M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Mann und Frau wollen sich trennen. Keine seltene Geschichte. Ob es irgendwo eine ewige Statistik gibt, wie oft solche Trennungsversuche klappen und wie oft sie scheitern? Und woran es jeweils liegt? Gibt es irgendwo ein Register dieser Schmerzen? Führt da jemand Buch, damit nicht so ganz umsonst gelitten wird?”
Source: Die verschwundene Chefredakteurin
“Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of passages in which the resonance of the words he chose struck him as exactly right (even though he didn't probe to discover exactly what tone or narrative device gave them that effect).”
“Mann was less interested, I think, in constructing any kind of "portrait of an age" than he was in delineating an individual consciousness in which profound struggles about identity and direction arise - struggles that Mann himself had not only reflected on but felt keenly. Visconti takes up this central focus of the novella, but he couples it with a more social perspective.”
“Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How to live?" - and whose writings offered novel perspectives for considering that question (much more perspective-offering than rigorous argument!)”
“Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in his quasi-Socratic, anti-Socratic, ruminations.”
“Mann's sexuality and his attitudes towards it are extremely complex - and the complexities are inherited in the figure of Aschenbach. Mann had lived through a series of (almost certainly unconsummated) relationships with young men.”
“Manna only falls from heaven when you have someone at the top showering it down on you.”
Source: Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions
“Manna today or I starve.”
Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.”
Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
“Mannen såg lugnt på honom, nästan medlidande, och svarade: "Vet du vad det värsta med att vara förälder är? Att man alltid blir bedömd för sina sämsta ögonblick. Man kan göra en miljon saker rätt men en enda sak fel och sedan är man för alltid den där föräldern som kollade i mobilen medan barnet fick en gunga i huvudet i parken. Vi tar inte ögonen ifrån dem på flera dygn i taget men så läser vi ett sms och då är alla våra bästa stunder värdelösa. Ingen människa går till psykologen för att prata om alla gånger de inte fick en gunga i huvudet som barn. Föräldrar definieras av sina misslyckanden." (ss. 29-30)”
Source: Folk med ångest
“Mannequin heads with crushed orbital bones and humorous growths. Stacks of newborn babies. Eyeballs trailing rubbery pink muscles, like a school of prehistoric jellyfish. Viv always laughed when she thought of how Tim described Mandy: "Dr. Frankenstein with a hoarding issue.”
Source: Tell Me When You Feel Something
“Mannequins are both a reflection of our social norms and and a beacon for our ideals.”
Source: Mannequins: Stories Of The First Supermodel
“Mannequins are the artificial intelligence of the modelling industry.”
“Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.”
Source: The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927
“Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.”
Source: The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper
“Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.”
Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
“Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.”
“Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.”
“Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recognizes is as a revealing habit of speech, and the point at which its iteration begin to weary him.”
Source: Jane Austen And Her Art
“Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.”
Source: My theatre life
“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.”
“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”
“Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.”
“Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.”
“Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.”
“Manners are important. More so, when the conversation is conducted over written format where the other person can't hear your voice.”
“Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.”
“Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.”
“Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.”
“Manners are love in a cool climate.”
“Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.”
Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
“Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.... Etiquette must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners. Certainly what one is, is of far greater importance than what one appears to be.”
Source: Emily Post's Etiquette
“Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis.... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.”
“Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.”
“Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.”
“Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.”
“Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.”
Source: The Sunday Philosophy Club
“Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.”
Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life
“Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects. Manners- simple things like saying 'please' and 'thank you' and knowing a person’s name or asking after her family enable two people to work together whether they like each other or not. Bright people, especially bright young people, often do not understand this. If analysis shows that someone’s brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy – that is, a lack of manners.”
“Manners are the ornament of action.”
Source: Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct
“Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.”
Source: Thoughts
“Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.”
“Manners before morals!”
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan
“Manners can make a very uncomfortable situation more tolerable.”
Source: Evolving to Grace
“Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.”
“Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.”
Source: Paris in April