M Quotes
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“Many aspects of the human condition are beautiful and many others are vile. Betrayal and personal agony represent a maddening part of being human. A person can maintain personal dignity by exercising restraint, remaining true to their conscience, and preserving under difficult conditions.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.”
“Many aspire to freedom and speak of it in resplendent terms. Yet, few achieve it. For freedom will demand sacrifices that the men who speak of it find themselves too frightened to make. Therefore, we must refuse to be a nation of fearful men, and in doing so we must leave those men to the fate of other causes other than our own.”
“Many Asset Managers today have a sort of pristine mathematical prowess paired with access to the most astute technology. But they lack a fundamental understanding of business. How do you invest in something that you don’t understand, except in theory?”
“Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.”
“Many at the State Department think its their job, not the Army's, to develop cultural and regional expertise and relationships. In such quarters, the RAF concept looks less like an innovative approach to global risk management than yet another military effort to replace diplomats with soldiers.”
Source: How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
“Many atheistic books and blogs seethe with anger. Remarkably, the authors do not limit their anger to Christians. They seem most livid with God. I don't believe in leprechauns, but I haven't dedicated my life to battling them. I suppose if I believed that people's faith in leprechauns poisoned civilization, I might get angry with members of leprechaun churches. But there's one thing I'm quite sure I wouldn't do: I would not get angry with leprechauns. Why not? Because I can't get angry with someone I know doesn't exist.”
Source: If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil
“Many attempt to harvest what was never planted.”
“Many attempt without success to make up for their lack of talent with defects of character.”
“Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.”
Source: Epochs of American History
“Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.”
Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
“Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all.”
“Many Australians experienced a sense of unease, a sense of being watched by unseen eyes.”
Source: The Full Circle for Mick
“Many authors swear cats are lucky. Afflatus for the writing process. I, however, see right through their evil asses.”
“Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks and the cursing are palpable, and this appeals to those who rank "sincerity" very high. Nabokov is more like a master swordsmith making a fine blade; nothing is amiss, nothing is too much, there is no fuss, and the finished product must be handled with great care, or it will cut you badly.”
“Many autistic people have this ability to learn weird foreign languages, and I think I've heard of autistic Americans who have been obsessed [with] Icelandic and learned it and speak it fluently, and I've seen it done in interviews on television.”
“Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time.”
“Many bad days were preceded by a bad night’s sleep.”
“Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It is one of the chief merits of golf that non-success at the game induces a certain amount of decent humilty, which keeps a man from pluming himself too much on any petty triumphs he may achieve in other walks of life.”
Source: The Golf Omnibus
“Many bad health habits are taught and ingrained generationally.”
“Many bad men are rich, many good men are poor; but we shall not exchange wealth for honour, for money flits from man to man but honour abides forever.”
“Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.”
“Many bad things were done under the Evil Empire" she said. "The best we can do now is undo them. Will you assist in this endeavor?"
"In every way that I can" said Nutt.
"I would like you to teach them civilized behavior," said Ladyship coldly.
He appeared to consider this. "Yes, of course, I think, that would be quite possible," he said. "And who would you send to teach the humans?"
There was a brief outburst of laughter from Vetinari, who immediately cupped his hand over his mouth. "Oh I do beg your pardon," he said.”
Source: Unseen Academicals
“Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.”
“Many banal ideas are commonly held about the disadvantages of poetry in translation—this despite the modern additions to our language of verse translations by Lattimore, Fitts, Fitzgerald, Wilbur, Lowell, or Auden. Poems may be poorly translated, as they may have been poorly written originally, but they are not necessarily poorer or better than the original—though the translator must secretly and vainly aim for the later. The quality of the poem in translation will depend on the translator's skill in writing poetry in his own language in the act of translating. If he is T. S. Eliot translating Saint-Jean Perse or Mallarmé translating Poe or the scholars of the King James Version translating the psalms, the result may indeed be superior—or at the very least equal. Only one thing is certain: the poem in translation will be different. The translator's task, then, is to produce a faithful forgery. The quality and resemblance of the new product to the old lies somewhere between such fidelity and fraud.”
