Made Quotes
22271 quotes by 10247 authors
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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
— Saint Augustine
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
— John F. Kennedy
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People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It…
— Louis C. K.
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She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
— George Henry Lewes
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In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know…
— Malcolm X
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They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight…
— Malcolm X
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
— Isaac Watts
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I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
— Thomas Jefferson
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True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
— Mark Twain
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And one more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe that the loving…
— Ronald Reagan
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If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
— Martin Luther
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that…
— Annie Besant
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He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating…
— Clement of Alexandria
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