The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
A good husband makes a good wife.
Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Julia progresses from cradle to grave showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy high unemployment falling wages rising gas prices the national debt the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs or a bee makes honey or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
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.