M Quotes
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“Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do." "Oh," said Harry. "You may, if you wish, unhorse him first," Mathin added as an afterthought. "Thanks," said Harry.”
“Mathiness: British economic journalist John Kay defines mathiness as a “use of algebraic symbols
and quantitative data to give an appearance of scientific content to ideological preconceptions.”
Expressing an idea in mathematical symbols instead of straightforward literary terms helps legitimize
it in the minds of many people, thanks to a seeming similarity with natural science. In this respect
math is basically a form of numerical rhetoric.
“The American economist Paul Romer has recently
written of ‘mathiness,’ by analogy with ‘truthiness,’ a term coined by American talk show host
Stephen Colbert. Truthiness presents narratives which are not actually true, but consistent with the
world view of the person who spins the story. It is exemplified in rightwing fabrications about
European health systems – their death panels and forced euthanasia.”
Paul Samuelson, for instance, trivialized economics in terms that give the outward appearance of science by being expressed mathematically, even when its assumptions are purely hypothetical (and not all realistic)and there are no quantitative statistics to illustrate its categories.”
Source: J Is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception
“Maths is at only one remove from magic.”
“Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school.”
“Maths seem to be based on predestination. You have the question, but the answer is already there. Your task is to get it correct, no matter how many times you have failed.”
“Mati adalah nyata hidup adalah pintasan, jangan takut kehilangan jangan berhenti berharap. Manusia banyak kecewanya, jangan ambisius sama bahagia, carilah nyaman pada tempatnya.”
“Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we won’t repeat the same mistakes, that we won’t continue to do harm.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“Mati Itu Misteri,tapi itu Pasti.”
“Mati tidak selalu tentang berhentinya detak jantung manusia. Mati yang sesungguhnya ialah ketika manusia kehilangan kemampuan untuk berteriak dengan keras dan lantang.”
Source: Mencari yang Mustahil
“Mati took in my expression, and a moment later I was in his arms. His kisses washed over me like floodwater over parched earth. I clutched him helplessly, tears falling down my face and mingling with his as he whispered my name.”
Source: Sword and Verse
“Matilah dengan iradat, tetapi hiduplah dengan tabiat.”
“Matilah engkau mati
kau akan lahir berkali-kali...”
Source: Laut Bercerita
“Matilda’s innate qualities made her a queen contemporaries could respect. 'Successes did not make her happy, nor did troubles make her sad. Troubles brought a smile to her, successes fear. Beauty did not produce weakness in her, nor power pride; she alone was both powerful and humble, both beautiful and chaste.”
Source: Queens of the Conquest
“Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.”
Source: Matilda
“Matilda threw some grain onto the ground for the chickens. A smile flitted across her lips at the thought that she’d saved these last six chickens from the oaf’s mad obsession with collecting feathers”
Source: The Treasure
“Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.”
Source: Cautionary Tales for Children
“Matilde había sido siempre fea, trabajadora, decían que inteligente. Su familia era muy humilde. A costa de becas y de esfuerzos le habían pagado una carrera universitaria. Pero ella tenía un tipo refinado, de intelectual nata; un desparpajo natural, una autoridad que encubría cierta timidez muy oculta. A los veintisiete años Matilde no había tenido un solo pretendiente a sus encantos. Muy allá dentro sabía ella que esto no le hubiera importado lo más mínimo si no existiera esa manía, inculcada desde la cuna en las mujeres, de que han nacido para gustar a los hombres, y que si no su vida puede considerarse un puro fracaso.
Matilde no podía decir la verdad; no podía decir: ‘No me interesan lo más mínimo los asuntos amorosos…’ Esta verdad encontraba siempre una sonrisa compasiva. Y esta sonrisa compasiva fue la que la hizo sentirse preocupada y amargada por tal asunto. Compuso unas poesías muy oscuras, muy intelectualizadas, sobre el ansia del amor carnal -ansia que jamás había sentido-, ya que el espiritual le parecía un poco ridículo como tema. Entre su grupo de amigos aquellas poesías tuvieron franco éxito. Ahora sabía ella que aquellos versos no valían nada; que ella no era artista, sino organizadora, constructora. Hasta se avergonzaba al pensar en ello.”
