M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Measure your wealth not by the things you can buy but by the things no money can buy.”
“Measure yourself against the enemy before declaring war; those who fail to hunt the foxes in the neighbourhood should stay clear of the elephants.”
“Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.”
“Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.”
“Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.”
Source: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.”
“Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail.”
“Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.”
Source: Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy
“Measured by European standards the ideological documents of Maoism, and especially the theoretical writings of Mao himself, appear in fact extremely primitive and clumsy, sometimes even childish; in comparison, even Stalin gives the impression of a powerful theorist.”
Source: Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
“Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.”
Source: The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses
“Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.”
“Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically decorous and methodologically unimpeachable, but conclusions are often trivial and rarely useful in decision making. This results from an overly rigorous control of an insignificant variable and a widespread deficiency in the framing of pertinent questions. Investigators seem to have settled for what is measurable instead of measuring what they would really like to know.”
“Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important”
“Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.”
“Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.”
Source: A Pair of Blue Eyes
“Measurements is your saving grace if you want to raise steam.”
Source: Raising Steam
“Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.”
Source: The Production and Properties of Positrons ...
“Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.”
“Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.”
“Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.”
Source: The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love
“Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.”
“Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective”
Source: Bertrand Russell's best: silhouettes in satire
“Measures of tribe ain't measures of the seer.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.”
“Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.”
Source: Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791
“Measures, not men, have always been my mark.”
Source: The good natur'd man: a comedy, etc
“Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches.”
“Measuring God by how people - even godly people - have mistreated you is not a good measuring stick.”
Source: The Thief of Blackfriars Lane
“Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.”
“Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.”
“Measuring our outer and inner world can be problem-solving, but emotions may resist quantification, needing flexibility, intuition, and contextual interpretation. (“ Measuring space »)”
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
“Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give”
“Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.”
“Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.”
“Meat consumption shouldn't be normal.”
“Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.”
Source: Waverley Novels: The monastery
“Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.”
Source: Ahiṃsā: Buddhism and the Vegetarian Ideal
“Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.”
“Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth.”
“Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.”
“Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”
“Meat is dirty. I wouldn't touch a hot dog without a condom on it”
“Meat is flesh, milk is food intended for the baby of the mother who’s secreting it, cooking is setting fire to one’s food, effectively burning and destroying it.”
Source: Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy
“Meat is Meat', Father said, then went about the fellow with a whalebone in the normal fashion, not hurrying the task, but casting a watchful gaze about them as he cut.”
Source: Ever Winter
“Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.”
“Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.”