M Quotes
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“Mary was a virgin and he Bible says that she 'found favor' - that means there must have been others in the race. What quality did she have that made a depository of the royal seed? She was a virgin - a clean place - he looks for clean places to deposit truth & she was open to this unique & unusual move of God.”
“Mary was able to turn a stable into a home for Jesus, with poor swaddling clothes and an abundance of love. She is the handmaid of the Father who sings his praises. She is the friend who is ever concerned that wine not be lacking in our lives. She is the woman whose heart was pierced by a sword and who understands all our pain.”
Source: The Church of Mercy
“Mary was born with an end to fulfill, just as I was. She was created to praise, reverence, and serve God, just as I was; created to save her soul, just as I was. And because of her absolute purity, she understood her end perfectly from the first moment of her existence, and followed it always without swerving. While her mother was offering her to God, she with the full use of her reason (as many hold) offered herself to fulfill the end for which she had been created. She did not know what the particular end was to be - God did not reveal to her till the day of the Incarnation, that she was to be the Mother of God - but she offered herself to do what God wished, she put herself at His disposal.”
Source: Mater Christi Meditations on Our Lady
“Mary was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession.”
“Mary was my first encounter with dissociative identity disorder (DID), which at that time was called multiple personality disorder. As dramatic as its symptoms are, the internal splitting and emergence of distinct identities experienced in DID represent only the extreme end of the spectrum of mental life.”
Source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.”
Source: The Martin Luther Christmas Book
“Mary was proud of her husband, not merely because he was a musician, but because he was a blacksmith. For, with the true taste of a right woman, she honored the manhood that could do hard work. The day will come, and may I do something to help it hither, when the youth of our country will recognize that, taken in itself, it is a more manly, and therefore in the old true sense a more _gentle_ thing, to follow a good handicraft, if it make the hands black as a coal, than to spend the day in keeping books, and making up accounts, though therein the hands should remain white--or red, as the case may be. Not but that, from a higher point of view still, all work, set by God, and done divinely, is of equal honor; but, where there is a choice, I would gladly see boy of mine choose rather to be a blacksmith, or a watchmaker, or a bookbinder, than a clerk. Production, making, is a higher thing in the scale of reality, than any mere transmission, such as buying and selling. It is, besides, easier to do honest work than to buy and sell honestly. The more honor, of course, to those who are honest under the greater difficulty! But the man who knows how needful the prayer, "Lead us not into temptation," knows that he must not be tempted into temptation even by the glory of duty under difficulty. In humility we must choose the easiest, as we must hold our faces unflinchingly to the hardest, even to the seeming impossible, when it is given us to do.”
Source: Mary Marston
“Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the wink of an eye. Life was a village fair that only lasted for a single day. As the carriage rattled along, rocking her like a babe in arms, Mary felt very old and wise. She found that she didn't mind being taken back to the castle, to a caring captivity that was filled with comforts and kindness. And she also found that she couldn't keep her eyes open.”
Source: Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
“Mary, we met in a pub. As you weren’t banging a tambourine, I understand you weren’t selling the word of God.”
“Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the river last night with no clothes on.
H'rm, said Atticus. He touched his glasses. I hope you weren't doing the backstroke.”
“Mary: What are you teaching Him at that public high school of yours, Mrs. McElroy?
Joshua: She's teaching Me that this town is the armpit of Western civilization.”
Source: Corpus Christi
“Mary wished she could look away, shut out the sculpted beauty of his face, the width of his shoulders and the scent of his cologne. She hated the impact his physical presence had on her senses. Tall and dark, lean but very muscular, sharply dressed yet deeply
tanned, he gave off the primitive, seductive aura of a powerful, desirable male.”
Source: Santiago's Secret
“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
“Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.”
“Mary Wollstonecraft was the first person to apply the phrase 'legal prostitution' to marriage.”
Source: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
“Mary Woolley wasn't only a suffragist; she was also a feminist. "Feminism is not a prejudice," she said, "It is a principle.”
Source: The Secret History of Wonder Woman
“Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly.”
Source: Cold comfort farm
“Mary's [Hamill] working from an outsider perspective and I'm working from an insider-outside perspective. In this case, it will bring an added dimension to the visual aspects of the work. Also the processes and approaches that I'm thinking are about learning. I'm playing it by ear to experiment and see what happens.”
“Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.”
Source: Mary
“Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.”
Source: Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church
“Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Mary's role is to make Her Son Shine”
“Mary, I give you my heart. Always keep it yours. Jesus, Mary, always be my friends. I beg you, let me die rather than be so unfortunate as to commit a single sin.”
“Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, your heart so full of love and humility, that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life, love Him as you loved Hitn and serve Him in the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor.”
“Mary, you make me wanna eat you
Every time I see you, it's like the first time I meet you
Fragrance like a flower, subtle and sweet too
Seductive and whatever, it might as well be see through.”
“Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen attended a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in New York City this week. Hillary told them, 'Good luck with the reboot of your '90s show.' And they said, 'Thanks. Good luck with yours.'”
“Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings. They must sweep their hearts clean of anything but kisses and theater and dancing. They must never read Pushkin; they must never say clever things; they must never have sly eyes or wear their hair loose and wander around barefoot, or they will draw his attention!”
Source: Deathless
“Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil, hypocrisy is a parlour game, like charades. Such fun, and when the evening is done we shall be holding our bellies to keep from dying of laughter.”
“Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.”
Source: Deathless
“Maryam Jameelah’s significance [lies] in the manner with which she articulates an internally consistent paradigm for [Islamic] revivalism’s rejection of the West,” her entry in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World reads. “In this regard, her influence far exceeds [that of] the Jamaat [e-Islami] and has been important in the development of revivalist thought across the Muslim world.”
Source: The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism
“Maryanne paid for her purchases, and once everything was stuffed into the blue plastic bags, she headed toward the exit. That's when she spotted her tail again... not six feet away.
"Here," she said, thrusting her purchases at J.Z.'s middle. "Since you're sticking to me like used bubble gum to my shoes, you can make yourself useful. Carry these to my car, please."
She left him, arms full of bags, jaw agape, and wend to buy a soft pretzel and an icy drink.”
Source: Mistaken For The Mob
“Marygene, girl, this is the best lime cheesecake I ever put in my mouth," Mr. Collins said from the back booth.
I stood up straight and smiled. "Thank you, Mr. Collins. That's so nice of you to say."
"Is it a new recipe?" his wife, Nita, asked.
"Not really. I tweaked it a tad. I added a bit of cream at the end that I folded in by hand. It makes the batter bake off light and airy."
"It does. So good." Nita took another bite. "Every time you tweak another recipe, you bring me a slice for dessert."
"Yes, ma'am," I said.”
Source: Southern Sass and Killer Cravings
“Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.”
Source: Forever Amber
“Marylata [ Elton] introduced me to Hans Zimmer. Hans tapped me [to] work on songs for DreamWorks' animated features. I arranged Elton John's opening main title for The Road to El Dorado, I played guitars on Shrek for Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell, I co-produced "I Can See Clearly Now" for Antz.”
“Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad air, as though she wanted to cut off his head and hide it in her closet, an envious and rueful love of him so amazingly himself, all raging and sniffy and crazy-wayed, a smile of tender dotage but also sinister envy that frightened me about her, a love she knew would never bear fruit because when she looked at his hangjawed bony face with its male self-containment and absentmindedness she knew he was too mad.”
Source: On the Road
“Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk,eh,Lucian?”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“Mary’s life shows that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are the most humble.”
“marzenie odłożone na później to marzenie, którego sobie odmawiamy.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“Marzył mi się traktat o tragiczności i błazeństwie. U nas często tragizm chadza pod rękę z błazenadą. A ja w tym upatruję naszą siłę. Ja kocham to dwuznaczne pokrewieństwo, tę ryzykowną symbiozę, ten geniusz narodu zaklęty w dwóch postawach. Nasz tragizm opalizuje, mieni się niejasnymi barwami, bulgoce bezwstydem, dotyka brzegiem granic obleśności, krztusi się histerycznym chichotem. Nasze błazeństwo ma szloch w gardle, nasze błazeństwo gryzie palce do krwi, nasze błazeństwo wiąże powróz na własnej szyi.”
Source: The Polish Complex
“Marései o trópos pou gelás."
-Silas Korba”
Source: First Days
“María ha recibido de Dios un dominio especial sobre los predestinados para alimentarlos y hacerlos crecer en Jesucristo.”
