M Quotes
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“Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow.”
“Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.”
“Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.”
Source: The Scriptlings
“Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov.”
“Many things have broken him. He holds himself together with spit and endless smiling, but all can see the cracks. You, though; you are dented, bruised, but intact.”
“Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.”
“Many things have fallen only to rise higher.”
“Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.”
Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes
“Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.”
Source: Tieta: The Goat Girl, Or the Return of the Prodigal Daughter, a Melodramatic Serial Novel in Five Sensational Episodes, with a Touching Epilogue : Thrills and Suspense!
“Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.”
“Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.”
“Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.”
“Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical faculty—or indeed any faculty whatever, unless it is one of induced enthusiasm for a plausible consensus President. (We shall see whether it counts as progress for the same parrots to learn a new word.) And my own cohort, the left, shared in the general dispiriting move towards apolitical, atonal postmodernism. Regarding something magnificent, like the long-overdue and still endangered South African revolution (a jagged fit in the supposedly smooth pattern of axiomatic progress), one could see that Ariadne’s thread had a robust reddish tinge, and that potential citizens had not all deconstructed themselves into Xhosa, Zulu, Cape Coloured or ‘Eurocentric’; had in other words resisted the sectarian lesson that the masters of apartheid tried to teach them. Elsewhere, though, it seemed all at once as if competitive solipsism was the signifier of the ‘radical’; a stress on the salience not even of the individual, but of the trait, and from that atomization into the lump of the category. Surely one thing to be learned from the lapsed totalitarian system was the unwholesome relationship between the cult of the masses and the adoration of the supreme personality. Yet introspective voyaging seemed to coexist with dull group-think wherever one peered about among the formerly ‘committed’.
Traditionally then, or tediously as some will think, I saw no reason to discard the Orwellian standard in considering modern literature. While a sort of etiolation, tricked out as playfulness, had its way among the non-judgemental, much good work was still done by those who weighed words as if they meant what they said. Some authors, indeed, stood by their works as if they had composed them in solitude and out of conviction. Of these, an encouraging number spoke for the ironic against the literal mind; for the generously interpreted interest of all against the renewal of what Orwell termed the ‘smelly little orthodoxies’—tribe and Faith, monotheist and polytheist, being most conspicuous among these new/old disfigurements. In the course of making a film about the decaffeinated hedonism of modern Los Angeles, I visited the house where Thomas Mann, in another time of torment, wrote Dr Faustus. My German friends were filling the streets of Munich and Berlin to combat the recrudescence of the same old shit as I read:
This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do. not consider religion the most adequate means of keeping it under lock and key. For that, literature alone avails, humanistic science, the ideal of the free and beautiful human being. [italics mine]
The path to this concept of enlightenment is not to be found in the pursuit of self-pity, or of self-love. Of course to be merely a political animal is to miss Mann’s point; while, as ever, to be an apolitical animal is to leave fellow-citizens at the mercy of Ideolo’. For the sake of argument, then, one must never let a euphemism or a false consolation pass uncontested. The truth seldom lies, but when it does lie it lies somewhere in between.”
Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
“Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.”
“Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matter whether you are rich or poor - it certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking, but they don't matter absolutely.There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self.”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“Many things inspire me, but at this moment in my life, my daughter is my greatest inspiration. Working hard has taken on a whole new meaning since I had her. I want to make a great life for myself so she can have a great life.”
“Many things inspire me. First and foremost, my family, my husband, and our son. I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.”
“Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.”
“Many things make the ideal magazine story . But one thing is that it calls attention to the reader to something that they never would have imagined being interested in. And you leave them with a sense of wonder. I have to think more about this.”
“Many things may face extinction with the passage of time. But, some things will never go extinct. For instance, the printed books and the classrooms!”
“Many things may not have gone as planned, but you are not dead yet. You can still make another plan. Learn to appreciate that.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“Many things might have caused pain this year. The good thing is that we would not have felt them if we weren't alive. Thankful that I'm alive!”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life”
“Many things shaped my identity as a young boy: a strong selfworth (something that was instilled in all three Barrowman siblings by our parents), my immersion in theatre and music, and my DNA. I was born gay. It's not a choice I – or anyone else who is gay – made. If it were, why on earth would anyone choose to be part of a minority, part of a group that in so many cultures and countries, even in the twenty-first century, is regularly blasphemed, hounded and worse?”
Source: Anything Goes: The Autobiography
“Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.”
Source: All Marketers are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All
“Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You’d be surprised.”
Source: A Monster Calls
“Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful.”
“Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the
silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of
silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled
with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence.
The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great
and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize.
Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something
created for its own sake.”
“Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy.”
“Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.”
Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany
“Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done.”
Source: The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ
“Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many other things we had - were so strange unto them, and so farre exceeded their capacities to comprehend the reason and meanes how they should be made and done, that they thought they were rather the workes of gods then men.”
“Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.”
Source: America Day by Day
“Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.”
Source: The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life
“Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.”
Source: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
“Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of military exigency, inter arma silent leges. Whatever the general merits of the view that war silences law or modulates its voice, that view has no place in the interpretation and application of a Constitution designed precisely to confront war and, in a manner that accords with democratic principles, to accommodate it.”
Source: Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents
“Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read our Bibles and develop intimacy with the unseen God but ignore the others-oriented life of justice and love and peace that Jesus embodied.”
“Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.”
“Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.”
“Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.”
“Many think that a funeral, is a fortuitous event, without any rules. That's not true. A funeral is a high-society event par excellence. You must never forget that at a funeral you are appearing on stage. You must patiently wait for the relatives to disperse. Once you are sure that all the guests are seated...
only at that point, may you offer your condolences to the family. In this way, everyone will see you. You take the mourner's hands, and rest yours on their arms. You whisper something to them, a comforting phrase, said with authority. For example: "ln the days to come,
when you feel the void, I want you to know that you can always count on me." The public will ask...
"What's Jep Gambardella saying?" You're allowed to retire to a corner by yourself, as if contemplating your sorrow. However, another matter must be approached with shrewdness. The chosen place needs
to be isolated but clearly visible to the public. Besides, a performance is good when it is devoid of any superfluity. So, the fundamental rule: one must never cry at a funeral. You must never steal the show from the family's sorrow. That is forbidden. Because it is immoral.”
“Many think that assigning blame settles matters.”
“Many think that the mark of a great champion is the nature and margin of their victories and the peaks they scale and reach. That’s only part of it. The mark of the greatest of champions is how they react and respond to defeat. That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds – as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history.”
“Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.”
“Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.”