M Quotes
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“Maisha tunayoishi ni mafupi, maisha ya mbinguni ni ya milele. Fundisha familia yako upendo na hofu ya Mungu, kwani hiyo ndiyo akili kushinda zote. Hekima ya kutunza familia inapatikana katika kitabu cha Mithali cha Agano la Kale.”
“Maisha yangu ni darasa.”
“Maisha yangu ni darasa. Jifunzeni kutokana na maisha yangu, jifunzeni kutokana na sifa zangu za ushupavu, jifunzeni kutokana na sifa zangu za udhaifu, kutatua matatizo katika maisha yenu.”
“Maisha yangu ni kafara ya mafanikio yangu.”
“Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.”
Source: In This Grave Hour
“Maisie was restless, waking every hour or so, then slipping into a half-sleep before she began to dream again, as if she had fallen through a fissure in consciousness and was aware of herself sleeping.”
Source: A Dangerous Place
“Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as “the dancing mushroom.” According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate.”
“Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.”
“Maitre d's are at the financial spigot of the restaurant, meaning they control who gets in and who doesn't, but aside from that, they don't do anything. And yet they get paid as much as the highest-paid people in the place.”
“Maitreyi continuă totuşi cu o simplitate care începu să mă cucerească. Vorbea apei, vorbea cerului cu stele, pădurii, pămîntului. Îşi sprijini bine în iarbă pumnii purtînd inelul şi făgădui: ― Mă leg pe tine, pămîntule, că eu voi fi a lui Allan, şi a nimănui altuia. Voi creşte din el ca iarba din tine. Şi cum aştepţi tu ploaia, aşa îi voi aştepta eu venirea, şi cum îţi sunt ţie razele, aşa va fi trupul lui mie. Mă leg în faţa ta că unirea noastră va rodi, căci mi-e drag cu voia mea, şi tot răul, dacă va fi, să nu cadă asupra lui, ci asupră-mi, căci eu l-am ales. Tu mă auzi, mamă pămînt, tu nu mă minţi, maica mea. Dacă mă simţi aproape, cum te simt eu acum, şi cu mîna şi cu inelul, întăreşte-mă să-l iubesc totdeauna, bucurie necunoscută lui să-i aduc, viaţă de rod şi de joc să-i dau. Să fie viaţa noastră ca bucuria ierburilor ce cresc din tine. Să fie îmbrăţişarea noastră ca cea dinţii zi a monsoon-ului. Ploaie să fie sărutul nostru. Şi cum tu niciodată nu oboseşti, maica mea, tot astfel să nu obosească inima mea în dragostea pentru Allan, pe care cerul l-a născut departe, şi tu, maică, mi l-ai adus aproape.”
“Maize is just another word for white corn, and by the end of this story, you won't believe how much you know about corn.”
Source: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
“Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill’s division, which had remained behind at Harpers Ferry to oversee the surrender, was marching hard to reach the battlefield. The only question was whether Hill’s “Light Division” would arrive in time to save the Army of Northern Virginia.6”
Source: The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of The Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign, Including the Battle of South Mountain, September 2 - 20, 1862
“Majambazi huwapenda wanaowapenda. Chukulia mfano huu: Mimi na Wanda ni marafiki, OK? Baba yake, au genge la baba yake, hataweza kunidhuru au kuwadhuru watu ninaowapenda kwa sababu tu ya urafiki na mtoto wake. Na yeye anaweza kufumbiwa macho akifanya makosa kwa sababu mimi na mtoto wake ni marafiki wakubwa. Murphy, hapa Meksiko tuna kitu kinaitwa Bima ya Utekaji Nyara ('Ransom Insurance'). Zamani nilikuwa nalipa dola milioni kumi za Marekani kama bima ya utekaji nyara; Lisa alikuwa analipa milioni nne na Wanda bado analipa milioni mbili mpaka sasa hivi. Baada ya mimi na Lisa kujenga urafiki na Wanda, malipo yetu ya bima yamepungua mpaka dola milioni moja kwa mwaka.”
Source: Kolonia Santita
“Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.”
“Majestic doesn't appeal to us. We [Americans] like the Grand Canyon better with Clarence and Arlene parked in front of it, smiling.”
“Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.”
“Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.”
“Majesty, there is less danger in fearing too much than too little.”
Source: His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
“Majesty, I beg your forgiveness for the idignity you suffered and offer you the head of our enemy as—" "Put that thing down," I said impatiently. "I can't talk to you when you're shaking his head like a damned maraca.”
Source: Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel
“MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.”
Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
“Majina ya vitabu yanapaswa kuchaguliwa kwa mantiki na kwa makini ya hali ya juu mno, kwa sababu ni miongoni mwa vitu vya kwanza watu wanavyoviona na kuvisoma. Watu wakivutiwa na jina la kitabu, au mwandishi; kitu cha pili watakachovutiwa kuangalia ni dibaji, kusudi wasome muhtasari wa kitabu kizima. Kwa hiyo dibaji inapaswa iandikwe kwa mantiki na kwa makini ileile iliyotumika katika kuchagua jina la kitabu. Lengo la jina la kitabu na dibaji ni kuishawishi hadhira kusoma kitabu na kukifurahia.”
“Majka joj je jednom rekla da je djetinjstvo veliki modri val koji čovjeka podigne i odnese sa sobom, i baš kad misliš da će trajati zauvijek, nestane.”
Source: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“Majnun may gaze at Layla‘s beauty, but this Layla is only a mirror […] God with Majnun‘s eye looks upon His own beauty in Layla, and through Majnun He loves Himself.”
Source: Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes
“Major brands don't know what to do with happy customers. They make it hard for customers to say thanks and way too often companies don't celebrate and embrace customers' positive gestures.”
“Major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action.”
“Major cities are divided into two parts; the bits that are in the guidebook and the bits that aren't. If you don't take a guidebook, you'll see a different city.”
“Major danger lie for America? That we could very well be defeated oversees and at home. And the source of it is clearly that we have yet to find a politician in either partywho's willing to tell the American people the truth.”
“Major depressive disorder is a disease caused by features of the contemporary Western lifestyle: social isolation, limited physical activity, chronic stress and unhealthy food.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Major donors want you to be effective and efficient — but most of all, they want to know you understand and value their partnership.”
Source: Magnetic Nonprofit: Attract and Retain Donors, Volunteers, and Staff to Increase Nonprofit Fundraising
“Major efforts have to be undertaken to bring the general public to understand the real reasons for their plight, and the possibilities for radical social and political change to construct meaningful popular control of all institutions - in communities, in the workplace, in the larger society, and on to the international order.”
“Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Major fluctuations in weight gain and loss are detrimental to your health and embarrassing to explain to your friends and family.”
“Major General Leonard Wood
Leonard Wood was an army officer and physician, born October 9, 1860 in Winchester, New Hampshire. His first assignment was in 1886 at Fort Huachuca, Arizona where he fought in the last campaign against the fierce Apache warrior Geronimo. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for carrying dispatches 100 miles through hostile territory and was promoted to the rank of Captain, commanding a detachment of the 8th Infantry.
From 1887 to 1898, he served as a medical officer in a number of positions, the last of which was as the personal physician to President William McKinley. In 1898 at the beginning of the war with Spain, he was given command of the 1st Volunteer Cavalry. The regiment was soon to be known as the “Rough Riders." Wood lead his men on the famous charge up San Juan Hill and was given a field promotion to brigadier general.
In 1898 he was appointed the Military Governor of Santiago de Cuba. In 1920, as a retired Major General, Wood ran as the Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States, losing to Warren Harding. In 1921 following his defeat, General Wood accepted the post of Governor General of the Philippines. He held this position from 1921 to 1927, when he died of a brain tumor in Boston, on 7 August 1927, at 66 years of age after which he was buried, with full honors, in Arlington National Cemetery.”
“Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he advanced was, "that a mere creature or finite being could not make satisfaction to infinite justice for any crimes," and that "these things are very mysterious." Thus mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity.”
Source: Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Diary, 1755-1770
“Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he opened it sceptically. On the title page it said: ‘Co-ordination of Departmental Action on the Occurrence of Strained Relations and on the Outbreak of War’. Hankey, a spare, neat figure who reminded him of his old school gym instructor, had spent years of his life devising this bureaucratic masterpiece.
Remind me how it works.
The Foreign Secretary formally warns the Cabinet that he can “forsee the danger of this country being involved in war in the near future” and that sets the machine in motion. Eleven government departments will then send out the warning telegram across the Empire – ports, railways, post offices, army headquarters, police stations, town halls and so forth – initiating the precautionary phase. The recipients have already been issued with instructions, so they know what to do when they receive the warning telegram.
And what does this telegram say?
“In the circumstance that Great Britain is at war with …, act upon instructions.”
How many telegrams will be sent?
…thousands.
Pg93”
Source: Precipice
“Major heat wave in India - 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to hear if their job is being outsourced to India.”
“Major improvements don't happen over night. Their are many moments inching towards improvement. The difference between those who make major improvements in their lives are the ones who embrace patience and wait through the darkness as long as it takes.”
“Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.”
“Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.”
“Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.”
“Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.”
“Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.”
“Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.”
“Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.”
“Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.”
“Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.”
“Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.”
“Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.”
“Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.”
“Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.”