Source: The Secret of Mary
“María Magdalena quiere tocar a Cristo, retenerlo, pero el Señor le dice: «Suéltame, que todavía no he subido al Padre» (Jn 20,17). Esto nos sorprende. Es como decir: Precisamente ahora que lo tiene delante, ella puede tocarlo, tenerlo consigo. Cuando habrá subido al Padre, eso ya no será posible. Pero el Señor dice lo contrario: Ahora no lo puede tocar, retenerlo. La relación anterior con el Jesús terrenal ya no es posible. Se trata aquí de la misma experiencia a la que se refiere Pablo en 2 Corintios 5,16s: «Si conocimos a Cristo según los criterios humanos, ya no lo conocemos así. Si uno está en Cristo, es una criatura nueva». El viejo modo humano de estar juntos y de encontrarse queda superado. Ahora ya sólo se puede tocar a Jesús «junto al Padre». Únicamente se le puede tocar subiendo. Él nos resulta accesible y cercano de manera nueva: a partir del Padre, en comunión con el Padre.”
Source: Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection
“María was out of the blocks the moment she heard the doorbell jangle. She came rushing from the kitchen to greet her childhood friend with cilantro hugs and chipotle kisses.”
Source: In the Shadow of Time
“Mas a bordo daquele avião da Lufthansa, no aeroporto de Hamburgo, a sacudidela foi mais forte, mais prolongada do que nunca. «Acorda! Vê se atinas!» É por isso que escrevo este livro. Sou uma daquelas pessoas que só conseguem compreender seja o que for depois de pôr tudo no papel.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Mas a desgraça é que foi levado à loucura por Eros, deus pagão, que quanto mais reprimido, mais devasta...”
Source: The Castle Of Crossed Destinies
“Mas a exclusão, que me impus, dos fins e dos movimentos da vida; que procurei, do meu contacto com as coisas — levou-me precisamente àquilo q que eu procurava fugir. Eu não queria sentir a vida, nem tocar as coisas, sabendo, pela experiência do meu temperamento em contágio do mundo, que a sensação da vida era sempre dolorosa para mim. Mas ao evitar esse contacto, isolei-me, e, isolando-me, exacerbei a minha sensibilidade já excessiva. Se fosse possível cortar de todo o contacto com as coisas, bem iria à minha sensibilidade. Mas esse isolamento total não pode realizar-se. Por menos que eu faça, respiro; por menos que aja, movo-me. E, assim, conseguindo exacerbar e minha sensibilidade pelo isolamento, consegui que os factos mínimos, que antes mesmo a mim nada fariam, me ferissem como catástrofes. Errei o método de fuga. Fugi, por um rodeio incômodo, para o mesmo lugar onde estava, com o cansaço da viagem sobre o horror de viver ali.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“Mas a realidade sempre caía sobre mim assim que eu acordava em minha cela fria e escura, mantendo os olhos abertos só por um momento na tentativa de voltar a dormir e viver aquilo de novo. Levei várias semanas para aceitar que estava preso e que não iria para casa tão cedo. Por mais duro que fosse, esse passo foi necessário para me fazer entender minha situação e agir com objetividade para evitar o pior, em vez de perder tempo com as peças que minha mente me pregava. Muita gente não supera essa fase: perde o juízo. Vi muitos detentos que acabaram ficando loucos.
A fase dois chega quando você entende de verdade que está na prisão e que não possui nada além de todo o tempo do mundo para pensar na vida — embora em GTMO os detentos tenham também de se preocupar com os interrogatórios diários. Você entende que não tem controle sobre nada, que não decide quando vai comer, quando vai dormir, quando vai tomar banho, quando vai acordar, quando vai ao médico, quando vai estar com o interrogador. Não tem privacidade alguma; nem para expelir uma gota de urina sem ser vigiado. No começo, é horrível perder todos os privilégios num piscar de olhos, mas ainda que pareça mentira, as pessoas se acostumam. Eu mesmo me acostumei.
A fase três consiste em descobrir sua nova casa e sua nova família. Sua família é integrada por carcereiros e interrogadores. Certo, você não escolheu essa família, nem foi criado nela, mas seja como for é uma família, goste você ou não, com todas as vantagens e desvantagens. Eu pessoalmente amo minha família e não a trocaria por nada no mundo, mas criei uma família na cadeia com a qual também me preocupo. Cada vez que um membro de minha família atual vai embora, é como se um pedaço do meu coração estivesse sendo arrancado. Mas fico feliz quando um parente ruim tem de ir embora.
Fase quatro: acostumar-se à prisão e ter medo do mundo lá fora.”
Source: Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
“Mas a saudade é isto mesmo; é o passar e repassar das memórias antigas”
Source: Dom Casmurro
“Mas a sua voz, radiação cósmica de fundo ainda ecoa por aí me fazendo chorar.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Mas a sua voz, radiação cósmica de fundo ainda ecoa por aí me fazendo sorrir.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto