M Quotes
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“Meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.”
Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
“Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.”
“Meth is a national problem to the extent that it's not limited to one state; it's not limited to one region of the country. As to whether or not it requires a national solution, I'm not sure we're there yet, but that's something that's certainly being debated on the Hill; it's certainly something that we're discussing within the administration and that will continue.”
“Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children.”
“Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.”
“Methamphetamine is a highly dangerous drug that is wreaking havoc on families and communities throughout this country. The drug's use is spreading across the United States.”
“Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.”
“Methane emissions are lower in biodiverse pasture systems largely because of fumaric acid – a compound that scientists at the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen identified as leading to faster growth and reducing emissions of methane by 70 per cent when added to the diet of lambs. Fumaric acid occurs widely in many plants and herbs of the field and hedgerow, including angelica, common fumitory, shepherd’s purse and bird’s-foot trefoil.”
Source: Wilding
“Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.”
Source: The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play : with a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper Heads
“Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!”
Source: The Autobiography
“Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.”
“Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book
“Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore
My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.”
“Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.”
“Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.”
Source: The Letters of Sir Walter Scott ...: 1815-1817
“Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied.”
Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography
“Methinks love maketh men like Angels.”
“Methinks some trouble may be worth stirring,” she remarked. “The company Our Lord kept was not altogether lauded either. Some shepherds are determined to find lost sheep, I suppose, even at the risk of smelling like them.”
Source: Saplings of Sherwood
“Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.”
“Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.”
“Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.”
“Methinks we have a clue. Be still, my heart.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.”
Source: Moby Dick
“Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.”
Source: Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone
“Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people, trying to address different ideas in a way that would go beyond preaching to the choir.”
“Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.”
“Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.”
“Method actors are like hams.”
“Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Method helps intuition when it is not transformed into dictatorship. Intuition augments method if it does not instill anarchy. In every moment of our semiotic existence, method and intuition complement one another.”
“Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.”
“Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.”
Source: The spectator
“Method is the arithmetic of success.”
“Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.”
Source: The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life
“Method Man, for him to offer me the spot as the first Jewish member of the Wu Tang Clan, you know, was an honor.”
“Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.”
“Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“Method will teach you to win time.”
“Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration”
“Methodically messaging in a harmony of honor, humility, authenticity and authority may create more resonation for your story to be heard by that many more connections.”
“Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.”
“Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism that gives advice to philosophers, which I call "methodological naturalismp." It says that the methods that philosophers should use in assessing philosophical theories are limited to the methods that scientists ought to use in assessing scientific theories.”
“Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify”
“Methodologically speaking, the rejection by [John] Boswell of the categorical opposition between homosexual and heterosexual, which plays such a significant role in the way our culture conceives of homosexuality, represents an advance not only in scholarship but in cultural criticism as well.”
“Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.”
“Methodology is applied ideology.”
“Methodology is intuition reconstructed in tranquility.”
“Methodology is to an approach what vehicle is to a journey.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.”
“Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.”
Source: My Disillusionment in Russia