M Quotes
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“Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.”
“Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.”
“Many a time he had caught himself saying: "I can't live without God, but I can live without religion." He may have abandoned the practice of religion which was part of his boyhood, and which taught him how to interpret the world, and his surroundings, and his feelings, but he did so because he would not reconcile his life and his mysticism. He did so because his quest for God was sexual as well as emotional. At the same time he saw religion being practised in a weak and mawkish way, in a way that was emasculated and enfeebled, lacking the fertile passion and the violent receptivity of femininity or the exuberance of virility. A religion without sex for people who are afraid of the passions and the power of love. An accommodating, bourgeois religion, that is more often than not hypocritical. At the same time, on the other hand, even in his silent prayers, he was aware of putting his entire sexuality on the line. This is why he read Hosea. Because in those pages there was not an exclusively mental or spiritual vision of the relationship between God and His people. Rather, there was a representation of bodies, a representation of prostitution and wantonness, of the frenzy of separation, of wrath and of paternal protection. As has always been the case since time immemorial between people who love one another.”
Source: Camere separate
“Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.”
“Many a time I have
made a comparison between nobility of sacrifice and happiness of
rebellion to find out which one is nobler and more beautiful; but until
now I have distilled only one truth out of the whole matter, and this
truth is sincerity, which makes all our deeds beautiful and
honourable.”
“Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.”
Source: The good society
“Many a time I was desperately tired; but all the same it was a tremendous pleasure to sit there working and earning money. It was like being a man.”
“Many a time the Photographer is the only instrument which can capture the creative work of art of the nature, for eternity, at the right moment......
Biju Karakkonam.”
“Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.”
Source: The Odes of Pindar
“Many a time the thought returns to me:
What sad conditions Love on me bestows!
And moved by Pity I say frequently:
'Can there be anyone who my state knows?'
For Love takes hold of me so suddenly
My vital spirits I am near to lose.
One only of them all survives in me,
Staying to speak of you, as Love allows.
To aid me then my forces I renew
And pallid, all my courage drained long since,
I come to you to remedy my plight;
But if I raise my eyes to look at you
So vast a tremor in my heart begins
My beating pulses put my soul to flight.”
Source: La Vita Nuova
“Many a time, we let go of some really good ideas just because we feel they are too controversial.”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“Many a time, we live life without having access to the thoughts of how the hours of yesterday were spent. This comes to play because of lack of self-analysis and does not help in any way to create the excellence we claim to pursue.”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Many a time we seek drama in our surroundings to spark up our daily life. However, reality is not a fairy story, and is often anti-climatic. But there’s the comedy!”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“Many a times, we undermine ourselves because we do not take the initiative in forwarding our own interests.”
Source: small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era
“Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.”
Source: Travels with Charley
“Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”
“Many a true word is spoken in jest”
Source: The Reeve's Prologue and Tale
“Many a truth is the result of an error.”
“Many a truth is told in jest.”
“Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.”
“Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.”
“Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.”
“Many a woman secretly has a crush on a man who secretly has a crush on her man.”
“Many a woman shudders... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians.”
“Many a woman was killed by her man whom she stole from his ex.”
“Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.”
Source: Modern Society
“Many a woman would get a divorce if she could do it without making her husband happy.”
“Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns.”
“Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.”
Source: The school for scandal: a comedy in five acts
“Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.”
“Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have.”
Source: I Thirst
“Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal. There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.”
“Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big difference between being a writer and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. You've got to want to write, I say to them, not want to be a writer. The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did.”
“Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.”
“Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.”
“Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the tasks of early adulthood-establishing independence and intimacy-burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.”
“Many accents and languages is part of myself has definitely played an important role in who I am today as an actor. I feel that speaking five languages has given me the opportunity to work in many different countries across our globe and it makes me understand better the value of each project when it is written in its original language.”
“Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.”
“Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.”
“Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed
“Many activists don't want to hear about some grand narrative, one that could unify all of our struggles. So the major issue that needs to be addressed is how to get people to see that there is indeed a grand narrative which just happens to be true.”
“Many activists just see what's wrong: they want to stand up to injustice and educate people about it. But I think it's equally important for activists to hold a more positive vision of what's right with their country: what's going well, and what they'd like to grow or see more of. I also like to encourage activists to take some time each day to sit silently or take a walk in nature as a way to be in touch with their inner wisdom and peace - and to remember why they are on this path in the first place.”
“Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.”
“Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.”
“Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why”
“Many actors will try something different once, but if it isn't a box office success they'll never do it again. In my opinion, there's no point in going on with this job if you do the same thing over and over again.”
“Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.”