A good compromise a good piece of legislation is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men while envy is base and belongs to the base for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

But I say to you Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Whenever a man makes haste God too hastens with him.

Well I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad.

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.

We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God in his ultimate triumph and in his goodness and love which nothing can shake.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes to be sure but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

In the world at large people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden cause and effect labor and reward are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension then the more gardens in the world the more justice the more sense is created.

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

To get nostalgic about other people's music or even about your own makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan I'm a 'Wire' fan I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.

It is I claim nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

School is practice for the future and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect so why practice?

School is practice for the future and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

I have learned to live each day as it comes and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

Conservatism discards Prescription shrinks from Principle disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity it offers no redress for the present and makes no preparation for the future.