

Aeriel felt her heart grow troubled. "I know," she said. "I know that he is evil, but his beauty unmakes me. Every time he looks at me, I die. — Meredith Ann Pierce

After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject. — Charles Darwin

A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you. — Nicolas Bouvier

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Her armpits were still slightly wet & she examined them one by one. No hair. This was one of her greatest assets over her sister who had underarm hair.Her slender arms & long legs were also free of hair. She had only a little bit of pubic hair, she noticed. It must be terrible to have lots of ugly underarm & thick coarse arm & leg hairs that you had to shave off daily, she thought. A bit more pubic hair, she wouldn't mind, she decided. But they tended to tickle men's nostrils & make them sneeze.[MMT] — Nicholas Chong

Because even though fear, hatred, and violence conspire to unmake the world, preemptive love unmakes violence. — Jeremy Courtney

I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face ... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me. — Marjane Satrapi

It's a guy thing. You offer to feed us and we will agree to just about anything. — Sherry D. Ficklin

My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car. — Aubrey De Grey

We've got to get into shape," I said to Lula. "We should go to a gym or something." "I'd sooner set myself on fire. — Janet Evanovich

I think a lot of the shame-based religious and political methodology has more to do with keeping people contained than with setting them free. And I'm no fan of it. — Donald Miller

Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met ... <3 — Owl City

He thought: Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther ... you've come to the end of things ... . He knew, suddenly, that he didn't want to leave the island. VI — Agatha Christie

Each October I walk into the woods
looking for bones: rabbit skulls,
a grackle spine, the pelvis of a deer
with the blood bleached out. What died
in the lush of roses and mint
shines out from the tangle of twigs
that bind it to the place
of its last leaping. The living lack
that kind of clarity. In late April,
when the water spreads out and out
till everything is lilies and seepage,
there is only the mystery of tracks,
a rustle receding in the many reeds.
And so the bones accumulate
across my windowsill: the flightless
wings and exaggerated grins,
the silent unmoving reminders
of where the glories of April lead. — Charles Rafferty

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous. — Henny Youngman

Dylan doesn't make plans. She unmakes plans. She has planaphobia. The fear of plans. — Katie Kacvinsky