M Quotes
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“Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."”
“Molecular machines display a key signature or hallmark of design, namely, irreducible complexity. In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause of the system is known by experience or observation, intelligent design or engineering played a role in the origin of the system... We find such systems within living organisms.”
“Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."”
“Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.”
Source: The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life
“Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.”
“Molecules that look near-identical to a specialist chemist lab will be easily distinguished by an ordinary person who smells them.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“molesting the vampire while he's too weak to fight back, iz? jace asked. i'm pretty sure that violates at least one of the accords.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Molitveni jezik jedini je jezik u kojem nema jezičnih zabrana. Kako je već rečeno, on je obuhvatniji od jezika vjere koja je sigurna u samu sebe. U jeziku molitve može se naime reći i to da se ne može vjerovati.”
Source: Memoria passionis: Ein provozierendes Gedächtnis in pluralistischer Gesellschaft
“Molluscs aren’t mathematicians.”
Source: Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
“Molly almost goes out of her way to describe how loving and supportive her parents have always been, emphasizing in particular the fact that, while she was growing up, her mom couldn’t have cared less whether Molly ran or didn’t run, and if she ran, whether she ran well or poorly, as long as she was happy.”
Source: The Comeback Quotient: A Get-Real Guide to Building Mental Fitness in Sport and Life
“Molly and Sylvie had been friends since before either of them really had a concrete idea that they could do unusual things, and had fallen naturally into a gossipy, girlish way of sharing their strange discoveries: Sylvie the places she went when she left herself, Molly the things she saw before they happened. But as they got older, their abilities became a tacit secret, something they realized they couldn't share widely with everyone they knew, binding their friendship further in a kind of collusion.”
Source: When Autumn Leaves
“Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, "Wait a minute.... We're his flunkies." "You, may be," Thomas said, sneering. "I'm his thug. I'm way higher than a flunky." "You are high if you think I'm taking any orders from you," Molly said tartly.”
“Molly Cade, you could be wearing a White Sox shirt, a Yankees thong, and a Packers Cheesehead and I would still want to do you.”
She sighed. “Such a romantic.”
Source: Sparking the Fire
“Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she’s come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.”
Source: Orphan Train
“Molly, Molly, he thought. What a spectacular inconvenience you’ve turned out to be.”
Source: American Witch
“Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at New York University tortured by the neurotic compulsion that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time and that his tumescence means e.g. the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured Third World sorghum farmer.”
“Molly’s ability to break down the barriers between cat and dog owners and to bring both “camps” together was quite remarkable. She could charm and disarm the most avowed felinophile—I think her friendly and placid manner helped in that respect—and the fact that she’d been trained to find their missing cats only added to her charisma.”
Source: Molly the Pet Detective Dog: The true story of one amazing dog who reunites missing cats with their families
“Molly's you stupid bitch. Always Molly's.”
Source: The Golden Fool
“Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.”
“Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.”
“Molly wanted to hug the young girl close, stroke her black hair and tell her that loneliness, while unpleasant, was endurable. Not once, though, did she consider telling the girl that she was wrong for that reassurance would be a lie, wouldn’t it be? She was, after all, her, and in the intervening four decades, the girl’s prescience had been proven right. Loneliness had indeed been the condition—would always be the condition—of Molly’s life, of being misunderstood and neglected by others, even amidst a crowd and friends and, for a few years, a husband.”
Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“Molly wants to know her father's name," Arch said to them. "Why don't you give her a hint?" His first name with 'splatter,'" said Ripkins. And 'matter'," said Blister. Also 'fatter,'" said Ripkins. Likewise 'chatter'," added Blister. And his surname?" Arch asked. It rhymes with 'that again'," said Ripkins. And 'Flanagan," put in Blister. Also, um...'pad a fin'?" offered Ripkins. Arch and Blister looked at him. 'Pannikin!'" he said proudly. Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Molly screamed. "You don't know what you're talking about!”
“Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?”
Source: Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files
“Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12
“Molly was committing dinner. . .”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12
“Molly was relieved that the winter break was over. She dropped her son, Max, at school and then celebrated by going straight to a coffee shop and ordering a mocha grande. She slid into a booth in a back corner, closed her eyes, and inhaled the coffee. Then she sat, both hands on the large, warm cup and smiled. 2020, she’d decided, was going to be the best year ever.”
