M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Meeting someone on a summer's evening is like giving a dead flame new life.”
Source: Open Water
“Meeting someone with the same vision doesn't mean you have to compete for success. It means you've found a companion to succeed together.”
“Meeting specifications is not enough.”
“Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.”
“Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.”
“Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.”
“Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife”
“Meeting the people. I love it. Just talking with people and sharing part of their lives for just a few moments ... I get love and appreciation and I hope I give them the same.”
“Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.”
“Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar.”
“Meeting Tony's eyes for the first time since dad turned to me we began our slow walk down the short aisle. I will never forget the way Tony's eyes glistened in the small church, the expression of utter joy on his face - his love for me visible for all to see. Only one that has experienced true love can understand what we felt in that moment as he waited impatiently for me to meet him at the altar, and as I walked, but wanted to run to stand at his side.”
“Meeting up once a year on the same date sounds like a really good basis for a romance novel. If you fictionalized our story I'd add it to the top of my TBR.”
Source: November 9
“Meeting up with Paris and Paris was such a highlight in Greece. Dancing at the clubs was a blast. There are just certain people you know you'll always have fun with, and Paris Hilton is definitely one of those people.”
“Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.”
“Meeting you,
in my dreams
Kissing you,
in the cool breeze
Awaken me, to your colors,
as to feel my heartbeat.
You never cease to amaze me, and see me
as I am.
I love you and I kiss you
For a new day is birthed, through the grace
of your hand -
Here, is where I am.”
Source: Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul
“Meeting you was a disaster.”
She raised a brow. “Thank you.”
Djel, he was terrible at this. He stumbled on, trying to make her understand. “But I am grateful every day for that disaster. I needed a cataclysm to shake me from the life I knew. You were an earthquake, a landslide.”
“I,” she said, planting a hand on her hip, “am a delicate flower.”
“You aren’t a flower, you’re every blossom in the wood blooming at once. You are a tidal wave. You’re a stampede. You are overwhelming.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“Meeting you was fate..
Becoming your friend was a choice..
But falling in love with you I had no control over.”
“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
“Meeting your soulmate has a certain amount of meant-to-be-ness to it, AND it requires a big dose of make-it-happen-ness.”
“Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.”
“Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”
“Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.”
“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.”
Source: The World According to Dave Barry
“Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.”
“Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but because it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action.”
Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929
“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”
Source: Ambassador's Journal
“Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living.”
“Meetings between Presidents, as you know, are supposed to be privileged. They're supposed to be confidential. They're supposed to allow the president and other leaders to have frank exchanges.”
“Meetings constitute the charm of travelling. Who does not know the joy of coming, five hundred leagues from one's native land, upon a Parisian, a college friend, or a neighbour in the country? Who has not spent a night, unable to sleep, in the little jingling stage-coach of countries where steam is still unknown, beside a strange young woman, half seen by the gleam of the lantern when she clambered into the carriage at the door of a white house in a little town?”
Source: 88 More Stories
“Meetings create worldly connections, while separations can be heart-wrenching. Yet a broken heart will eventually find healing through a new bond. Like medicine healing a wound, the right person will be discovered. Such love is strong as tree roots. Patience is key in waiting for the right person.”
“Meetings don't have to be endless to be eternal.”
“Meetings embody and reveal your team culture. They expose who has the power, who gets listened to, and who feels comfortable speaking up.”
Source: The Boldly Inclusive Leader: Transform Your Workplace (and the World) by Valuing the Differences Within
“Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.”
“Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.”
Source: The House In Paris
“Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?”
“MeFirst was a corporation, a legal fiction. Its only moral obligation was to make money for its shareholders.”
Source: Dreck
“Mefistófeles: “De sol e de mundos nada sei dizer, vejo apenas como os homens se atormentam. O pequeno Deus do mundo [o homem] continua na mesma e está tão admirável assim como no primeiro dia. Um pouco melhor ele viveria, não lhe tivesses dado o brilho da luz celeste; ele chama isto razão e lança mão dela somente para ser mais animalesco do que cada animal.”
Source: Faust, First Part
“Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense.”
Source: The Wish List
“Meg Cabot is the best author ever”
“Meg felt her heart lurch. It bothered her that the twins realized that she hated their brother. The words coming from their innocent mouths sounded so ugly.”
Source: Always to Remember
“Meg forgot about cautioning him to be quiet. She forgot about everything but watching the care with which he wrapped a blanket around Mama Warner before gingerly lifting her into his arms and cradling her against his chest.
"Comfortable?" he asked.
"You know how to hold a woman so she feels precious. Makes me wish I was sixty years younger.”
Source: Always to Remember
“Meg gagged. "I hate bugs."
That made sense for a daughter of the agriculture goddess, but to me the dead ant didn't seem any grosser than the piles of garbage in which we often swam.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.”
“Meg gawked. “He—he really is a centaur.”
“Well spotted,” I said. “I suppose the lower body of a horse is what gave him away?”
She punched me in the arm.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“Meg,” he whispered. “It wouldn’t be real love if there weren’t the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn’t choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That’s why there’s evil in this world, because there’s free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.”
Source: Glass Girl
“Meg kellett szoknom, hogy át kell gondolni, mit árulok el a partneremről, hogy hogyan viselkedem nyilvánosan. Nem azért, mert szégyenlős voltam – feszengtem persze egy kicsit, de nem próbáltam titkolni a kapcsolataimat –, csak hát az akkori barátnőm, Kátya teljesen leszbofób volt. A barátai közül szinte senki sem tudott a kapcsolatunkról. (...) Követtem őt, mint egy kiskutya, a tenyeremen akartam őt hordozni, összevissza akartam őt csókolgatni, kényeztetni akartam minden egyes pillanatban. Ő meg semmibe vett engem.”
Source: Wound
“Meg looked at me with something resembling respect. “What did you do to them?”
“Nothing,” I said. “Half the trick to being a god is knowing how to bluff.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the shadow was, the stars were not visible.
What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear that was beyond shuddering, beyond crying or screaming, beyond the possibility of comfort?”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
“Meg makes a face and lays her hand on my arm. "And why, exactly, would John want to see Eurotrash?"
"Hello?" Ryan says. "Because he's a seventeen-year old guy with normal male urges, and she's got-" He holds both hands out from his chest.
"Really pretty eyes," I complete his sentence.”
Source: Cloaked
“Meg peered at me over the top of her glasses. “You’re the dumbest god ever”
Source: The Tyrant's Tomb