M Quotes
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“Many an expert says that there is a certain affinity between (Capablanca's style) and that of the world master, Lasker. There may be some truth in it. Lasker's style is clear water, but with a drop of poison which is clouding it. Capablanca's style is perhaps still clearer, but it lacks that drop of poison.”
“Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.”
“Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.”
Source: Mahatma Gandhi's Confessions
“Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical
“Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.”
“Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray, i.e., we are not looking for it. So, in the largest sense, we find only the world we look for.”
Source: The Journal, 1837-1861
“Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.”
“Many analysts compare Turkey with countries in the Middle East, but I think we need to compare it with Russia. Both countries come from a tradition of empire, and also from a tradition of the strong state.”
“Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.”
“Many ancient cultures and philosophies observed life and focused on balance, which stemmed from the desire to extend use to its maximum potential. Ai suggests a return to such balance design, seeking to extend the use of something to its full potential. This desire to extend usage is the foundation of what Ai calls #glassbeadplay.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“Many ancient peoples believed in a land of shade, where the dead dwell in a twilight underworld. In Hebrew, it is tsalmaveth, the death-shadow. In one of the more peculiar Biblical passages, King Saul, who is in desperate need of advice, orders the witch of Endor to summon the prophet Samuel from the shadows. Samuel appears, but he is vexed at being disturbed and angry at Saul's lack of faith. Things don't go at all well for the King, implying that summoning the dead is not the best way to reach a decision.”
Source: Castle Shade
“Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.”
Source: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
“Many animal rescue organizations hit with a hard-core, heartbreaking message. Their videos and stories can become difficult for average people to watch. By taking a more positive, heartwarming approach to animal rescue, I've been able to engage people and keep them engaged for years. Instead of selling the agony and misery - and sadly, there is no shortage of that - I start with the happy endings. I work backwards so the first message they get is joy and success due to their involvement. Opening the mind with humor and joy gets the rescue message in that much deeper.”
“Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.”
Source: De rerum natura
“Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans- or even other animals, including members of the same species- an individual's pain, suffering, and anxiety matter.”
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
“Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.”
“Many antitax advocates and political leaders who insist Americans' liberty requires freedom from taxes want to have the government limit core values such as whom people can marry, what schools can teach, and who makes decisions concerning control over people's bodies, to name just a few. Antitax proponents often endorse bizarre and unrealistic conceptions of freedom.”
Source: The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America
“Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.”
“Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.”
“Many are admired without gaining affection, but only a few are deeply loved. Therefore, don't let popularity overwhelm you.”
“Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.”
“Many are arrogant because of the knowledge they possess, but they have no knowledge of how arrogant they are.”
Source: How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
“Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.”
“Many are average with a life put on auto pilot. Be exceptional by manually channelling your life out of the standards set by the mediocre thinking of the average.”
“Many are born many are gone”
“Many are brave but do not redden their sword in the chest of another.”
“Many are called but few get up.”
Source: The Complete Cynic
“Many are called, few are chosen.”
Source: The Last Four Things
“Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the denying of God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarly concerning him.”
Source: A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum
“Many are charmed into paying cash for access, but may be unconscious of their petrifying downward spiral and the steady descent into the abyss of a lobby gate. ( “Bribe payers’ index” )”
“Many are concerned with going to heaven or hell, But fail to realize that you can be living in heaven or hell right here on Earth.”
Source: Heart Crush
“Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus.”
Source: The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil
“Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.”
Source: The philosophical dictionary, from the French
“Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.”
Source: The Trial and Triumph of Faith
“Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.”
“Many are ill-wishers in the name of well-wishers”
“Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.”
“Many are living within a prison created within the confines of their own mind.”
Source: Life Is a Dance
“Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.”
“Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.”
“Many are of the mindset that a door will open for them one day. That is great, but what if no door opens for you in quite a long time?
Do you continue to wait, or find an alternative?
My answer to you is learn to create your own door. By so doing, you will create a future for yourself, and thus you can have control over your life and be the driver of your destiny.”
“Many are poets, but without the name;
For what is Poesy but to create
From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim
At an external life beyond our fate,
And be the new Prometheus of new men,
Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,
Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain”
“Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain”
“Many are quick to dismiss those who pursue the arts, insisting a degree in one useless or a vow of poverty appropriate, yet wouldn’t want to live in a world without music, literature, television, or videogame.”
“Many are rather easily able to contemplate the heroism of sacrifice, yet it is the few who are brave enough to move that notion from thought to action. And it is to those of you who made that move that my heart salutes and my soul marvels.”
“Many are ready to spend millions to impress a woman when an honest I LOVE YOU can win her heart”
“Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .”
Source: An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
“Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Many are secure as human beings
and insecure in their spiritual selves
So if you are at times feeling insecure
about life,
know that it is better to be nervous
upon this plane of operation
than to be nervous on the inner plane
of perfection”
Source: Wisdom’s Fragrance