M Quotes
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“My thoughts hold mortal strife, I do detest my life, And with lamenting cries, Peace to my soul to bring, Oft calls that prince which here doth monarchize; But he, grim-grinning king, Who caitiffs scorns and doth the blest surprise, Late having deck'd with beauty's rose his tomb, Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come.”
Source: The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden: With Life, by Peter Cunningham
“My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.
My mind, I hope, will soon be found.”
Source: Destroy Me
“My thoughts lead me in the direction of healing, prosperity, connection, and grace-filled experiences.”
“My thoughts often are a war of fear and courage.”
Source: An Angel's Calling
“My thoughts on body image are simple: if you are being kind to yourself mentally and physically you never have anything to be ashamed for, ever.”
“My thoughts on certain things are changing in ways I never thought they would. It's crazy what age, experience, and observation does to you.”
“My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.”
“My thoughts on the descent of our moral prejudices – for that is what this polemic is about – were first set out in a sketchy and provisional way in the collection of aphorisms entitled Human, All Too Human. A Book for Free Spirits, which I began to write in Sorrento during a winter that enabled me to pause, like a wanderer pauses, to take in the vast and dangerous land through which my mind had hitherto travelled. This was in the winter of 1876–7; the thoughts themselves go back further. They were mainly the same thoughts which I shall be taking up again in the present essays – let us hope that the long interval has done them good, that they have become riper, brighter, stronger and more perfect! The fact that I still stick to them today, and that they themselves in the meantime have stuck together increasingly firmly, even growing into one another and growing into one, makes me all the more blithely confident that from the first, they did not arise in me individually, randomly or sporadically but as stemming from a single root, from a fundamental will to knowledge deep inside me which took control, speaking more and more clearly and making ever clearer demands. And this is the only thing proper for a philosopher. We have no right to stand out individually: we must not either make mistakes or hit on the truth individually. Instead, our thoughts, values, every ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘if ’ and ‘but’ grow from us with the same inevitability as fruits borne on the tree – all related and referring to one another and a testimonial to one will, one health, one earth, one sun. – Do you like the taste of our fruit? – But of what concern is that to the trees? And of what concern is it to us philosophers? . . .”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals
“My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.”
Source: Don Quixote
“My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens.”
Source: Dry
“My thoughts shape your world and turn it into what you see.”
“My thoughts swerve back to swans' eggs. Such splendid things---their whites are purer, more translucent than those of any other egg. Perhaps their boiled yolks might be mixed with firm fresh butter, essence of anchovies, minced herbs, even a chopped shallot. And then returned to their hardboiled whites in softly beaten mounds. A swan's egg en salade, I think, smiling.”
Source: Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
“My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and sting my skin, and make me feel alive again.”
Source: Flowers in the Attic
“My thoughts war. Part of me needs to protect her; part of me wants something else. Something vile. Wrong.”
Source: Libera Me
“My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.”
Source: Excellent Women
“My thoughts were interrupted when I heard someone got slapped. By the sound alone, one could tell that it was a hard one. I figured whoever got slapped had to be close by, so I spun around in search of this person who had just gotten the daylights slapped out of them, only to discover that the person was me.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“My thoughts were mixed-up as the apple, hard-boiled egg, goat cheese, and steelhead trout salad I'd gotten once at Sweetgreen when my brain short-circuited in front of the make-your-own-options. (The salad barista---is that what they're called?---had asked me if I was totally sure twice.)”
Source: Best Served Hot
“My thoughts were my own until I discovered that the universe had access to them.”
“My thoughts were to become a dentist when I first went to Albany State. I didn't know where I would end up, but I knew I'd be happy, and I knew I would have a nice life. That was always my goal, to have a nice, happy life. That's, to me, being rich.”
“My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.”
Source: Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries
“My thoughts will echo your name until I see you again.”
“My Thoughts, Words & Actions Will Lead Me to My Goal.”
Source: Affirmations: a daily handbook
“My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?”
