| "It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision, a fleeting dream. But in the end, some lack in their moral fiber, some gnawing, nibbling fear held them back. They never started. They stayed where they were. They dropped back. They failed somehow to release within themselves that power which lies in every individual, and is released only when he starts forward in a straight line for the object about which he has dreamed. The man who never starts, never feels that sense of power." »Ray Dickinson |
| "Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament)" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success." »Vince Lombardi |
| "Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." »H.L. Mencken |
| "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." »Niels Henrik David Bohr |
| "There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success." »George Burton Adams |
| "Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "There are two kinds of talents, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while." »Pearl Bailey |
| "The day is coming, and it ain't going to be long, when you ain't even gonna have to leave your living room. No more schools, nor more bodegas, no more tabernacles, no more cinneplexes. You're going to snuggle up to your fiber optics baby and bliss out." »Andrew Schneider |
| "What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them....What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country" »Sitting Bull |
| "Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." »John F. Kennedy |
| "The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said 'Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,' and it must be so." »Native American |
| "But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second." »Vince Lombardi |
| "Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Batman You killed my parents. The Joker What What What are you talking about Batman I made you, you made me first. The Joker Give me a break. I was a kid when I killed your parents. When I say I made you you gotta say you made me. How childish can you get" »Batman |
| "Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is." »Bhagavad Gita |
| "He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." »Bern Williams |
| "From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned." »Immanuel Kant |
| "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another." »Anatole France |
| "Charlie Woman... woe-man... whoooa-man. She was a thief, you got to believe, she stole my heart and my cat. Judy, Betty, Josie and those hot Pussycats... they made me horny, on Saturday morning... girls of cartoo-ins will leave me in ruins... I want to to be Betty's Barney. Jane... get me off this crazy thing... called love." »So I Married an Axe Murderer |
| "Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance." »Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser |
| "I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe." »Abigail Adams |
| "Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture." »Anandabai Joshee |
| "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 Bromel |
| "No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." »Agnes de Mille |
| "Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." »Mark Twain |
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