Made Quotes

America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: Receive the Holy Ghost. And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

Some people have made a fortune by being employed. Jerry Bruckheimer does not own his content. Warner Bros. owns his shows. They are on CBS, and he makes a fortune.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares?

I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

All of the major accomplishments that I have made in my career have been in many instances against the odds.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?