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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

Quote by Walter Pater about absent, habits, people, failure, common sense, sense, things, world

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Quote by Cesare Pavese about children, recollection, imagination, faith, world, life

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water, also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the...

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about food, water, man

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous, by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

Quote by James Payn about philosophy, poverty, hope

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize.

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about mind, things

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about good, good luck, contentment, people

It makes me believe in fate, in most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about destiny, bad luck, faith, bad

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Quote by Pablo Picasso about art, lie, magic, truth

Take time for all things great haste makes great waste.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin about time, waste, things

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about love, impossible, family, sex, world, life

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about religion, faith, being, things

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about pasion, youth, things, world

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Quote by Dale Carnegie about enthusiasm, quality, common sense, sense, success

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this no dog exchanges bones with another.

Quote by Adam Smith about man

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

Quote by Adam Smith about animals

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Quote by George Herbert about war, thieves, peace

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, events, risk, need, things, good, good luck, contentment

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about opinion, mother

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about opinion, power, contentment, things

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Quote by Walt Disney about opinion, communication, mind, man