Quotes About Man Made Things

#1. I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste.

David Lynch

#2. Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you've got to get out and see God's beauty of the world.

Michael Jackson

#3. What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Robert Browning

#4. One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

Richard Russo

#5. I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

John Harvey Kellogg

#6. 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.

Henry Ward Beecher

#7. I like things that are hand made - but personally for a man, I'm not interested in fashion that evolves with time. I like things to be the same. For a woman I think it's fantastic to have things that are different - it's like a flower where every season there's some new exotic bloom.

Roman Coppola

#8. Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

Friedrich Schiller

#9. The things ... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.

Marcus Aurelius

#10. Many years ago a friend of mine, Kevin O'Niel made a very profound comment ...

The difference between the love of God and the love of man is that man loves people or things because they are precious: but God simply loves us - and by loving us makes us precious.

Kevin King

#11. Ye cannot find out the depth of the heart of man, neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh; then how can ye search out God, that hath made all these things, and know His mind, or comprehend His purpose?

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.

Marcel Duchamp

#13. It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?

Charles Hodge

#14. No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all things properly."

Edmund Snow Carpenter

#15. When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

Shimon Peres

#17. A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#18. Bagger Vance: Don't make no sense is all ... Man say he don't play no golf when he out here this shade of night hittin balls off in the dark where he can't even see 'em ...
Rannulph Junuh: Yep ... Well, I've done things that have made less sense ...
Bagger Vance: As we all have ...

Steven Pressfield

#19. That man made me feel things I never imagined could be felt. He made me want things I wasn't sure I could have. He made me need things I didn't know existed.

Nicole Williams

#20. Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.

Henry De Montherlant

#21. Wilhelm's smile reminded Harry of his father's sad, resigned smile, the smile of a man looking backwards because that's where the things that made him smile were.

Jo Nesbo

#22. Our Lord tells us that the Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27): it is a witness to our creatureliness, to the fact that we can rest because the government of all things is not on our shoulders, and our Lord is King over all creation.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#23. Just glad you made it."

"Carson--"

"I needed you."

"You don't even know me."

"I know enough. Gonna keep you."

God the things that came out of the man's mouth.

Mary Calmes

#24. I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

H.G.Wells

#25. I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

Gillian Flynn

#26. 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

#27. No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

Ernest Hemingway,

#28. The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

Ford Madox Ford

#29. He had the eyes of a man that had seen things. Eyes that were soulful and wise, yet vibrant and sultry. Eyes that made me want to run away, yet urged me to stay.

S.L. Jennings

#30. For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

George Whitefield

#31. But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? ... Are we or they Lords of the World? ... And how are all things made for man?
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

H.G.Wells

#32. It's okay to feel bad about how things went down, but it's not okay to drown in guilt and regret every day for having made decisions other people don't agree with. At some point, we all have to man up and decide to do what we have to do, despite the people around us who try to get in the way.

M-E Girard

#33. I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

Harry Hay

#34. 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

#35. Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced ... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Charles Stanley

#36. I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.

Ryan Adams

#37. I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.

Ernest Borgnine

#38. Rubbing herself against a sleeping man just wasn't on. It was morally questionable. Probably illegal. Definitely icky. But why oh why did bad things always feel so damn good? Just once more, she promised herself as she pushed back into him again. "Addie, I am not made of stone.

Amy Andrews

#39. We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.

Frei Otto

#40. I remeber asking a wise man, once ... 'Why do Men fear the dark?' ... 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things
all things!
but only so long as it remains invisible.

R. Scott Bakker

#41. I was his fire, one look boiling his blood and turning him from a man who'd blush at a dirty word to one who'd make me feel like a virgin again, shying away from the scandalous things he whispered in my ear while he made me lick my come off his fingers.

Nicole Castle

#42. Funny, how things became very simple once a man's course was decided. It was the aimlessness of choice that made mischief, among both sidhe and mortals.

Lilith Saintcrow

#43. John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth,and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me.
Psalm 45:1
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Tamara Sanguinetti

#44. Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pampered goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.

