M Quotes
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“My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.”
Source: Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1848-1851
“My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.”
“My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.”
Source: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
“My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder. An it isn't so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires - though a lot of churches are that, too. My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.”
“My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.”
“My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.”
“My objections to Marx are of two sorts: one, that he was muddle-headed; and the other, that his thinking was almost entirely inspired by hatred.”
“My objective always is to stay as close as possible and shoot the pictures as if through the eyes of the infantryman, the Marine, or the pilot. I wanted to give the reader something of the visual perspective and feeling of the guy under fire, his apprehensions and sufferings, his tensions and releases, his behavior in the presence of threatening death.”
“My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .”
“My objective has always been to get better, no matter where my ranking is.”
“My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.”
“My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump.”
“My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests... responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.”
“My objective is that I don't try to do the same thing. I try not to emulate something I've done before. And, I'm a real people watcher, so I like trying to play characters that are as diverse from each other as possible, simply because it's more fun for me, actually.”
“My objective is to build a bridge to a person, to establish a dialogue.”
“My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden. It is actually much simpler than that, otherwise art would have no meaning. You have to be a child—incidentally children understand my pictures very well, and I haven’t met a serious critic who could stand knee-high to those children. We think that art demands special knowledge; we demand some higher meaning from an author, but the work must act directly on our hearts or it has no meaning at all.”
“My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.”
“My objective is to destroy anybody over 200 pounds, in the ring or out.”
“My objective is to identify the Research Challenges and to take progressive steps addressing the root cause of diseases.”
“My objective is to satisfy [my] audience so they come back the next day.”
“My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.”
“My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.”
“My objects dream and wear new costumes,
compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands
and the sea that bangs in my throat.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.”
“My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.”
“My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.”
“My obligation is to release the music the way Frank [Zappa] released it.”
“My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.”
“My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of the great doctrines of Divine grace.”
Source: A PASTOR'S SKETCHES
“My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.”
“My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.”
“My observation is that my dealings with the president on some of the most important issues that the president Donald Trump has to face are as professional and as thoughtful as the American people deserve. The president's handling these duties in a way that I'm incredibly proud of to be part of his team.”
“My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations
“My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.”
Source: Straight Talk to Men: Timeless Principles for Leading Your Family
“My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.”
Source: It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News
“My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.”
“My observations of high altitude observatory workers is that they seem to have elevated levels of behavioral problems that eventually progresses into ill health, disease and premature death for some.”
“My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.”
“My obsession is getting stronger every fucking day.”
Source: Seduction by Death: Seduction Series
“My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.”
“My obsession when I was kid, from '85 into the '90s, was Gianni Versace. It was Helmut Lang. It was Margiela. So I said, "I cannot have Givenchy only as a luxury house; I'm going to introduce products for everybody, things that are reachable."”
“My obsession with Ayana was a double-edged sword. I craved her presence even when it drove me mad; I fixated on her absence even when it consumed my thoughts.
Whether she was near or far, I suffered.”
“My obsession with cars is based on my obsession with the environment. Food, housing and transportation are the three big human and environmental issues. That's where most of our resources go and where most of our pollution is generated...Transportation is the big elephant in the bedroom that no one wants to seriously discuss.
(from an interview in Attitude, 2002)”
“My obsession with Mrs. Thompson turns a shade darker each day.
She’s my Lucy. My little brute.
She is perfect.
I must be scaring her. Oh, hell, she must be absolutely terrified by this point. That thought makes me damned jubilant.
She needs to be scared. Because I? I am not a good man.
Far from it.
337 days left of my sentence. I am counting the days until the fun can really begin…”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.”
“My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish poems to my "crappy poems" file.”
“My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.”
“My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.”
“My occupation doesn't really allow for routines, but I'm pretty consistent about tea in the morning.”
“My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.”