Source: When We Lost Touch
“Molly wondered this: Could the size of man’s soul be small? She marveled that she would ask herself this question, for the obvious answer was yes. After all, if John’s was infinitely large, then his polar opposite must also surely exist. Her ex-husband’s soul was very small indeed. He was forever spinning his wheels to enlarge his soul, to fill its emptiness, with things. The luxury car, the large house, the high-paying but unimaginative job, the respect of people he didn’t even like. Like so many men, he needed a boy’s toy box of things to feel whole. John was the opposite. He didn’t need anything to feel whole besides a hammock, a beer, and her.”
Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee fantasizing about running their hands through Benedict Cumberbatch's hair. ...Also, I think most people have experienced the agony and the ignominy of unrequited love. I’ve never thought Molly was an idiot. She just really, really loves him.”
“Molly: – You killed people. […] You made them disappear, and didn’t even let the families hold funerals.
Heinrich Werner: – That was the machine, not me.
Molly: – You were part of the machine.”
Source: The Arsonist
“Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.”
Source: Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“Molly: So how do you think of Bryce Hamilton crowd so far? Boys hot enough for you? Bethany: I wouldn't say hot. Most of them seem to have a normal body temperature.”
“Molly: You don't like New Years Eve? Are you insane? It's literally the best holiday ever. You just party all night and it doesn't matter what stupid stuff you do because the year's over and you get a brand new start in the morning.”
“Mollycoddling was the mother's duty; the father's lay elsewhere. As a consequence, his four older children feared and respected him, as they had been taught to do, and the love the professed to feel, had they been asked and had they answered truthfully or even had access to the truth, was of a duty-bound, obligatory kind too, a love issuing from commandment and tradition and the notion of family, not one from the tides of the heart or the unbridled, inexplicable pull of feelings. If painted, that love would take the form of a polite and manicured wash of pleasant colours, not the hurl-and-splatter of impastoed reds.”
Source: The Lives of Others
“Molnen är bara solens förebådar.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Molnen är bara solens förebådar,
Dagens sår är morgondagens krona.
Mer än glädje, smärta ger oss ljus,
Lidande väcker oss till livets värde.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.”
“Molt sovint sembla que les situacions d'un mateix signe s'ajuntin; vull dir que, quan comences a tenir mala sort i comencen a passar-te coses dolentes, et fa l'efecte que tot plegat no s'ha d'acabar mai i que, facis el que facis, qualsevol cosa t'hagi de sortir malament. I, un bon dia, les circumstàncies canvien sense que et puguis explicar com. A partir d'aquell moment, tot comença a rutllar i sembla que el vent et vagi a favor.”
Source: Así es la vida, Carlota
“Molte persone hanno avuto negli ultimi mesi la sensazione di vivere un'apocalisse, ma occorre ricordare che il significato della parola greca apokálypsis è «rivelazione». In questo senso i fatti recenti sono stati un'apocalisse: hanno rivelato la nsotra vulnerabilità, lo smog, le nostre catene di distribuzione, la competenza o incompetenza dei governi, le disparità e i privilegi. Ci hanno mostrato che la salute non è una questione individuale, perché la salute di ogni individuo del pianeta è legata alla salute di ogni altro individuo del pianeta ― e che la salute di tutti dipende a sua volta dalla salute degli ecosistemi della Terra.”
Source: Um tímann og vatnið
“Molten rage poured into me. I hissed at Tamlin, 'If you bring me from here, if you take me from my mate, I will destroy you. I will destroy your court, and everything you hold dear.'
Tamlin's lips thinned. But he said simply, 'You don't know what you're talking about.'
Lucien cringed.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Molti ritengono i libri un modo per evadere dalla realtà, ma quello che lei stringe in mano è ben di più: un'autentica àncora di salvezza. Appena comincia a sfogliare le prime pagine, tutto il resto scompare: lo sfarfallio di gomiti e borse, la donna con il camicione che si rosicchia le unghie, le due ragazzine che ascoltano musica a tutto volume con gli auricolari e persino il tizio che strimpella il violino in fondo al convoglio diffondendo una stridula melodia. / Nonostante gli scossoni del treno, il suo sguardo si concentra sulla pagina allo stesso modo in cui un pattinatore fissa un punto di riferimento per eseguire una piroetta. Quel libro è il punto di riferimento che la tiene ancorata a terra.”
