Quotation Explorer - 'Puts'

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away. - L. M. Montgomery
As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war. - Eugene B. Sledge
A warrior doesn’t worry. He or she evaluates the situation, investigates the source, calculates the risks and benefits, formulates a plan then puts it into action. - Shannon L. Alder
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. - Milton Friedman
Your heartbeat is a lullaby that puts my loneliness to sleep. - Xue Yun
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
No need to look to see if your former home has vanished yet into the humdrum gray behind you; you'll be able to feel it, the sudden eclipse of the tractor beam the house puts out. Of its forcefield of sadness. - Garth Risk Hallberg
Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes.It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt. - Judith Olney
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. - John Wayne
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music. - Conway Twitty
The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being. - Paul Tillich
What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The light that puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. - Henry David Thoreau
Memory puts a halo around everything it thinks has vanished forever. - Marty Rubin
Wondering why a person who puts always own benefits first in a job before the company’s interest, often spends the tenure longest and enjoy the time fullest as an employee in an organisation. - Anuj Somany
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle
Inspiration gives you energy, courage puts you in action. - Amit Kalantri
a wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. - Helen Rowland
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. - Maya Angelou
Every day I see lot of things cluttered in my surroundings. But that neither stresses me nor does it puts me down. Instead, it tells me that things will give you trouble if you see it as trouble. - Ashish Patel
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being. - Victor Hugo
Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. - Norman Cousins
Life is not profound without its own tragedy. It humbles us. Sets the bar for our introspection. Keeps us from believing we are gods. Puts our egos in check. - Crystal Evans
When we choose to love people and the wonderful things around us, it always puts us one step above the people who choose not too. There's a peace we'll carry in our hearts. A feeling of being worthy of all situations. - Ron Baratono
We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us a wall that keeps love out. - Vironika Tugaleva
Christmas has a dark side. It’s painful for those of us who lost loved ones during the holidays. What puts it back into sparkling perspective is knowing that Christ was born so that we might all be reunited again. That’s the real sparkle in Christmas. - Toni Sorenson
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place. - Fontenelle
Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over. - Neil Gaiman
I couldn't sleep 5/23/2016 and 5/24/2016 the time between them the night which puts differences between the day and split them. - Deyth Banger
We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth. - John Hodgman
Don't worry.When life puts you down,hope will push you up - Mohammed Sekouty
We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking. - Ai Weiwei
There are two types of obstacles in life; those we put in our on way to prohibit growth. And those that life puts in our way to promote growth. - Glenn A. Maltais
When feels that someone puts you aside, sometimes thinks in an act of selfishnessbut always its really to have afraid of something worst. - frank jymz
A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither. - Milton Friedman
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done. - William Shakespeare
When I asked him the meaning of life, Dr. Webb got very quit and then told me that life has no one meaning, it only has whatever meaning each of us puts on our own life. - John Corey Whaley
Fear the lion, fear the crocodile, but fear most the one that puts on the inevitable wear called the human flesh. - Auliq-Ice
I read this on the gates to a village cemetery: What you are, we used to be. What we are, you’re going to be. It puts things in perspective, doesn’t it? - Ivana Hruba
Fearlessness is better than a faint heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago. - Kevin Crossley-Holland
Sometimes the world puts a spin on life. When our equilibrium returns to us, we understand more because we've seen the whole picture.
The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.
