M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Minimize, or tone down, other compositional elements in order to bring attention to the focal point. Backgrounds can be made lighter or darker in value, crisper or softer in focus, or textured or not textured, to lend support to where you want the eye to go.”
Source: The Tattoo Textbook: Escape the Grind, Do What You Love, and Launch Your Kick-Ass Tattoo Career
“Minimize the fear of caring for someone with dementia, and preserve the caregiver’s sanity with personal, functional tips to understand and cope with the disease.”
Source: Dealing with Early-Onset Alzheimer's: Love, Laughter & Tears
“Minimize the user's memory load by making objects, actions, and options visible. The user should not have to remember information from one part of the dialogue to another. Instructions for use of the system should be visible or easily retrievable whenever appropriate.”
“Minimize your kids' playtime possessions and you may find that they become less selfish and less materialistic, cherish more and take better care of the toys they do have, and have more time for reading, writing, art, and imaginative play. They might spend more time with real live human beings. They might even go outdoors!”
Source: The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
“Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Minimizing can be exhilarating. If you continue decluttering, you just might find a zest for life that you didn’t know existed under all that stuff!”
Source: Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
“Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.”
“Minimizing forces us to confront our stuff, and our stuff forces us to confront ourselves.”
Source: The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
“Minimizing your garage and yard is likely going to be hard work for you. But at the same time it is going to be rewarding because the yard is on display for you (along with everyone else in the neighborhood as well as your guests) to see, and the garage is probably the first place you encounter when you come home.”
Source: The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
“Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.”
“Minimum standards to promote workers' wages, health and safety, to safeguard the community against pollution and degradation, and to ensure basic life goods for all as a basic contract for civil society was between 1945 and the mid-1970s, in fact, a rapidly evolving framework which inhibited the causes and effects of a corporate market system committed to an opposed goal.”
“Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.”
“Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker's employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone from being hired at the wage which would pay his employer to hire him.”
“Minimum wage proponents argue that the minimum wage prevents businesses from paying workers almost nothing. If that were true, then almost all jobs would pay exactly the minimum wage because there is no law requiring employers to pay more. Yet 99 percent of US jobs pay more than the minimum wage.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.”
“Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.”
“Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.”
“Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel”
“Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.”
“Mining lead is alchemically injecting suffering and aggression into the veins of tomorrow.”
Source: San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
“Miniskirts have become quite a fad. They're even some guys wearing them. Don't laugh, if you had thought to of that, you'd not be here now.”
“MINISM #18: We are wired to learn from stories.”
“MINISM #5: If we can green a desert, you can green a street.”
“Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.”
“Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear?
Alex: As an unmuddied lake, Fred. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, Fred.”
“Minister every day. Opportunities are all around you. Look for them. Ask the Lord to help you recognize them. You will find that most consist of small, sincere acts that help others become followers of Jesus Christ.”
“MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.”
“Ministering Christ to others so that Jesus might be reproduced and grow in people is the highest service to both God and man.”
Source: One: Unfolding God’s Eternal Purpose from House to House
“Ministers and merchants love nobody.”
Source: The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts
“Ministers are living books, and books are dead ministers; and yet though dead, they speak. When you cannot hear the one, you may read the other.”
“Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.”
“Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.”
“Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements.”
“Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.”
“Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Original Papers and Letters
“Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.”
“Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.”
“Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.”
Source: The Original Memoirs of Charles G. Finney
“Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.”
“Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented.”
“Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.”
Source: The Salt Cellars
“Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.”
Source: Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV
“Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.”
“Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.”
“Ministry in the twenty-first century will be impacted by the example of the “sons of God.”
Source: We're the sons of God. . .So What?: Believe God About Who You Really Are!
“Ministry is about changing the world by transforming the people within it, not by giving them some sort of emotional sedative.”
“Ministry is about joining God where God can be found.”
Source: Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry
“Ministry is God’s work; we only participate in it. And as God’s work, it can neither be forced nor be prevented with absolute certainty. The wheat will grow right alongside the weeds. So the church’s obsession with human activity and the exertion of energy toward development and maturity turns out to be a scam.”
Source: Youth Beyond the Developmental Lens: Being over Becoming