M Quotes
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“My temperament is my strongest thing according for the people that know me best.”
“My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.”
“My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.”
“My template for everything is organisation. With the ball you have to know the movement patterns, the rotation, the fluidity and positioning of the team. When we have the football everybody's a player.”
“My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.”
“My temple followed the Zen tradition; therefore every one of us from the highest monk to the newest member equally followed the principle of "no work, no food.”
Source: My Master's Robe: Memories of a Novice Monk
“My temples are white, my head largely bald.
Graceful youth has departed from my face,
and my teeth are the loose teeth of an old man.
I have few years left of sweet life.
Therefore I tremble and fear the underworld,
for the lightless chasm of death is dreadful
and the descent appalling: once cast down
into Hell there is no return.”
“My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.”
Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
“My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“My temptation is to look back and reject or resent what came before, but that is like taking a cross-country trip and getting angry at Chicago for not being New York. It is a stop along the way, and you can't get to where you are heading without going through it.”
“My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.”
“My Ten Commandments:
1. God is a verb, not a noun.
2. Prayers are important only if they lead to corresponding actions.
3. Creation is an art. Science provides the tools for the artist. Anybody with the tools is not necessarily an artist.
4. Religion involves exclusivity and superiority. Divinity is inclusive and involves humility.
5. God by definition should be omnipotent. He should not require intermediation by priests and prophets.
6. All prophets have displayed exclusivity and superiority. (Refer to #4 above)
7. Rituals involve intermediation and often cruelty towards other fellows of creation.
8. Inclusivity and humility towards all creations of God is divine.
9. Rituals are antithesis of the divine. Rituals indicate a god and his intermediaries who are greedy, arrogant, revengeful and cruel.
10. God exists only for increasing happiness of all creatures.”
“My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.”
“My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.”
“My tendency is to be the guy in the back, even though I often end up being the guy in the front.”
“My tendency is to be very experimental.”
“My tendency is to want to say to the person, "Do you understand why I feel this way?" I usually do say that. And sometimes it doesn't go well. By this I mean we hit an impasse again. Not that I need to hear exactly what I want to hear, but I need to know I am heard. Those moments make for a better friendship. But I can't let it go. For good or bad.”
“My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.”
“My tendency to internalize emotion is probably why I'm an actor. I'm comfortable performing angrily but have such difficulty expressing anger in my life.”
“My tendency to make awkward situations even more ininappropriate and uncomfortable was such a charming characteristic.”
Source: Handcuffs, Kisses and Awkward Situations
“My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.”
“My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.”
“My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.”
“My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, “It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.”
“My term ends in June 2004 and I have no intention to change that.”
“My territory is planet earth - humanity, my civilization.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“My test for veracity has always been: How this will settle with a person who is dying? Boundlessness seemed to me to open the door to the true nature of mind that is pointed to in the Heart Sutra.”
“My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am I just fulfilling my own expectations - or even worse, somebody else's?”
“My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.”
“My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.”
“My testimony helps me to establish priorities in my life.”
“My text doesn’t say, “being justified by faith, we feel we are at peace with God.” It doesn’t say that. It says, “we have peace with God.” It’s not a feeling. It’s a fact. Peace with God is not an emotional state of religious euphoria. If it were, we would be in a very precarious position, since our emotions ebb and flow like the tides of the sea. But it isn’t a feeling. It is a relationship, which is a stable relationship because God has established it through Jesus Christ and our fluctuating feelings can not alter it. Peace with God is an objective fact based upon an objective event: the death of Jesus Christ, and it’s these objectivities, these rocks, if our feet stand firmly upon them, which will rescue us from the shifting sands of subjectivity.”
“My thanks, m'lady." He reached for the bowl and sniffed the pottage, followed by a cringe.
She bit her fingernail. "Oh dear, I'm afraid I'm not much of a cook, either."
"Yer scones are right delicious." He took a bite. "Mm. This is no' near as bad as the last batch.”
Source: Return of the Highland Laird
“My thatched hut;
the whole sky Is its roof
The mountains are its hedge,
And it has the sea for a garden.
I’m inside with nothing at all,
Not even a bag,
And yet there are visitors who say
It’s hidden behind a bamboo door”
“My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.”
“My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.”
“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.”
Source: The world of Evelyn Waugh
“My theme song is always: "Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them."”
“My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.”
“My theology has no relation to scripture, my theology is just human acting at full voltage.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today. That the moment is holy, sacred, and all there is - and that we are only as sick as our secrets. So TELL IT.”
“My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.”
“My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.”
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.”
“My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.”
“My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate the thing they find most frightening.”
“My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.”
“My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.”
Source: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
“My theory about Taylor Swift is that she's a virgin, that everyone breaks up with her because they date her for two weeks and she's like, 'I'm not gonna do it'.”