M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Major league baseball players and owners should meet immediately to enact the standards that apply to the minor leagues, and if they don't, I will have to introduce legislation that says professional sports will have minimum standards for testing. I'll give them until January, and then I'll introduce legislation.”
“Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.”
“Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich owners - principally, the Yankees'. The owners' primary objective is a more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The union believes that unconstrained spending by the richest three teams pulls up all payrolls. Most owners believe that baseball's problems--competitive imbalance, the parlous financial conditions of many clubs--result from large and growing disparities of what are mistakenly treated as 'local' revenues.”
“Major Li Saiophong was the man who had held Jeff in captivity for over two months. He had subjected Fortner to a daily regimen of starvation, brutality and torture. He had never broken Lt. Fortner, USMC; though he had come close. Jeff had been rescued by his MACV-SOG team in September 1966. After their evac, the camp was napalmed, and Saiophong was thought to have perished in the conflagration. Knowing he still lived sent a chill up Fortner’s spine. His back still bore the scars of the ritualistic bamboo caning.”
Source: Solitary Man
“Major life events—starting a new job, moving, getting married, having children—have the same effect, many times over. They take away our habit cues and remove the predictability of life. They shake everything up, and for a moment, all of your behaviors—habitual and otherwise—are in the air, waiting for you to direct their placement. Yes, major life changes are stressful times full of uncertainty. But they are also opportunities to reimagine ourselves and restructure our lives. We are freed up to practice new behaviors without interference from established cues and our habitual responses to them.”
Source: Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick
“Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.”
Source: Catch-22: A Novel
“Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.”
Source: Catch-22: A Novel
“Major Mohit Sharma must have been a Poet at heart. Poets feel everything deeply.”
“Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.”
Source: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography
“Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.”
Source: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography
“Major organizational changes create uncertainty.”
“Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s
"People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."”
“Major parties have lived more for patronage than for principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to get into power; and once in power, to arrange sufficiently satisfactory compromises of interests to remain there.”
Source: The Age of Reform (Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History, 1956): From Bryan to F.D.R.
“Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.”
“Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.”
“Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.”
“Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, a deed that places him among the stout-hearted pioneers who gave their lives in the conquest of sky and space.”
“Major scientific insights are characteristically intuitive, and equally characteristically described in scientific papers by linear analytical arguments. There is no anomaly in this: it is, rather, just as it should be. The creative act has major right-hemisphere components. But arguments on the
validity of the result are largely left-hemisphere functions.”
“Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.”
“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”
“Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.”
“Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.”
“Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.”
“Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of Jewish history and tradition, Major Trends is a major port of entry through which one must pass.”
“Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.”
“Major Yildiz has a contact in Stuttgart who is a high-ranking officer of the US V Corps. He is going to help us.”
Source: Lost Identity
“Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.”
“Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)
“Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.”
“Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.”
Source: Individualist anarchist pamphlets
“Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.”
Source: A Last Vintage: Essays and Papers
“Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.”
“Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population once enslaved 20% of the population. While run by majority rule that is ok. That is very flawed notion of what democracy is. Democracy has to take into account several things - proportionate requirements of people, not just needs of the majority, but also needs of the minority. Majority, especially in societies where the media manipulates public opinion, can be totally wrong and evil. People have to act according to conscience and not by majority vote.”
“Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.”
Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner
“Majorities, of course, start with minorities.”
“Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information more mindfully. Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.”
“Majority does not mean Right. Minority does not mean Wrong. Always maintain a stand for what is right.”
“Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.”
“Majority may be authority but only for the damn majority.”
Source: Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew
“Majority may not be always right minority may be because intelligence is not available at nearest store but stupidity flow with air”
“Majority of Africans are exceptionally hygienic, well-dressed and elegant”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away. Eventually, the success goes away because that is the command "excuses" gave out; "pack and go"!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away! Never be impressed by calling attentions that tell you to give up! Insist, Resist and Persist to the end!”
Source: Shaping the dream
“Majority of folks out there are trying to make a difference. Don't just make a difference; become the difference!”
“Majority of our unhappiness comes from others.Someone did something or someone did not do something.
What if we change our wiring to associate our happiness with ourselves instead.
I did a good deed so I am happy.
I was fair so I am happy.
I still kept on the right path so I am happy.
I in that bad experience explored myself a little more so I am happy.
I am peaceful so I am happy.
Old ways of thinking have broken us enough
it's time to change !”
“Majority of people entering your life only come to distract you. They ain't there to be with you, support you or love you. They come to get something or stop you from the progress you are making. They are priks for your life. Don't let them in. Or if happened to do so, make sure they understand that they don't matter to you. Tell them, "you are a nobody, you can't hurt me because I don't see you, you don't exist, you are just a bad dream. I am waking up now and you are not there anymore.”
“Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face.”
“Majority of people who are easily stressed are the one's who think too much about the problems instead of solutions. Always focus on solutions. - Subodh Gupta, author, "Stress Management A Holistic Approach - 5 Steps Plan”
Source: Stress Management A Holistic Approach
“Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key.”
“Majority of this current generation are just broken factory machines that need repairs and if not repaired , they will continue to pollute the environment with what they call ''opinions”