M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.”
“Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.”
“Many women have tried to compare to you, but they are only flawed imitations. You deserve the worlds admiration.”
Source: Love Quotes
“Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing.”
“Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!”
Source: Tenterhooks
“Many women I met during my time in the academy were very good to me. But in the wake of everything I lost, I wanted to reclaim parts of me with some semblance of wholeness before everything was burned in the fire. To do that, I needed to reconnect with people who knew me before I began chasing whatever success I thought I'd find being an acclaimed Womanist scholar. I need the people who knew me when my dreams were big, and my spirit and heart were unbroken.”
Source: Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough
“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal.”
“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”
Source: Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
“Many women latch onto language from popular psychology, such as "panic attack," when often they are instead experiencing sensory overwhelm.”
Source: Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
“Many women like Kristin don’t understand that men who distance are dealing with fears of their own.”
Source: Female Rage: Unlocking Its Secrets, Claiming Its Power
“Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)
“Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.”
“Many women often look for a man with solid financial stability and a paycheck that outshines their own. Why?”
Source: Mr. - Untold story of husbands
“Many women say that verbal violence causes more harm than physical violence because it damages self-esteem so deeply. Women have not wanted to hear battered women say that the verbal abuse was as hurtful as the physical abuse: to acknowledge that truth would be tantamount to acknowledging that virtually every woman is a battered woman. It is difficult to keep strong against accusations of being a bitch, stupid, inferior, etc., etc.”
Source: Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism
“Many women seem to have hang-ups about going out with me because they feel they have to be in the same shape that I am. If they're overweight, they're insecure, because they don't understand that I don't look at women the same way I look at myself.”
“Many women sign anything their husbands put in front of them. - Well, I ain't many women”
Source: Dolores Claiborne
“Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.”
“Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me that if the marriage ceremony is needed as a protection to insure the enforced support of children, then you are marrying a man who, you suspect, would under certain conditions, refuse to support his children, and it is a pretty low-down proposition. For you are marrying a man whom you already suspect of being a villain. But I have not so poor an opinion of men that I believe the greater percentage of them to be such low specimens of humanity.”
“Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.”
“Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?”
“Many women... have buoyed me up in times of weariness and stress. Each friend was important... Their words have seasoned my life. Influence, just like salt shaken out, is hard to see, but its flavor is hard to miss.”
“Many wonder: is God real? For they can't see him. Man and woman, wondering little ones. Of all souls, those who fall in love curious about reason.”
“Many wonder what a woman is made of?”
“Many wonderful things happen gently, graciously, and with no fanfare. Don't be afraid that your growth has to be painful or dramatic. It can be a gentle unfolding of what is beautiful, true, purposeful, and serene.”
Source: Sweet Spirit: Combined Volume
“Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.”
“Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality.”
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.”
“Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.”
“Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.”
“Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.”
“Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!”
Source: Anthem
“Many words need to be spoken, but not a lot of ears want to listen”
“Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.”
“Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.”
“Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.”
“Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.”
Source: Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete
“Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.”
“Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.”
Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]
“Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Many would call pledging allegiance to a corrupt government to be a form of insanity.”
“Many would have said it was inevitable that when war eventually came to his city, the king grew tired of living for others. That instead of using his magic to save the city, he decided to bury it beneath the sane and escape to the surface, where he could once again wander.
But remember: a crime forgotten is not a crime forgiven.”
Source: The Ashfire King
“Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Many writers and artists portrayed the poor sympathetically, and even fought on their behalf, but they themselves were not of that class. Gay life is perhaps even more subject to ambiguity, since it so often involves crossing classes.”
“Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.”
“Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.”
“Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better.... Forget the competition and go at your own pace. Your only contest is with yourself.”
“many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.”
Source: The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them
“Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write.”
“Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.”