“My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)
“My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.”
“My Thracian foal, why do you glare with disdain
and then shun me absolutely as if I knew
nothing of this art?
I tell you I could bridle you with tight straps,
seize the reins and gallop you around the posts
of the pleasant course.
But you prefer to graze on the calm meadow,
or frisk and gambol gayly—having no manly
rider to break you in.”
“My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.”
“My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.”
“My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.”
“My three keys to success: One, work hard. Two, be your own person. And three, have a passion for what you're doing.”
“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full complement of species, returning throughout the world.”
“My three months of official leave was over, and it was time to go back to being a boring art professor. It was the kind of life I needed to live to forget about who I used to be.”
Source: Professor's Secret Baby
“My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist.”
“My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.”
“My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.”
“My throat closed up, and I read and read and read, but no words came. The air became thick and stank of metal- not magic but burning, unforgiving steel creeping toward me, inch by inch.
'Answer it!' Lucien shouted, his voice hitched. My eyes stung. The world was just a blur of letters, mocking me with their turns and shapes.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“My throat closes up then, and we’re both silent, with only the rain on the roof to break up the quiet. I study the girl I knew, another casualty of this fight, wondering how the wounds of it will mark her.
“Clear skies, Sof.” It’s all I have left to say.
“Clear skies,” she whispers. “I hope you find what you’re looking for.”
Source: This Shattered World
“My throat is burning.
Tears are spilling from my eyes.
I know I need to go but ...
I am drawn to ...
"Below the haze,
I can just make out
the ripples of my village lake.
It is a place I hold dear to my heart.
I feel so drawn to it.
A place of love for me and ....
"Sherwin.”
Source: Fleur of Yesterday
“My throat starts to dry up right after and I feel my heart racing and that stupid lump forming in my throat again, the one I always have to swallow. And besides that, there's so much guilt; it's like a tsunami that washes over the shore and when it recedes, you're left with nothing at all. It's not fair, I want to shout. It's not fair that I have to feel so horrible and I can't even feel horrible because my brain tells me it's wrong and I'm selfish and I feel disgusting.”
Source: How to Be the Best Third Wheel
“My throat tightened as I choked back a sob. I didn’t want to let this part of me in. The part of me that realized I was a monster and that maybe I was too far gone to be saved.”
Source: Tompkin's School: For The Resurrected
“My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.”
“My thumbprint is on every single thing that happens with Hellboy. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do professionally, letting someone else draw the main Hellboy comic. He's so much mine. But I still have no intention of ever handing over the writing of the main Hellboy comic to someone else. That character is my baby.”
“My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.'”
Source: Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue
“My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.”
“My tidy and well-appointed box might be ‘my’ world, but it will never be ‘the’ world.”
“My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.”
Source: Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition
“My time as a doorman was quite volatile and bloody, no door registration schemes or training courses could have prepared you for what it was like back then. You didn’t have vanloads of police patrolling up and down the town then, you were lucky if you even seen a couple of bobbies in a car, never mind on foot.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“My time as a middle manager was a decade spent in high altitude professional astronomy. I found myself in a ‘Piggy In The Middle’ situation. The management team wanted a well performing telescope that was free of issues and the people I was managing appeared lethargic! I later discovered through research that the high altitude exposures drain them of energy. The high altitude workers end up in a state of mal-acclimatization, where they are never acclimatized to the mountain and they are never acclimatized to sea level. After a decade working at high altitude, I was also lethargic! It was a relief to leave the field of professional astronomy. I spent the following decades characterizing the toxicity of professional astronomy and I discovered a new sickness called ‘Altitude Hypersensitivity’.”
“My time as showrunner on The Walking Dead has been an amazing experience, but after I finish season three, it’s time to move on. I have told the stories I wanted to tell and connected with our fans on a level that I never imagined. It doesn’t get much better than that. Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this journey.”
“My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One, actually. I might not have won races, just one race, but I had a lot of fun.”