Source: Ancient Greek Lyrics
“Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.”
Source: Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside
“Many battles can be easily won by following the Word of God. His Word presents irrefutable principles for victory.”
Source: The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes
“Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.”
“Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.”
“Many beautiful dreams die prematurely because the dreamers don’t have enough fuel to drive through the rocky roads and the patience to wait.”
“Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Many beginner entrepreneurs become overly and unrealistic ambitious and want to operate beyond borders before taking time to learn the challenges and what it takes to expand overseas”
Source: Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process
“Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don't find the consolation they want in spiritual things. Many never have enough of hearing counsels, or learning spiritual maxims, or keeping them and reading books about them. They spend more time in these than in striving after mortification and the perfection of the interior poverty to which they are obliged.”
Source: Dark night of the soul
“Many behold the ocean but only a few know the language of waves, their story of surge and stillness, while they rise and roll, form, and foam--opening to the world the story of ages. Only a few can sense God speaking through the waves, only a few can see the disguised carriers of divine message on earth.”
“Many behold the ocean but only a few know the language of waves, their story of surge and stillness, while they rise and roll-- form, and foam, opening to the world the story of ages. Only a few can sense God speaking through the waves...only a few can see the disguised carriers of divine messages on earth.”
“Many behold the ocean, but only a few know the language of waves, their story of surge and stillness, while they rise and roll, form, and foam--opening to the world the story of ages. Only a few can sense God speaking through the waves, only a few can see the disguised carriers of God's love-letters to the earth.”
“Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.”
Source: Michelangelo: Sculptor and Painter
“Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust.”
“Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree.”
“Many believe that Hillary Clinton was channeling President Obama during her recent speech in New York City. She focused on equality, justice, and how hard it was for her growing up as a young black man in Hawaii.”
“Many believe that the Vatican withheld important parts of the Third Secret, perhaps because its contents were too dangerous to reveal...”
Source: The Secret of Fatima
“Many believers are missing freedom and abundant life because they’re standing beside God’s will but not in God’s will.”
Source: Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression
“Many believers’ entire lives are reduced to nothing more than a sin management program, running the endless treadmill of trying to please God by doing more for Him or trying to sin less.”
“Many believers use truth as a license to righteously diminish others’ reputations.”
Source: Disciplines of a Godly Man
“Many biblical passages teach that we're not saved by our own efforts but by the grace of God alone. But the same passages also tell us good works are an essential evidence of the salvation experience. We're not saved by good works, but for good works. It begins with God's grace, and it's sustained by his grace as you shape your character by what you do as you cross the bridge.”
“Many big corporations have offloaded their assets for a fraction of what they are worth as a way to minimize loss”
“Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.”
Source: The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe
“Many biological researchers know that living on the Moon or Mars will make everyone involved sick to the point of killing them prematurely with Space diseases.”
“Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.”
“Many black intellectuals spoke about the experience of racism mainly, and sometimes exclusively, from a black male perspective, highlighting the various ways their humanity had been degraded and denied. While this discussion was something I cared about deeply, it was rarely balanced with one about all the unique ways in which black women have suffered. Even the scholars who spoke about race without focusing so much on the particular experience of black men still failed to fully capture and dissect the compounded challenges black women faced as they dealt with racism and sexism. The result of discussions of race being unfairly tilted toward the male point of view is that the experiences of black women have taken a backseat to those of black men, although they've suffered in ways that black men haven't. Racism and sexism were stacked against them. And too often they've borne the brunt of the very masculinity that has been historically debased in black men when black men asserted their power over the only people they could - black women...The hard truth is that black men have contributed to these struggles both subtly and overtly...we contribute to the degradation of black women by glorifying the kind of common rap that reduces them to bitches, hoes, and body parts.”
Source: Uncensored