A baby is born like a bird ready to soar from the mother’s lap. The nets of societal rules and regulations puts him in a cage from which he can never escape to create his own new world. - Debasish Mridha
With every rise in choices, the expectations double up which puts people deeper down into the rubble. - Ashish Patel
Never develop any mysticism, about love; for love itself is a mystic thing that puts you in a mystic situation. - Auliq Ice
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. - Oprah Winfrey
He who puts off the light of another had sown the seed of darkness into his own future. - Bamigboye Olurotimi
Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things. - Peter Bogdanovich
If someone puts you through hell, don’t be mad or bitter about it, because the thing that will free you from that hell is forgiveness. - Jeanette Coron
always serve too much hot fudge sause on the hot fudge sundaes.It makes people overjoyed,and puts them in your debt - Judith Olney
It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism - M.F. Moonzajer
We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out. - Paul Newman
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. - Leonardo da Vinci
Your dirty past somehow puts GOD's grace on blast; it amplifies the great grace of GOD over your life. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them. - Eduardo Galeano
Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends. - Tobias Wolff
I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things. - Karl Pilkington
When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some. - Harry A. Blackmun
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. - Jonathan Swift
Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law. - Walter Van Tilburg Clark
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. - Malcolm X
A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything. - Lydia Netzer
Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave. - Ernest Hemingway
I believe in one truth is horror, truth puts you in the darkness and it's difficult to find way out, lies are the lightness you hear the stuff which you want to hear. - Deyth Banger
The best blush to use is laughter. It puts roses in your cheeks and in your soul. - Linda Knight
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. - Henry A. Wallace
Piano music always puts me in deep thoughts mode. - Love The Stacks Bookstore
One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said Okay, I’m gonna tell you what to do. If the kid’s bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock... - Johnny Depp
The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people. - Anne Graham Lotz
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment - Oprah Winfrey
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. - Henry Rollins
Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing. - Stefan Zweig
When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The headline reads, "Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics." This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, "Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, "Stop me before I prescribe again."
Sometimes, God puts you in a position where you have no option but to trust Him. - Steven Chopade
He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already. - Frederich Nietzsche
If your wife puts on ten pounds, love her ten times more.If she puts on a hundred pounds, love her a hundred times more.If she puts on a thousand pounds, love her a thousand times more. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Seeds are proof that God puts within you what is supposed to enrich the world around you. - Matshona Dhliwayo
It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride. Someone who would do anything to keep it the way it was in the beginning. - Jodi Picoult
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do. - W. Somerset Maugham
When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them. - Tennessee Williams
Time puts everything in place and gives it value. - Sunday Adelaja
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. - Saul Bellow
You are that one breath. that puts all the remaining breaths. back into my body. - Sanober Khan
Whether fate or fortuitous,The voyage is incessant.Life is gratuitous,It's regrets recrudescent.We so blindly see adversely,Linear to some 'decree'.Sentenced by each other,To live this critically.To err is Human,Ironic that we divest.For any man who puts that past him,No misfortunes he has left. - Alen Joans
You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning. - Jon Stewart
There's nothing more devastating in a marriage than when a spouse puts their work, their desires above their partner's heart. - Solange nicole
The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through. - Caitlin Moran
...Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out of the world through somebody else’s eyes. It’s very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you’ve just read a book by one of those people. - Neil Gaiman
When life puts you in tough situations, don’t say why me, say try me - ?????????????????
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head. - Carolyn Davidson
She laughs an honest laugh... one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better. - C. JoyBell C.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday. - Unknown
[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start."(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975) - P.G. Wodehouse
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself. - Erin Morgenstern
A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back—bruised and aching—as he continues to strive for excellence due to the all-consuming obsession and love for his art. - H.G. Mewis
Mosquitoes, how wonderful! No one puts them in cages or makes pets out of them. - Marty Rubin
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance. - Slavoj Žižek
Start focusing your attention on the people that God puts you with, even if they hate you, even if they persecute you and speak bad things about you. Work with them and pray for them! - Pastor Adelaja Sunday
CALVIN:As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight. - Bill Watterson
Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized. - Thomas Moore
He marries best who puts it off until it is too late. - H. L. Mencken
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself. - Albert Einstein
Smile puts a smile on all the good things in the world - Munia Khan
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. - Homer
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love - Germaine de Staël
You think some are bad or evil or whatnot, but somewhere along the way they were someone's baby, suckling the teat like anybody. Then something puts a volt in 'em and they ain't the same no more. - Alan Heathcock
Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking. - Wilhelm von Humboldt
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. - Aaron Copland
Love in action puts a mind at ease. It creates wonders and good feelings. Such is the magic word that when you allow it to flow freely, it awakens every human heart, and uplifts every human spirit. - Rita Barnes
A man can be knocked down a thousand times and can still get back up, but when he puts himself down he has defeated himself more than a million others could have done. - Stephen Richards
I believe money and celebrity only reveals what is broken and puts it on display for all to see. - Suzette Hinton
Stairs are your teacher; they teach you to be stronger. Love your teacher and every time life puts some stairs before you, accept them as a present! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - Malcolm X
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