Made Quotes

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

I'm trying to feel terrified and alone. And regret every decision I've ever made, drenched in a cold sweat. It's called going to sleep. Maybe you've heard of it.

Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.

I've made this conscious decision to tell people on the street when I think they're wearing something great. If more people did that, the world would be a better place.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

You didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

The fact is every single day in the ordinary American people, America's families have to make decisions about their families and that should be made by them, not by the Texas or United States.

Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.

I've been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.

Some of our jokes we made up on the fly. I love Lecrae; we have been friends for a while and he is just one of my favorite people.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

A good poet's made as well as born.

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.

The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.

It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing

I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.

The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.