M Quotes
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“Misfortunes make us wise.”
Source: The Borrowers Afield
“Misfortunes never come singly.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.”
Source: The Art Of Love
“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“Misfortunes should always be expected.”
“Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.”
“Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.”
“Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.”
“Misgive that you may not mistake.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley
“misgivings, n.
Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us.
"There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do not need citing; 2) excessive ambition, such as Athens' attempted conquest of Sicily in the Peloponnesian War, Philip II's of England via the Armada, Germany's twice-attempted rule of Europe by a self-conceived master race, Japan's bid for an empire of Asia; 3) incompetence or decadence, as in the case of the late Roman empire, the last Romanovs and the last imperial dynasty of China; and finally 4) folly or perversity.”
Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
“Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.”
“Misguided action proves to only damage us more than it offers any vengeance toward our enemies.”
“Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.”
Source: Healology
“Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.”
“Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?”
“Misha, my best friend who got me into bed and fucked me with a lie.”
Source: Punk 57
“Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.”
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”
Source: Fireside Travels
“Mishearing is how I love the world.”
Source: The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
“Misi la divisa e mi avviai al reparto rosa, sentendomi così patetico da ricordarmi che fin da piccolo volevo fare l'assassino per uccidere tutti, ma oggi, alla fine, mi ritrovai scrittore per non uccidere me stesso.”
Source: Nella terra del sole che sboccia
“Misi yang dimaksud adalah ketika kalian melakukan sesuatu hal positif dengan kualitas sangat tinggi dan di saat yang sama menikmati prosesnya. Bila kalian merasakan sangat baik melakukan suatu hal dengan usaha yang minimum, mungkin itu adalah misi hidup yang diberikan Tuhan. Carilah misi kalian masing-masing. Mungkin misi kalian adalah belajar Al-Quran, mungkin menjadi orator, mungkin membaca puisi, mungkin menulis, mungkin apa saja. Temukan dan semoga kalian menjadi orang yang berbahagia.”
Source: Negeri 5 Menara
“Misinformation and disinformation about ritual abuse and mind control trauma and psychotherapy to treat such trauma appear in both paper and electronic media, but are particularly abundant on the Internet on websites of individuals and organizations, bookseller reviews, blogs, newsletters, online encyclopedias, social networking sites, and e-group listservs.”
“Misinformation destroys trust. When you destroy trust, you destroy the bonds that hold society together.”
Source: The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis
“Misinformation is a virus unto itself.”
“Misinformation is the new weapon of mass distraction. Opportunists are using it to start a war or to gain support. Most people are killed, violated, arrested, assaulted, accused, hated, cancelled, sanctioned because of misinformation. Choose to validate everything you read or hear. Choose to scrutinize everything you read and hear so that you don’t become a victim of misinformation .”
“Misinformation is the side effect of being uninformed.”
“Misinformation rules when crucial information is suppressed.”
Source: Climate and Energy Decoded
“Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.”
“Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.”
“Miskin bukan berarti malas; seperti jerat lumpur menenggelamkan kaki, kadang ia hanyalah warisan beban masa lalu.”
“Mislabeled the sign,” a cocky voice called from the door. “Should read ‘Doggie Daycare’ with the number of pups packed into this place.”
Source: Forged Alliances
“Mislaid flame of tender emotions
Rekindled.
Together we live to the point of tears,
I wouldn’t want it any other way.”
“Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.”
Source: The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others
“Misli su mi zvijezde koje ne mogu utjerati u zviježđa.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Misli su uvek nečije. Moje su tvoje. Osvrćem se oko sebe. Gde si? Grad mi je pred očima i iza leđa, pulsira, tmulo, tmasto. Ukorenjeni ritam večne pretnje, svireposti koja ne bira kada će da udari.”
“Mislila sam da ću umaknuti tamnomu oblaku uspomena - zato sam se prijavila na ovo putovanje. Sada vidim da svijet nosimo sa sobom kamo god da krenemo. Znam da se moramo tome oduprijeti. Je li to moguće? Nadam se jest - ne, nadam se da jest! Svaki je čovjek svijet za sebe, čitav svemir, zapravo.”
Source: Voyage to Alpha Centauri
“Mislim da sam u tom trenutku bio spreman umrijeti u njezinim rukama i da bih prije smrti, spokojne duše, pomislio da je sve vrijedilo podnijeti samo zbog ovoga, i da je ovo bilo ono za što smo svi mi živjeli.”
Source: Beskrajno ljeto: smaknuće Brandona Brycea
“Mislim da samo veliki ljudi mogu osjećati veliku tugu, da su patnja i tuga bezuvjetno povezani sa širinom savjesti, čistotom duše, dubinom srca.”
Source: Amanet
“Mislim da smo završili", rekao je. "Mislim da si je uhvatio. Pogledaj. Šta misliš?"
Ali nisam otvorio oči. Hteo sam da ih još malo držim zatvorene. Činilo mi se da tako treba da postupim.
"Onda?", rekao je, "Da li gledaš?"
Oči su mi i dalje bile sklopljene. Bio sam u svojoj kući. Znao sam. Ali, nisam se osećao kao da sam negde unutra."
"To je stvarno nešto", rekoh.”
“Mislim da svatko od nas ima sposobnost da ostvari vlastite želje. Samo moramo naći hrabrosti za to.”
Source: The Life List
“Mismatches destroy us all, even the most tender ones, and most never have the courage to break someone else's heart to follow their own.”
Source: Three Fallen Women
“Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.”
“Misogyny insists that a woman's appearance is of paramount value.”
Source: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“Misogyny is a weak man’s crutch.”
“Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.”
“Misogyny is not just hatred enacted on women, but the means of defending stories about what women are in order to entrench male dominance.”
Source: Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
“Misogyny is the death of the heart.”
Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television
“Misogyny now has become so normalized,” says Paul Roberts, the Impulse Society author. “We can’t even see the absurdity and the inequity of it, it’s so pervasive. When the male gaze was digitized, it was almost as if it was internalized. With smartphones and social media, girls had the means of producing the male gaze themselves, and it was as if they turned it on themselves willingly in order to compete in a marketplace in which sex was the main selling point.
And the social media companies aren't going to do anything about it, as long as it's driving traffic.”
Source: American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers