Top 100 Made To Quotes
#1. The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.
Alan Greenspan
#2. Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
Benito Mussolini
#3. Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?
Gerrard Winstanley
#4. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#5. Why are you doing this?" One of his hands caressed the books.
"Because books are made to be read," I told him. "And you like to read.
Katherine Allred
#6. A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules
Robert Axtell
#7. It was a sacrifice worthy of her and dreams are made to be killed.
David Louden
#8. Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.
Jim Bridenstine
#9. Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.
Sara Blakely
#10. Education isn't play
and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
Thomas A. Edison
#11. Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.
Charles Fourier
#12. Twentieth-century man needs to be reminded at times that work is not the result of the Fall. Man was made to work, because the God who made him was a 'working God.' Man was made to be creative, with his mind and his hands. Work is part of the dignity of his existence.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#13. Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
#14. So, what do they pay you for ... exactly?"
Slapped around. Tied up. Beaten. Given orders, made to do things."
"What kind of things?"
"You know."
No, I can't even begin to imagine."
"Lick my boots, crawl on floor, eat like dog."
"Nothing useful, then, like hoovering?
Kate Atkinson
#15. Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.
Swami Vivekananda
#17. Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint at being somehow perhaps on the verge or answering) a question that someone might conceivably want asked."
David Quammen
#18. Chelsea are not made to play football. We're good on the counter, a little bit like Real against Bayern.
Eden Hazard
#20. How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.
Chanakya
#21. Love, unlike bills, never lasted. Hearts were made to wander.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#22. I was made to believe that my life was going to be fixed and it wasn't. I'm still the same loser who had flown to Los Angeles on my sister's frequent flier miles just six days before.
Mike Birbiglia
#23. I have to protect you Kisa-Anna. I believe I was made to protect you.
Tillie Cole
#24. I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.
Colin Firth
#25. In Paris extremes are made to meet by passion. Vice is constantly binding the rich to the poor, the great to the mean.
Honore De Balzac
#26. Laws are made to free people, not to bind them - if they are the proper laws. They tell each of us what he may do without transgressing on the equal liberty of any other man.
Louis L'Amour
#27. People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.
Abbas Kiarostami
#28. Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.
Vijay Kumar
#29. some people go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see all it may contain; and
Evan S. Connell
#30. Some neglect their virginity and are made to pay dearly for it.
Sunday Adelaja
#31. If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.
Giada De Laurentiis
#32. I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.
George Bernard Shaw
#33. She had lived her life trying to look straight at things, straight at them knowing that there would come a day when she would look at something so hard that it would look right back and break her. Well, wasn't she made of flesh and bone? Wasn't she made to break? Sure. Wasn't she a woman?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#34. She was like milk - too pale, too pure, too simple. She was made to be spoiled.
Sarah Waters
#35. The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
Ann Voskamp
#37. I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.
Ben Rector
#38. He didn't see the look his brothers shared or overhear the vow they made to one another
that if any one of the four of them were to make it back from Ticonderoga, it would be Iain.
Pamela Clare
#39. Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
Robert Burns
#40. I'm tired of lying governments. I'm tired of people not caring whether they're being lied to any more. I'm tired of being made to feel this fearful. I
Ali Smith
#41. The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
Caleb Cushing
#42. Christ preaches only servitude and dependence ... True Christians are made to be slaves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#43. There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.
Julius Streicher
#44. I still have very normal insecurities, but I've always been made to feel like a body is a body, and it's not supposed to look like what you see in the media.
Nikki Reed
#45. I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.
Alexander Payne
#46. Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron
#47. Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
James Madison
#48. Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.
Rick Yancey
#49. Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
Douglas MacArthur
#50. How easily we are made to feel, I thought, and with what little foundation, with no foundation at all. At
Garth Greenwell
#51. In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
Ahmed Ben Bella
#52. For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.
Francis Bacon
#53. I hope that Belief never is made to appear mandatory.
E.B. White
#54. Make mistakes, Lille. Walk on the cracks. Break the rules that were made to be broken.
L. H. Cosway
#55. My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
Eric Clapton
#56. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
Daniel Webster
#57. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.
Abraham Lincoln
#58. As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.
