M Quotes
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“Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.”
“Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.”
“Moonspelled by this abomination, mischievous unto this crimson, inverted within this underworld, I am the rabbit that is plagued with an unknown nightmare.”
“Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.”
“Moony and the jitterbugs swayed and staggered, trying to keep their balance while ducking to avoid an incoming snowman figure.
"This ain't what we signed up for, Cuz," said the bug playing the upright bass.
"That's right. Keep y'all's money. We quit." This bug threw down his pipe and jumped into the water. The rest of his band abandoned their instruments and made a break for it too. They swam for the nearest gravey boat.”
Source: Spelled
“Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe them so much.” “Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers,” said Fred solemnly.”
“mooo," she said... "I mean mmmm," she moaned. Louder this time. Goddamn Dr. Seuss is ruining my sex life.”
Source: Little Earthquakes
“Mooooon!” said the Ogre. “Tranquility …” Then he pointed at the full moon. “Neil Armstrong walked in a sea of Tranquility.” Then he added, “It’s made of cheese. But you have to take off the plastic before you put it on a burger.” Mickey sighed. “What’s his story?” the wraith asked. “He’s chocolate,” Mikey said.”
Source: Everfound
“Moor sonreía a un espejo interior, una sonrisa sin rastros de calidez, pero no era una sonrisa fría; era una sonrisa sin sentido de la decadencia senil, la sonrisa que acompaña a una dentadura postiza, la sonrisa de un hombre envejecido y metido en la solitaria reclusión del exclusivo narcisismo.”
“Moor was a thin young man with blond hair that was habitually somewhat long. He had pale blue eyes and very white skin. There were dark patches under his eyes and two deep lines around the mouth. He looked like a child, and at the same time like a prematurely aged man. His face showed the ravages of the death process, the inroads of decay in flesh cut off from the living charge of contact. Moor was motivated, literally kept alive and moving, by hate, but there was no passion or violence in his hate. Moor's hate was a slow, steady push, weak but infinitely persistent, waiting to take advantage of any weakness in another. The slow drip of Moor's hate had etched the lines of decay in his face. He had aged without experience of life, like a piece of meat rotting on a pantry shelf.”
Source: Queer
“Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months”
“Moore's Law is really a thing about human activity, it's about vision, it's about what you're allowed to believe. Because people are really limited by their beliefs, they limit themselves by what they allow themselves to believe about what is possible.”
“Moore's law is really about economics.”
“Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.”
“Moore's only concession to the Democrats' role-playing is to deny that he is a Democrat, hoping enough Americans were taught by public school teachers that no one will know how to look up Moore's voter registration card. Democrat.”
“Moose are the squirrels of Alaska.”
“Moose Farts!”
Source: Posing for the Alpha
“Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall.”
Source: Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel
“Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.”
“Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.”
“Mor continued through them, a flash of colour and life in this strange cold place.
She wore deepest red, the gossamer and gauze of her sleeveless gown clinging to her breasts and hips, while carefully placed shafts left much of her stomach and back exposed. Her hair was down in rippling waves, and cuffs of solid gold glinted around her wrists. A queen- a queen who bowed to no one, a queen who had faced them all down and triumphed. A queen who owned her body, her life, her destiny, and never apologised for it.”
“Mor patted Azriel on the shoulder as she dodged his outstretched wing. "Relax, Az - no fighting tonight. We promised Rhys."
The lurking shadows vanished entirely as Azriel's head dipped a bit - his night-dark hair sliding over his handsome face as if to shield him from that mercilessly beautiful grin.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Mor rubbed her face. 'You were right about me, though. You were...' Her hand shook as she lowered it. She gnawed on her lip, throat bobbing. Her eyes at last met mine- bright and fearful and anguished. Her voice broke as she said, 'I don't love Azriel.'
I remained perfectly still. Listening.
'No, that's not true, either. I- I do love him. As my family. And sometimes I wonder if it can be... more, but... I do not love him. Not the way he- he feels for me.' The last words were a trembling whisper.
'Have you ever loved him? That way?'
