M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My sense from talking to college students is that you have a healthier sense of the diversity of opinions or arguments or analysis about issues. In our day it was just sort of, "Well gee, this is what the news says so that's the way it is." It didn't really get challenged that much.”
“My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.”
“My sense is that beautiful women are living in a different world than I am, and that it's a world with benefits but also drawbacks - like, you're on a ticking clock, because the day you stop being supermodel-beautiful is the day that everything the world has to offer you is no longer being offered.”
“My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.”
“My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.”
“My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-cl ass young people who were native-born, who felt they were entitled to have something for free, because that's what they were used to.”
“My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.”
Source: The Message
“My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.”
“My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning sustainable agricultural production. Forests regulate hydrological services including the quantity, quality, and timing of water available for irrigation. Forest-based bats and bees pollinate crops. Forests mitigate impacts of climate change and extreme weather events at the landscape scale.”
“My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.”
“My sense is that we are looking at unbelievable quantities of wealth moving from the control of the kingdom of darkness, to the control of the Kingdom of God.”
“My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we are a species with amnesia; that we've lost the record of our story going back thousands of years before so-called history began, and I think that if we could go back to that dark epoch, we would discover many astounding things about ourselves.”
“My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound to recognize another person's declared or enacted sense of sex and/or gender. We do not have to agree upon the "origins" of that sense of self to agree that it is ethically obligatory to support and recognize sexed and gendered modes of being that are crucial to a person's well-being.”
“My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind.”
“My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done.”
“My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.”
“My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.”
“My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists.”
“My sense of being human shall not affect your sense of being animal”
“My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.”
“My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.”
“My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.”
“My sense of humor doesn't translate well into print, some of the things I say can be offensive or found offensive even though I don't mean them that way. So I have been told to try and censor myself here and there. I'm trying, but I'm not really succeeding at it.”
“My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.”
“My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities! I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art and music/challenging the reasoning of others. I'm not satisfied with the state of humanity. If I must live on the same planet as Mr and Mrs out of touch, I will do whatever I can to jolt their zombie-ass skulls from the upside-down veal market they hang from.”
“My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.”
“My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.”
“My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.”
“My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.”
“My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.”
Source: Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
“My sense of kinship with this world is not only with its obviously sympathetic and and beautiful aspects, but also with the horrendous and strange. For I have found that the monstrous and inhuman aspects of fish and insects and reptiles are not so much in them as in me. They are external embodiments of my natural creeps and shudders at the thought of pain and death.”
Source: Nature, Man and Woman
“My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).”
“My sense of loss and deprivation is debilitating. Could it be that only by understanding our unique self and the spirit that motivates us that we can gain personal insight, understand one another, and subsequently discover our place in the universe?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.”
Source: Misadventurous
“My sense of narrative structure was shaped by ROM (Spaceknight) comics. I'd find random issues at the flea market and read them out of order with no context. The entire series was based on a toy I never owned. None of this made any difference.”
Source: Some Books Are Not For Sale
“My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.”
“My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.”
Source: Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen
“My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.”
“My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon.”
“My sense of self hinges upon the belief that what I do matters. That belief has compelled me to venture far from home life, and to immerse myself in the lives of strangers in the hope that my work will have an impact and connect people in some intangible way, that I can contribute some greater good.”
Source: Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War
“My sense of smell seemed preternaturally enhanced, so that I could almost taste every dish- the fish grilled in the ashes of the brazier, the roasted goat's cheese, the dark pancakes and the light, the hot chocolate cake, the confit de canard and the spiced merguez...”
Source: Chocolat
“My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.”
“My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I've learned about clothes is to ask a girl.”
“My sense of teasing is completely lost on you.", Patrick said, hoisting himself back up. "It's a shame too. Most people tell me my sense of humor is my best quality, only outdone by my otherworldly good looks.”
Source: Fallen Eden
“My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.”
Source: Home: a memoir of my early years
“My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.”
Source: The Future of Religion
“My sense of the past is vivid and slow. I hear every sign and see every shadow.”
Source: Airships
“My sense of the poet is classical - the poet is one who makes poems. In each book, I develop and repeat certain general themes - time, place, memory, God, history, class, race, beauty, love, poetry, identity. The core identity is the poet making the poems.”
“My sense of time seems to be melting, like a kid's snowman in a January thaw.”
Source: The Green Mile