Kerry Washington
#59. So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? ... I think our judgment has to be clearly not.
Colin Powell
#60. Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them in that conviction; and, therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#61. She was reserved and cold, as if having been stolen from her native village in a burlap sack and made to be servant and helpmate to an Englishman many years her senior, for some reasons sat poorly with her.
Ben H. Winters
#62. I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.
Nancy Mitford
#63. Made to observe the vastness of our world, the greater breadth and depth of stars unfurled, the mind can grasp an order and a plan and ponder the deep question, "Who is man?
Mary Angeline Bell
#64. success is not always measured in terms of dollars earned or turnover. It is measured in terms of the difference you have made to the people around you.
Ravi Subramanian
#65. There can be no doubt that the blessing, of which believers are heirs, is justification by faith; and that the promise, according to which they are heirs of this blessing, is the gospel promise made to Abraham.
Adoniram Judson
#66. Women are made to be loved, not to be understood.
Oscar Wilde
#67. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.
Gretchen Rubin
#68. Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Lee Simonson
#69. Mischa, we take comfort in knowing there is no God. That you are not enslaved in Heaven, made to kiss God's ass forever. What you have is better than Paradise. You have blessed oblivion. I miss you every day.
Thomas Harris
#70. And although he tried every day to remember the promise he'd made to her, every day it became more and more remote, until it was just a memory, and so was she, a beloved character from a book he'd read long ago.
Hanya Yanagihara
#71. Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought.
Maria Shriver
#73. I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
Karl Lagerfeld
#74. Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
#75. Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.
James Fenimore Cooper
#76. There could never be a more beautiful you; dont buy the lies, disguises and hoops they make you jump through; you were made to fill a purpose that only you could do; so there could never be a more beautiful you.
Jonny Diaz
#77. You were the vessel of evil. The Evil is poured out. It is done. It is buried in it's own tomb. You were never made for cruelty and darkness; you were made to hold light
Ursula K. Le Guin
#79. Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
Nicolas Roeg
#80. That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken
Nenia Campbell
#81. Most effectively, if we are made to feel accountable in our judgments, we will spend more time looking at angles and possibilities before making up our minds - and so will expend the correctional
Anonymous
#82. God made the angels to show Him splendor, as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But Man He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of his mind.
Thomas More
#83. In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
Antonin Artaud
#84. For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.
Michael Bay
#85. The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This has often been the approach of those who call themselves scientists and technologists.
Frank Herbert
#86. Chani sat back on her heels, submerging her fears in thought as she studied Paul's face. This was a trick she had learned from watching the Reverend Mothers. Time could be made to serve the mind.
Frank Herbert
#87. In my heart of hearts I believe I was made to entertain.
Derek Luke
#88. Comparisons are made to make the other person fall short.
Nora Roberts
#89. These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
Samuel Hopkins
#90. Humans weren't made to be perfect, Daniel. We were made to screw up, fuck up, and learn new things. We were made perfectly imperfect.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#91. where hyperspatial engineers sucked matter through white holes in space to form it into dream planets - gold planets, platinum planets, soft rubber planets with lots of earthquakes - all lovingly made to meet the exacting standards that the Galaxy's richest men naturally came to expect.
Douglas Adams
#92. Was that suit made to order? Where were you at the time?
Henny Youngman
#93. God hasn't called us to something in a year. We're called for the here and now. We were not made to survive today for some potential future endeavor, something that maybe he'll do through us one day.
Mark Hall
#94. What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?
Berenice Abbott
#95. We were made to exercise. We feel better.
Bob Greene
#96. I believe that all women should have children. I think women are made to have children and to be mothers. I also think women have to have an identity outside the home.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#97. Only people can be made to increase in value. Computers and other equipment depreciate and eventually become obsolete.
Brian Tracy
#98. We should never stop at having won a soul for Christ. By this, we have done only half the work. Every soul won for Christ must be made to be a soul-winner.
Richard Wurmbrand
#99. I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month.
Bertrand Russell
#100. Don't fuck this up, it will be the worst decision you have made to date- and holy hell, have there been a lot of bad decisions made on your part over the years.
Jay Crownover
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