M Quotes
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“Many think they play the last act. With life in turmoil, they seem to live the setup of a shattering countdown. To an insistent appeal for crucial answers, they only receive evasive responses or killing silence. But since the banks of their patience are bursting, an intractable cataclysm disturbs their interior world. Yet, this disruption might allow them to restore their emotional power by cleansing the oppressive environment and purifying the air that they breathe. ("Corporeal prison".)”
“Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. ... he hath made all men free and equal. Then why should one worm say to another, 'Keep you down there, while I sit up yonder; for I am better than thou?”
“Many thought of the election of Barack Obama, not as the end of racism, but certainly as a turning point. And it was. But for many, President Obama's election was a turning point in a different direction. It spurred a backlash among white supremacists invested in maintaining the status quo.
It can be no coincidence that the carnage of the Voting Rights Act so central to the Shelby decision occurred during the presidency of our first-ever Black president. It is no coincidence that in the decade since Obama's election, voter suppression has gained more momentum, velocity, and animosity than it had in the previous three elections combined. Since Shelby County v. Holder, voter suppression has taken on more pervasive and pernicious forms than ever before.”
Source: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
“Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.”
Source: Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth
“Many thoughts you think are yours are actually our thoughts, belonging to and originating with a group of people larger than you.”
Source: Reading the Soul
“Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.”
“Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.”
Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted
“Many thrifts layered a billion dollars of brand-new loans on top of their existing, disastrous hundred million dollars of old loss-making loans, in a hope that the new would offset the old. Each new purchase of mortgage bonds (which was identical to making a loan) was like the last act of a desperate man. The strategy was wildly irresponsible, for the fundamental problem (borrowing short term and lending long term) hadn’t been remedied. The hypergrowth only meant that the next thrift crisis would be larger. But the thrift managers were not thinking that far in advance. They were simply trying to keep the door to the shop open. That explains why thrifts continued to buy mortgage bonds even as they sold their loans.”
Source: Liar's Poker
“Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition
“Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.”
“Many times - especially when I'm playing an historical character - I want to be really on target with how I create that character and really nuanced with who that human being might be. But I don't want to lose the likeness of me or the depth of my own personality. So meditation and my spirituality has helped me to realize that, yes, I want to get out of the way but I also want the ability to hold on to what the audience likes of what they see of me.”
“Many times a company’s superpower is not the branding image, advertising budget or selling skills, but it is empathy.”
Source: The Art of Running a Successful Wedding Services Business: The Missing Puzzle Piece You’re Looking For
“Many times, a moment can turn your soul waves to welcoming, sunny shores.
And in that moment, all you have to do is to let yourself in the arms of the Destiny, carried away of the endless time feeling, without more other searches...”
Source: Contopire
“Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.”
Source: The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar
“Many times creatively responding to change immediately puts us on the edge of culture and friendships. People who ride the edge are marginalized until others accept the new reality and the new adaptation. Those with diverse points of view who are willing to make changes in their living systems and risk loss of status are crucial pioneers. How else can solution be adapted unless early adopters take the opportunity?”
Source: Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems
“Many times dealings in crime and corruption are done with more honesty and trust." -From' Foiled.”
“Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.”
“Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.”
“Many times happiness is just around the corner, on that corner that we never dare to turn.”
Source: The Easiest Way Special Edition: Solve Your Problems and Take the Road to Love, Happiness, Wealth and the Life of your Dreams-Includes The Easiest Way ... Ho'oponopono
“Many times he had tried unsuccessfully to let go his hold on her. They had many fine times together, fine talks between the loves of the white nights, but always when he turned away from her into himself he left her holding Nothing in her hands and staring at it, calling it many names, but knowing it was only the hope that he would come back soon.”
“Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.”
“Many times I am forced in my prayers, first to beg of God that he would take mine heart, and set it on himself in Christ, and when it is there, that he would keep it there.”
Source: Prayer
“Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'”
“Many times I feel different like a different person.”
“Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights”
“Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.”
“Many times I have thanked God for a bite of raw dog.”
“Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'”
“Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.”
“Many times, I stepped in the mud.
Every time, you turned it to gold.
If not for your love, I deserve nothing—
but disappearance of my whole being.”
“Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.”
Source: Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk
“Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.”
Source: Born Black
“Many times I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless procession of days, months, years... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity.”
“Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.”
“Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.”
“Many times in his first nine years, Prince Cardan slept in the hay of the stables when his mother didn't want him in their suite of rooms. It was warm there, and he could pretend he was hiding, could pretend that someone was looking for him. Could pretend that when he was not found, it was only because the spot he'd chosen was so extremely clever.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.”
Source: Sugar Daddy: A Novel
“Many times in life it’s not about turning on the light. Rather, it’s about refusing to pull the shades.”
“Many times in life, we are held back from achieving our goals because we do not commit ourselves wholeheartedly. With an escape route in mind, we hold ourselves back from giving our all.”
Source: All You Need Is a Ball: What Soccer Teaches Us about Success in Life and Business
“Many times, in life, you have opportunities and options, but not control. And when you are lucky the illusion of control is given to you; this is when you make symphonies.”
“Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting.”
“Many times in my life I've been upset about something and said to myself, "Will this matter in two years?" Not even in two months.”
“Many times in my life when things were not going as I had planned, I would try to take control and fix it. The harder I tried to fix things the harder the situation or the stress from the situation became. As I learned to trust that God had the best solution, my life became much more peaceful and I was able to get through problems much quicker.”
“Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God’s eyes.”
Source: Approval Addiction
“Many times in the Old Testament, God refers to human beings as His beloved. But when God called Jesus His beloved, Jesus did something truly remarkable: He believed Him. And He lived every moment of His life fully convinced of His identity.”
Source: Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?
“Many times, it’s a misunderstanding of what is promised or expected that causes acts of incivility.”
Source: The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital
“Many times man lives and dies
Betweeen his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“Many times, our answers are found in things or places that we want to destroy.”
Source: The Kingdom of God
“Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.”