M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through—usually with relief that the choice was made. Sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my decision to come to Forks. But it was still better than wrestling with the alternatives.”
“Making deposits in relationships are as important as making withdrawals.”
Source: The Law Of Reciprocity
“Making Difference: You need to constantly review the way you think as someone said,
“We cannot solve the significant problems we face at the same level of thinking we were when they were created.” Determine to regularly reflect on your life’s journey and how you can better contribute to other people’s lives and to the society.”
“Making dinner for Wayne is either the easiest thing or the hardest thing on the planet, depending on how you look at it. After all, Wayne's famous Eleven are neither difficult to procure nor annoying to prepare.
They are just.
So.
Boring.
Roasted chicken
Plain hamburgers
Steak cooked medium
Pork chops
Eggs scrambled dry
Potatoes, preferably fries, chips, baked, or mashed, and not with anything fancy mixed in
Chili, preferably Hormel canned
Green beans
Carrots
Corn
Iceberg lettuce with ranch dressing
That's it. The sum total of what Wayne will put into his maw. He doesn't even eat fricking PIZZA for chrissakes. Not including condiments, limited to ketchup and yellow mustard and Miracle Whip, and any and all forms of baked goods... when it comes to breads and pastries and desserts he has the palate of a gourmand, no loaf goes untouched, no sweet unexplored. It saves him, only slightly, from being a complete food wasteland. And he has no idea that it is strange to everyone that he will eat apple pie and apple cake and apple charlotte and apple brown Betty and apple dumplings and fritters and muffins and doughnuts and crisp and crumble and buckle, but will not eat AN APPLE.”
Source: Out to Lunch
“Making disciples by going, baptizing, and teaching people the Word of Christ and then enabling them to do the same thing in other people’s lives—this is the plan God has for each of us to impact nations for the glory of Christ”
“Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.”
Source: Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples
“Making Disciples through the Transforming Power of Jesus Christ in the Spirit of Excellence!”
Source: The Mystery of the Blood
“Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.”
“Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.”
“Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something.”
“Making enemies is the skill of fools and stupidity; making friends is the skill of clever people and the wisdom!”
“Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.”
“Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race.”
Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe
“Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.”
“Making every record is a process full of tough times.”
“Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it.”
“Making excuses as to why you cannot do something based on what you don't have, or what hasn't happened yet, only serves to hold you back even further. WAIT FOR NOTHING & NO-ONE.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“Making excuses for yourself only leads to continued stagnation.”
“Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.”
Source: Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life
“Making excuses is one of a host of self-defeating behaviours and mental patterns that can block your success.”
Source: The Ultimate Focus Builder
“Making excuses only leads to continued stagnation.”
“Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.”
“Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.”
“Making fake promises while wearing a fancy dress... that isn't enough. Promises take more work than that.”
Source: Purity
“Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cords. Another case where the length of organs seems to be so important to men.”
Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
“Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.”
“Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.”
“Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.”
Source: Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint
“Making films has never just been a job to me, it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going, it's what I do, it gives life purpose.”
“Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.”
“Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.”
“Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.”
“Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.”
“Making films is like making stuff together as kids.”
“Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.”
“Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.”
“Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.”
“Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.”
“making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.”
Source: Second words: selected critical prose
“Making five friends is the easiest part; retaining one for the five years is the hardest!”
“Making foreplay great again.”
“Making friends is a talent reserved only for clever people; as for fools, they always make enemies!”
“Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a big deal.”
Source: Thorns in the Shadow
“Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."”
“Making fun of anyone's size, height, scarring, anything like that equals dumb.”
“Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.”
“Making fun of guys to get them to perform and prove themselves, that's always going to exist. But we have to equally celebrate them and empower them.”
“Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.”
“Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.”
“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.”
Source: Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)