Alexander Pope

#45. For nature does things in good order:
And birds and butterflies recognize
No man-made border

Ruskin Bond

#46. Truth is relative," the man replied. "Our minds have a tendency to remember things only the way in which they happened to us, the way they made us feel. It results in us inadvertently lying about what we experienced

Dylan Saccoccio

#47. The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.

Dante Alighieri

#48. Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Paulo Coelho

#49. To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Martha Graham

#50. Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

C.S. Lewis

#51. Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

Robert Anderson

#52. Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely made of all the sweet country things a man who hadn't eaten a good meal in a long time could imagine
molasses, sweet peas, sweet corn, freshly churned butter.

Linda Leigh Hargrove

#53. For most of my life, the world shrank and technology progressed; this was the natural order of things. Few of us clocked on that "the natural order of things" is entirely man-made, and that a world that kept expanding as technology regressed was not only possible but waiting in the wings.

David Mitchell

#54. It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great

#55. In this world there are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation.

Bryce Courtenay

#56. We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment ... [it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.

James Q. Wilson

#57. [He] was what people called a man's man. He fixed things and he had a deep laugh. He looked like he could carry you out of a burning building and he looked like the kind of man who would go back in to get your poodle. And even though he made fun of his own looks [...], I liked his face.

Amy Bloom

#58. Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

Nicholas Sparks

#59. Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.

Orison Swett Marden

#60. Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.

Stephen Fry

#61. It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

Vera Farmiga

#62. Whatever men make," she says, "what they felt when they made it is there ... Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

John Updike

#63. It belonged to the changeless order of things---the man desiring the woman only for what she withholds; the woman worshipping the man for that which she yields up to him. With each concession gained the man's desire cools; with every surrender made the woman's adoration increases...

Frank Norris

#64. Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?

Charles M. Schwab

#65. A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.

Jack Kirby

#66. I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

#67. There were thus two things which the Savior did for us by becoming Man. He banished death from us and made us anew; and, invisible and imperceptible as in Himself He is, He became visible through His works and revealed Himself as the Word of the Father, the Ruler and King of the whole creation.

Athanasius Of Alexandria

#68. Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm,
none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

Henry Van Dyke

#69. I think one of the things about Peter Parker that is so great, and what has made him and Spider-Man last so long is he is a kid that we all feel connected to, he's not an alien, he's not a millionaire, he's just this kid that has trouble asking girls out.

Marc Webb

#70. The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

Anthony Trollope

#71. All the things man has made are eventually destroyed.

Megan Whalen Turner

#72. There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

Otto Von Bismarck

#73. The bodies of irrational animals are bent toward the ground, whereas man was made to walk erect with his eyes on heaven, as though to remind him to keep his thoughts on things above.

Augustine Of Hippo

#74. What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.

Thomas Paine

#75. Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them.

Stephen Charnock

#76. Man was not made to be guilty, sin is not interesting, the only ethics are those which lead man toward the greater things he carries in himself.

Charles Kaiser

#77. Most suits made the man. Gideon did things to a three-piece suit that should've been illegal.

Sylvia Day

#78. Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things.

Epictetus

#79. All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.

Rockwell Kent

#80. There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy ... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.

Henry Bromell

#81. Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

H.G.Wells

#82. The things this man made me feel just by speaking was unreal. At times I wanted to weep from the sheer sensation of never before experienced feelings that I knew had already wrecked me for any other man.

Madeline Sheehan

#83. Alexis was now accustomed to his uncle's fatal disease as we are to all things that last around us; and because he had once made his nephew cry as the dead make us cry, the boy, even though his uncle was still alive, treated him like a dead man: he had begun to forget him.

Marcel Proust

#84. A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

Marcus Aurelius

#85. A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.

Alexander MacLaren

#86. He saw her face each time he closed his eyes. She haunted his thoughts, made him wish to do grand and wonderful things in her name, made him want to be a man who deserved to wear a crown.

Sarah J. Maas

#87. Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

Blaise Pascal

#88. No man is an island," he says. "Islands are made of dirt and rocks and trees. I don't know any people made of such things. Therefore, people are not islands.

Andrew Shaffer

#89. Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.

Allen Iverson