A Quotes
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“A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.”
Source: More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian
“A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.”
Source: Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson
“A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser.”
“A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations.”
“A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.”
Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“A mere society form of Atheism.”
“A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.”
“A mere two days without eating and you passed out. It must be tough not being able to photosynthesize.”
Source: Knights of Sidonia, Band 1
“A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.”
“A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.”
“A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.”
“A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.”
“A merger is not a mere arithmetic addition of balance sheets; it's a profound organizational rebirth or resurrection. For the elite Private Equity firm, an acquisition represents the necessary death of the acquired organizations stagnant paradigm so that a more vital, dominant entity may be born.”
“A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.”
“A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.”
“A meritocracy is a core foundation of American values.”
Source: A More Perfect Union: Unifying Ideas for a Divided America
“A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms of family support, encouragement and, probably, income; luckiest in their educational and career opportunities; and luckiest in so many other ways difficult to enumerate - these are the folks who reap the largest rewards.”
“A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.”
“A merry Christmas to all my friends except two.”
“A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!”
“A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.”
“A merry companion is as good as a wagon.”
Source: The Dramatic Works: With Notes and Some Account of His Life and Writings : in Two Volumes
“A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.”
“A merry heart is good like a medicine.”
“A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.”
“a mesma força
que faz a galáxia girar
está dentro de nós”
Source: Inverno do Coração (Versos de Riz de Ferelas)
“A mesma verdade dos raciocínios (veritas counexionum) não foi instituída pelos homens, mas constatada e posta em fórmulas por eles, para poderem aprendê-la ou ensiná-la. A verdade fundamenta-se de modo permanente na razão das coisas e foi estabelecida por Deus.”
Source: A doutrina cristã
“A mess. That's what I was, at this lonely number thirty-seven bus-stop.
And here I am, still a mess.
A mess with no messages on her phone. Let alone a message with three kisses.”
Source: The Places I've Cried in Public
“A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.”
“A message came on the wireless for me. It said: ''. So the time had come, I thought, Eighth Army was taking the offensive. The date was, I think, May18th,1942.”
“A message denotes a specific, concrete statement about the world. But the forms of our media, including the symbols through which they permit conversation, do not make such statements. They are rather like metaphors, working by unobtrusive but powerful implication to enforce their special definitions of reality. Whether we are experiencing the world through the lens of speech or the printed word or the television camera, our media-metaphors classify the world for us, sequencing it, frame it, enlarge it, reduce it, color it, argue a case for what the world is like.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“A message from a flower: "Do not pick me. I want to live".”
“A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.”
“A message in a bottle is one of the most intriguing things that you can find, the circumstance and method of delivery forever hidden but just the message sitting there, enigmatic, to decode.”
“A message, like a fortune cookie, dropped into my inbox yesterday. It said: “Everything I touch sparkles, my energy is contagious & all those connected to me – wins… I can’t say for sure if it’s true, but thank you from the bottom of my heart for such sentiments.
Darling listen – I want you to also take a moment today to reach out to someone who’s been a lucky charm in your life. Send them a carrier pigeon with a Thank-You note!
Sweetheart, your vibes, energy & touch also have incredible power. Think about the people you care about & the ones whose lives you’re woven into. Are you making them feel lucky to have you around? Are your thoughts, words & actions adding sunshine to their day or leaving them feeling like they accidentally stepped into a grumpy cloud.
Let you always strive to become the person whose presence brings joy, whose thoughts inspire, whose actions make a difference. Let you make people laugh in grocery stores, dance in small gatherings & to sing in elevators.
Let your journey be meaningful & your impact undeniable. Blessings!”
“A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.”
“A message that points to the marriage altar as the starting gate of God’s calling for women leaves us with nothing to tell them except that God’s purpose for them is not here and now, but somewhere down the road.”
Source: Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women
“A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.”
“A message to parents who think legalizing weed will make their kids want to try it: they will anyway.”
“A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.”
“A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!”
“A messiah is just a mortal, minus all the indifference.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“A messianic Jew is a Jewish person that believes Jesus Christ is the savior.”
“A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!”
“A messy life isn’t the end — it’s a chapter, not the whole story. There’s still time, still space, and always a chance to begin again and choose better.”
Source: Tales of Habib the Hoaxter: Sometimes Hoaxed, Always Good for a Laugh
“A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.”
“A meta-analysis of almost two hundred studies conducted in more than fifteen countries found that women are more physically and emotionally exhausted than men, accounting for their higher rates of burnout in many sectors, such as media. "An awful lot of middle-aged women are furious and overwhelmed," wrote Ada Calhoun in a 2016 article titled "The New Midlife Crisis: Why (and How) It's Hitting Gen X Women." What we don't talk about enough is how the deck is stacked against their feeling any other way.”
Source: Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
“A metafora az egyik módja, hogy elvesszünk a látszat világában, vagy hogy mozdulatlanul álljunk a látszat tengerében.”
“A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.”