Source: La isla y los demonios
“Matilde se la había dado todo. Pero eso un hombre no lo agradece nunca, eso se paga profiriendo un insulto. Otras mujeres esperaban su turno y serían menos torpes de lo que ella fue.”
Source: Balún Canán
“Mating Practices of Earth Monkeys
(Sonnet 2440)
In a materialist society,
be it modern or medieval,
woman's clock starts at 19 and
ends at 29, while a man's clock starts
at 30 and runs till he drops dead.
Young women going for older men is
nothing new, it's been the relationship
norm of apekind for thousands of years.
Regardless of your hypocrisies,
in a materialist society, a man's value
is measured by his money, not morality,
and a woman's value is measured
by her flesh, not her mind.
Two grown adults have a right to happiness
however they choose, just make sure that,
there's some conscious choice involved
in your decision, not mere jungle instinct.
If you wanna know why not,
ask a 20 year old penniless boy,
or a 50 year old shapeless woman.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security.”
“Matins
You want to know how I spend my time?
I walk the front lawn, pretending
to be weeding. You ought to know
I'm never weeding, on my knees, pulling
clumps of clover from the flower beds: in fact
I'm looking for courage, for some evidence
my life will change, though
it takes forever, checking
each clump for the symbolic
leaf, and soon the summer is ending, already
the leaves turning, always the sick trees
going first, the dying turning
brilliant yellow, while a few dark birds perform
their curfew of music. You want to see my hands?
As empty now as at the first note.
Or was the point always
to continue without a sign?”
Source: The Wild Iris
“Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.”
Source: Let's see: writings on art from the New Yorker
“Matisse, consultado sobre la piel verde: No estoy pintando una mujer. Estoy pintando un cuadro.”
Source: Reader’s Block
“Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”
“Matisse renovates rather than innovates.”
“Matiyas is the one-stop solution for complete digital transformation. We are a highly promising ERP solution provider for business automation. We are providing world-class solutions to the small and medium scale business.”
“Mato a fome esturricando-a com farinha.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Mato o assunto mas ele volta pra me assombrar.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Matriarchy, if it existed, would be identical to patriarchy, with females dominant. Women have wielded great power in the world and have had personal authority over men in their families or communities. But no society has institutionalised female-dominance, a sociopolitical structure giving women authority over men and the right to use force against them. So entrenched is patriarchal thinking, however, that people commonly use the term "Matriarchy" to describe women living free of male authority.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
“Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.”
“Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.”
“matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink.”
“Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.”
“Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.”
“Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.”
“Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.”
Source: Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
“Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.”
“Matrona felt too old to be a grandmother, an irony that made her laugh when she said it. The girls didn’t listen, and half defeated her each time she tried to give an order. Nonetheless, for one feeling the power of symbols, something was afoot in the landing of the whale. Her own grandmother told history in terms of such visits from strangers. Things usually didn’t turn out well. The story of conquests was old yet powerful.
“Something will change now,” she told the girls, working a needle through the canvas.”
“Matrubharti: A Treasure Trove of Indian Stories and Culture”
“Matt 13:57. Then Jesus told them, 'A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his own family.' The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.”
“Matt 5:38–42 brings it home
Jesus said back down if it means losing face. Jesus is describing a much more humble attitude than the one that hurt us—one that perhaps includes a tacit recognition of the other person’s hurt or anger over your own.”
“Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage.”
“Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.”
“Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.”
“Matt Connor had already lied to fourteen people since he'd arrived at the office and it was only 11:00am.”
Source: A Whiter Shade of Christmas
“Matt Cooke may be the worst fighter in the history of the National Hockey League.”
“Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that.”
“Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And I suspect that over the next couple of years that impact will grow to the point where it will damage journalism's ability to do its job professionally, to check out information before publication, to be mindful of the necessity to publish and broadcast reliable, substantiated information.”
“Matt Frauenshuh joined his family’s Dairy Queen franchises in 2006 when the group comprised only seven stores across the country.”
“Matt Hardy may be dysfunctional, but you can't spell dysfunctional without fun. My goal in the professional wrestling industry is to put fun into the dysfunctionality of it.”