Made Quotes
22271 quotes by 10247 authors
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are.
— Edgar Cayce
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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he…
— Maria Montessori
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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many…
— Joseph Addison
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I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.
— Thomas Carlyle
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When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
— Cyril Connolly
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That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.
— William Shakespeare
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using…
— Cesar Chavez
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When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But…
— Paulo Coelho
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Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time…
— John Tyler
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Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.
— Groucho Marx
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
— Moliere
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I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.
— Richard M. Nixon
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In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.
— J. G. Holland
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