M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.”
Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“Might I interest you in murder and a meal?”
Source: Off the Air
“Might I,” quavered Mary, “might I have a bit of earth?”
In her eagerness she did not realize how queer the words would sound and that they were not the ones she had meant to say. Mr. Craven looked quite startled.
“Earth!” he repeated. “What do you mean?”
“To plant seeds in—to make things grow—to see them come alive,” Mary faltered.
He gazed at her a moment and then passed his hand quickly over his eyes.
“Do you—care about gardens so much,” he said slowly.
“I didn’t know about them in India,” said Mary. “I was always ill and tired and it was too hot. I sometimes made little beds in the sand and stuck flowers in them. But here it is different.”
Mr. Craven got up and began to walk slowly across the room.
“A bit of earth,” he said to himself, and Mary thought that somehow she must have reminded him of something. When he stopped and spoke to her his dark eyes looked almost soft and kind.
“You can have as much earth as you want,” he said. “You remind me of some one else who loved the earth and things that grow. When you see a bit of earth you want,” with something like a smile, “take it, child, and make it come alive.”
Source: The Secret Garden
“Might I remind us that taking dirt out of the hole that we’re standing in and putting it back in that same hole both requires a similar degree of effort. But not digging it out in the first place may require the greatest effort of all.”
“Might I take this moment to give thanks to our loving Creator for supplying us with all our needs for this day and always!”
Grampa Foster, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea”
Source: The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
“Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories
“Might I work to be better than the self that I claim is better.”
“Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?”
Source: The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)
“Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."”
Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own
“Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead?...It would be the ultimate breach of privacy.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
“Might it be that I’ve lost everything so that I can recognize the fact that everything had become my everything?”
“Might it be that the Transition approach, of creating vibrant local economies with increased community ownership, meeting practical needs from as nearby as possible, and living well while consuming far less energy than we do today, could actually better meet our needs?”
“Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans. Whether we're born in San Francisco or Sudan or close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.”
“Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted flotsam, brimming with capricious, violent, and yet eternally transparent blues and greens.”
Source: Thirst for love
“Might it have been possible for Napoleon to win this battle? We answer no. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No. Because of God.
For Bonaparte to be conqueror at Waterloo was no longer within the law of the nineteenth century. Another series of acts was under way in which Napoleon had no place. The ill-will of events had long been coming.
It was time for this titan to fall.
The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the equilibrium. This individual alone counted for more than the whole of mankind. This plethora of all human vitality concentrated within a single head, the world rising to the brain of one man, would be fatal to civilization if it endured. The moment had come for incorruptible supreme equity to look into it. Probably the principles and elements on which regular gravitation in the moral and material orders depend had begun to mutter. Reeking blood, overcrowded cemeteries, weeping mothers–these are formidable plaintiffs. When the earth is suffering from a surcharge, there are mysterious moanings from the deeps that the heavens hear.
Napoleon had been impeached before the Infinite, and his fall was decreed.
He annoyed God.
Waterloo is not a battle; it is the changing face of the universe.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Might let him take it home and slaughter that/ He got friends for all of my friends/ They ain't leaving 'till we say when/ And we gon' hangover the next day.”
“Might not be the interest of falling in love might be to rise in sex”
“Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?" "I bet you'll tell me." " 'If you're reading this, you are one.' " You're a riot.”
Source: Grip of the Shadow Plague
“Might not live long but I know I'ma die happy.”
“Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.”
“Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means that universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. And the political implications of that run far deeper than the question of student fees.”
“Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in all species that exist today? Chance, one might say, produced an innumerable multitude of individuals; a small number turned out to be constructed in such fashion that the parts of the animal could satisfy its needs; in another, infinitely greater number, there was neither suitability nor order: all of the later have perished; animals without a mouth could not live, others lacking organs for reproduction could not perpetuate themselves: the only ones to have remained are those in which were found order and suitability; and these species, which we see today, are only the smallest part of what blind fate produced.”
“Might one suggest to the people that they storm the opera house and tear it down on the symbolic date of 14 July? Might one suggest that they parade the bloody heads of our modern cultural governors on the end of pikestaffs?
But we no longer make history. We have become reconciled with it and protect it like an endangered masterpiece. Times have changed.”
Source: The Illusion of the End
“Might paint something I might want to hang here someday, might write something I might want to say to you someday, might do something I'd be proud of someday. Mark my words, I might be something someday.”
“Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!”
“MIGHT, something God only has.”
“Might sound crazy but I just left the private plane, promoter paid 100 k and I ain't even stay the whole day.”
“might take time to learn who you are, what you do and how you do it. I will never refer anyone after an initial 30 minute one on one call. I treat every referral like my reputation is on the line, so that kind of trust takes time.”
“Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?”
“Might the safest space be this:
Safe from having to wear your armor.
Safe from having to laugh off your pain.
Safe to laugh at your pain, at yourself.
Safe to know your truth...
Safe to feel...
Safe to disagree...
Not safe from struggling with the conundrums of life, Safe to struggle with them
To sit in the dis-comfort of no-extremes...
Safe to spin through all the chaos...
And feel the shoulder of another traveler...
And know you are not alone.
You are not alone.”
“Might there come a time
When we stand over a grave
And mourn ourselves?
Mourn the past, a previous life?
Shall we weep for the passing of time?
Shall we grieve for unfulfilled dreams?
In my naivety; in my belief
In immortal youth,
I sleep walk through life.
Someone... wake me up.
Please.
Wake me up.”
Source: Slumber
“Might've saved yourself there. The heroine in the book is so dry and salty and apathetic -- about everything." Ben winced. "He probably thought that meant a strong female character." I threw up my hands. "I know, right? A woman can be emotional and vibrant and love things. That doesn't make her weak or inferior--argh! I'm not going to rant about it, it'll just make me upset.”
Source: The Dead Romantics
“Might verse not best confuse itself with fate?”
Source: Complete Poems
“Might was the measure of right.”
“Might we never be the helpers of the great hinderer, Satan! Let us ask that the Lord Jesus would so perfectly tune our spirits to the keynote of His exceeding great love, that all our unconscious influence may breathe only of that love, and help all with whom we come in contact to obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Source: Royal commandments; or, Morning thoughts for the King's servants
“Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?”
“Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"”
“Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why?”
“Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.”
“Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Mightn't it be, Cathy, that, until you've seen the dark, you don't really know the light?”
Source: The Toymakers
“Mighty brawn is no match for a nimble brain.”
Source: Jaya: 9
“Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything that isn't working out perfectly every time.”
“Mighty faith moves mountains.”
“Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.”
“Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.”
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.”
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”
Source: Glory Road
“Mighty LORD please who us your great mercy”
“MIGHTY MAKER HAVE MERCY UPON MAN KIND.”