Source: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
“Molti uomini conducono una vita di infelicità repressa e trovano dunque consolante torturare altre creature, perché permette loro di infliggere sofferenze peggiori.”
Source: Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
“Molti vanno in trip con la psicanalisi, finiscono per pensare di essere i messaggi che hanno ricevuto, il contesto che li ha formati, l'educazione familiare, le caratteristiche ereditarie...Tutto questo è profondissima ideologia e inganno del sistema con cui bisogna rompere d'entrata: nessuno di noi ha il diritto di spiegare le proprie scelte o le proprie non scelte, i propri destini in base ai contesti. I contesti possono essere cambiati sempre, socialmente e individualmente, e se noi in primo luogo non affermiamo questo e non lo affermiamo positivamente, costruttivamente, come possiamo anche solo lontanamente pretendere che lo facciano gli altri? Poi possiamo e dobbiamo analizzare opposizioni, contrarietà, contraddizioni, contrapposizioni, e anche conflitti - perché ovviamente i conflitti esistono - , ma a partire da questo, cioè ribaltando la formula di pensiero tradizionale e cercando di ricondurci, di ripartire da questo. Questo approccio non è solo molto più utile e valido, è molto più materialistico e molto più autentico. Per dare un esempio, un'immagine che non è solo metaforica: è difficile negare i vagiti di una bimba o di un bimbo appena nati, i tentativi di chiamare la mamma, di sorridere; è difficile dire che un individuo della specie cominci con una negazione: gli individui della specie cominciano affermandosi, lottando per la vita, cercando la vita. Le spiegazioni biologiche e della scienza medica sono vere, ma non è questo l'aspetto principale. Se si comincia così si finisce per credere che la vita è qualcosa che si consuma, non la realizzazione della nostra esistenza, delle nostre idee; la nostra ragione finisce per essere puramente negativa, come una nobilissima scuola, come quella di Francoforte, ha messo alla base di tutta la sua ricerca. La vita è una cosa che si realizza, non una cosa che si consuma.”
Source: Per una logica affermativa della specie. Corso introduttivo alla logica
“Moltke wies zwar der Eisenbahn große Bedeutung zu, tatsächlich aber hätte seine aufwendige logistische Planung Preußen um ein Haar ins Verderben gestürzt, denn die Nachschubzüge trafen erst ein, als die Schlacht von Königgrätz bereits gewonnen war. In der Zwischenzeit hatten die preußischen Armeen, nicht viel anders als zu Zeiten Friedrichs des Großen, sich selbst versorgen oder für ihre Versorgung bezahlen müssen.”
Source: Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
“Molto del lavoro che va nella creazione di un sito è tutt’altro che creativo e può essere tranquillamente appaltato a macchine, lasciando all’essere umano il compito unico della supervisione del progetto. In un futuro neanche troppo lontano, un sito web potrebbe essere creato non rivolgendosi a una web agency, ma semplicemente rispondendo a un questionario. L’AI, poi, si occuperebbe del resto.”
Source: Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera
“Molto spesso l’attività intellettuale della donna si manifesta in un rimuginare il passato chiedendosi che cosa nella propria o nell'altrui esistenza avrebbe dovuto essere fatto diversamente, oppure nel costruire ossessivamente degli artificiosi nessi causali. Questo atteggiamento mentale viene di solito definito pensiero, mentre in realtà non è altro che una forma inutile e improduttiva di attività intellettuale, una specie di autotortura.”
Source: Animus and Anima: Two Essays
“Molto spesso le persone che ci conoscono pensano erroneamente di noi, che passati gli anni siamo sempre gli stessi. È uno di quegli errori che fanno specialmente ex compagni di scuola e di liceo. Pensano che sei rimasto lo stesso, e invece no, sei cambiato tu e tutta la tua vita”
Source: Inside The Outsider
“Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace.”
Source: The Mom & Pop Store: True Stories from the Heart of America
“Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.”
“Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!”