Made It Quotes - Page 15

• The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.

  John Lennon

  Music, Band, Made

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• I had wanted to come back to Greenwich Village ever since I had left Waverly Place, and since moving to West Eleventh Street, I have never lived anyplace else. I do not want to. That is not because of what the Village is but because of what I have made it, and what I have made it depends on who I am at the time.

  Mary Cantwell

  Happiness, Moving, Who I Am

  Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, when I was Young”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those who are excluded is widening day by day. The use of leading-edge technologies has made it possible to accumulate wealth in a way that is fantastic but perverse because it is unjustly distributed. Twenty-percent of humankind control eighty percent of all means of life. That fact creates a dangerous imbalance in the movement of history.

  Leonardo Boff

  Mean, Technology, Order

  Leonardo Boff (2001). “The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today”, p.43, Orbis Books

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• The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.

  Alan Greenspan

  Mean, Rights, Understanding

  "Alan Greenspan wants the US to go back on the gold standard" by Bill Bonner, www.businessinsider.com. July 10, 2016.

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• I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

  "Man's Search for Meaning". Book by Viktor Frankl, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1946.

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• I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.

  Althea Gibson

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• And I just hope that I'm forgiven for carin bout how they livin and loanin a little money and keepin em outta prison I aint lyin in my verses, I'm just tellin you the basics of growin up wit ya friends and becomin the one that made it

  Drake

  Real, Ems, Littles

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• I'm thankful for a pair of shoes that feel really good on my feet; I like my shoes. I'm thankful for the birds; I feel like they're singing just for me when I get up in the morning... Saying, 'Good morning, John. You made it, John.' I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down. I'm thankful.

  Johnny Cash

  Morning, Sea Breeze, Shoes

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• The modelling was fun but I don't see it the same as music, because with modelling, I was just kind of lucky, I just fell into it. I got discovered at a train station when I'd just turned 15, I was working full-time by 16, moved overseas and then just kept at it and made it a life. Whereas with my music, I've really struggled through and worked hard, learnt how to write and I've kept developing that.

  Erica Packer

  Funny, Hard Work, Writing

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• Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
  The periwinkle trails its wreath;
  And 'tis my faith that every flower
  Enjoys the air it breathes.
  
  The birds around me hopped and played,
  Their thoughts I cannot measure;
  But the least motion which they made,
  It seemed a thrill of pleasure.
  
  The budding twigs spread out their fan,
  To catch the breezy air;
  And I must think, do all I can
  That there was pleasure there.
  
  If this belief from heaven be sent,
  If such be Nature's holy plan,
  Have I not reason to lament
  What man has made of man?

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Flower, Men

  William Wordsworth, “Written In Early Spring”

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• Can't you see... that I made it? Yeah I made it First I made you who you are, but then I made it.

  Drake

  Breakup, Firsts, Bragging

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• So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, Country, Children

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• For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Success, Learning

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.24, Bantam

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• Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.

  William Gurnall

  Art, Prayer, Keys

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• We were so happy to be alive. There was a motel there pretty close. We had a big cup of coffee. Everybody had a room to themselves. But nobody wanted to go to bed. Everybody wanted to stay up and drink coffee and have doughnuts. We had made it. The weather was perfect when we woke up the next morning.

  Rod Hundley

  Morning, Coffee, Weather

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• Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse.

  Justin Guarini

  Congratulations, People, Lucky

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree, bounces back into a sandtrap, hits a stone, bounces on the green and then rolls into the cup. That shot is so difficult I have made it only once.

  Zeppo Marx

  Golf, Tree, Yards

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• Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be clear at first; but, if we think patiently, we shall find that it is true. Why were you angry? You will probably find that it w as because you were not willing to accept the world as God has made it, or because you were not willing to leave it to God to deal with the people that He has made.

  Stephen Neill

  Acceptance, Thinking, People

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• I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

  Pete Sampras

  Years, Tennis, Looks

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• No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

  Trey Gowdy

  Bad Ass, Law, Giving

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• You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. Jesus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me. Clear.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Jesus, Children

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• The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. This was lost last fall when shortages caused by the limitation of port facilities made it impossible to get sufficient supplies to the armies when they approached the German border.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, Fall, Army

  Speech to the Overseas Press Club, March 1, 1945.

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• Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Military, Fighting, Pride

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• We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.

  William Vogt

  Past, Garden, Water

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• I can't relate to these haters, my enemies never made it.

  Drake

  Hater, Humble, Enemy

  Song: The Resistance, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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