'No.' She wrapped her arms around herself. 'No, I don't... You see...' I'd never seen her at such a loss for words. She closed her eyes, fingers digging into her skin. 'I can't love him like that.'
'Why?'
'Because I prefer females.'
For a heartbeat, only silence rippled through me. 'But- you sleep with males. You slept with Helion...' And had looked terrible the next day. Tortured and not sated.
Not just because of Azriel, but... because it wasn't what she wanted.
'I do find pleasure in them. In both.' Her hands were shaking so fiercely that she gripped herself even tighter. 'But I've known, since I was little more than a child, that I prefer females. That I'm... attracted to them more over males. That I connect with them, care for them more on that soul-deep level But at the Hewn City... All they care about is breeding their bloodlines, making alliances through marriage. Someone like me... If I were to marry where my heart desired, there would be no offspring. My father's bloodline would have ended with me. I knew it- knew that I could never tell them. Ever. People like me... we're reviled by them. Considered selfish, for not being able to pass on the bloodline. So I never breathed a word of it. And then... then my father betrothed me to Eris, and... And it wasn't just the prospect of marriage to him that scared me. No, I knew I could survive his brutality, his cruelty and coldness. I was- I am stronger than him. It was... It was the idea of being bred like a prize mare, of being forced to give up that one part of me...' Her mouth wobbled, and I reached for her hand, prying it off her arm. I squeezed gently as tears began sliding down her flushed face.
'I slept with Cassian because I knew it would mean little to him, too. Because I knew doing it would buy me a shot at freedom. If I had told my parents that I preferred females... You've met my father. He and Beron would have tied me to that marriage bed for Eris. Literally. But sullied... I knew my shot at freedom lay there. And I saw how Azriel looked at me... knew how he felt. And if I'd chosen him...' She shook her head. 'It wouldn't have been fair to him. So I slept with Cassian, and Azriel though I deemed him unsuitable, and then everything happened and...' Her fingers tightened on mine. 'After Azriel found me with that note nailed to my womb... I tried to explain. But he started to confess what he felt, and I panicked, and... and to get him to stop, to keep him from saying he loved me, I just turned and left, and... and I couldn't face explaining it after that. To Az, to the others.'
She loosed a shuddering breath. 'I sleep with males in part because I enjoy it, but... also to keep people from looking too closely.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Mor sagged a bit, jewelry glinting with the movement, and went to take Cassian's arm.
But he'd at last approached Nesta. And as the world began to turn to shadows and wind, I saw Cassian tower over my sister, saw her chin lift defiantly, and heard him growl, 'Hello, Nesta.'
Rhys seemed to halt his winnowing as my sister said, 'So you're alive.'
Cassian bared his teeth in a feral grin, wings flaring slightly. 'Were you hoping otherwise?'
Mor was watching- watching so closely, every muscle tense. She again reached for his arm, but Cassian angled out of reach, not tearing his eyes from Nesta's blazing gaze.
Nesta blurted, 'You didn't come to-' She stopped herself.
The world seemed to go utterly still at that interrupted sentence, nothing and no one more so than Cassian. He scanned her face as if furiously reading some battle report.
Mor just watched as Cassian took Nesta's slim hand in his own, interlacing their fingers. As he folded in his wings and blindly reached his other hand back toward Mor in a silent order to transport them.
Cassian's eyes did not leave Nesta's; nor did hers leave him. There was no warmth, no tenderness on either of their faces. Only that raging intensity, that blend of contempt and understanding and fire.
Rhys began to winnow us again, and just as the dark wind swept in, I heard Cassian say to Nesta, his voice low and rough, 'The next time, Emissary, I'll come say hello.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Mor said quietly, 'Is it so bad- to be his mate? To be a part of our court, our family, tangled history and all?'
I blended the paint in the small dish, the colours swirling together like so many entwined lives. 'No,' I breathed. 'No, it's not.'
I had my answer.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Mor shook her head, still not looking anywhere but at Rhys. 'If Amarantha were alive...' The word slithered through the room, darkening the corners. 'If she were alive and I offered to work with her- even if it was to save us all- how would you feel?'
Never- they had never come this close to discussing what had happened to him.
I approached Rhys's side, brushing my fingers against his. His own curled around mine.
'If Amarantha offered us a slim shot at survival,' Rhys said, his gaze unflinching, 'then I would not give a shit that she made me fuck her for all those years.'
Cassian flinched. The entire room flinched.
'If Amarantha showed up at that door right now,' Rhys snarled, pointing toward the foyer entry, 'and said she could buy us a chance at defeating Hybern, at keeping all f you alive, I would thank the fucking Cauldron.'
Mor shok her head, tears slipping free again. 'You don't mean that.'
'I do.'
Rhys.
But the bond, the bridge between us... it was a howling void. A raging, dark tempest.
Too far- this was pushing them both too far. I tried to catch Cassian's gaze, but he was monitoring them closely, his golden-brown skin unnaturally pale. Azriel's shadows gathered close, half veiling him from view. And Amren-
Amren stepped between Rhys and Mor. They both towered over her.
'I kept this unit from breaking for forty-nine years,' Amren said, eyes flaring bright as lightning. 'I am not going to let you rip it to shreds now.' She faced Mor. 'Working with Keir and Eris is not forgiving them. and when this war is over, I will hunt them down and butcher them with you, if that is what you wish.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Moraalinen huolenpito tulisi ulottaa muiden rotujen lisäksi muihin lajeihin. Spesismi ja rasismi (samoin kuin seksismi) eivät ota huomioon syrjijän ja syrjittyjen yhtäläisyyksiä tai aliarvioivat niitä.”
Source: Eläinten tietoisuus ja oikeudet: Kettutyttöfilosofiaa ja susietiikkaa
“Moradi hated using the word "West." He preferred just saying the US or if he wanted to bundle the entire Western Hemisphere, then he would go by the book and say the Occident. He also didn't label Iran as a "Middle Eastern" country. He would always say things like "with Iran being in West Asia." It was a tactical move. After all Iranians weren't Arabs, and this way he aligned Iran with the "West.”
Source: Tajrish
“Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.”
“Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.”
Source: The cause
“Moral and educational suasion breathes the assumption that racist minds must be changed before racist policy, ignoring history that says otherwise. Look at the soaring White support for desegregated schools and neighborhoods decades after the policies changed in the 1950s and 1960s. Look at the soaring White support for interracial marriage decades after the policy changed in 1967. Look at the soaring support for Obamacare after its passage in 2010. Racist policymakers drum up fear of antiracist policies through racist ideas, knowing if the policies are implemented, the fears they circulate will never come to pass. Once the fears do not come to pass, people will let down their guards as they enjoy the benefits. Once they clearly benefit, most Americans will support and become the defenders of the antiracist policies they once feared.”
Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“Moral authority arises from character and actions, not position.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.”
“Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.”
“Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader is principle centered, he or she will develop moral authority. If the follower is principle centered, he or she will follow the leader. In this sense, both leaders and followers are followers. Why? They follow truth. They follow natural law. They follow principles. They follow a common, agreed-upon vision. They share values. They grow to trust one another.”
“Moral authority is earned, not given. This is why formal authorities are threatened by moral authorities without position.”
“Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.”
Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
“Moral bankruptcy occurs when development supersedes the cultural practices of a great nation of people.”
“Moral beauty existed as clearly as any other form of beauty and perhaps that was where we could find the God who was so vividly, and sometimes bizarrely, described in our noisy religious explanations. It was an intriguing thought, as it meant that a concert could be a spiritual experience, a secular painting a religious icon, a beguiling face a passing angel.”
Source: The Lost Art of Gratitude
“Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage.”
“Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.”
Source: Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good
“Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.”
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.”
Source: Minority Report
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.”
Source: Minority Report
“Moral certainty is intellectual immorality”
“Moral certainty is never more than probability.”
“Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.”
“Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves”
“Moral character is the DNA of success and happiness.”
Source: Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others