M Quotes
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“Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States
“Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!”
Source: More Than Human
“Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.”
“Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.”
“Morbid attention is when we focus only on the shortcomings that come with aging, which are inevitable, and think that everything that is wrong is a result of aging.”
“Mordecai allowed a smile to play across his face. “I have little doubt this ploy will try your patience. You must present Sir Percival as a gallant knight well-versed in chivalry and a favored champion in the tourneys. Perhaps a bit of poetry would be in order as well.”
Dante rolled his eyes and sighed. “I shall be the very picture of chivalrous drivel.”
Source: The Dark Knight
“Mordeen," he said, "I love the child." His voice swelled and he spoke loudly. "Mordeen, I love our child." And he raised his head and cried in triumph, "Mordeen, I love my son.”
“Mordicia was a good man :-:”
“Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.”
“Mordre wol out, that se we day by day.”
“Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“Mordred ever seemed to burn.”
Source: The Guinevere Deception
“More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'”
“More about Howl? Sophie thought desperately. I have to blacken his name! Her mind was such a blank that for a second it actually seemed to her that Howl had no faults at all. How stupid! 'Well, he's fickle, careless, selfish, and hysterical,' she said. 'Half the time I think he doesn't care what happens to anyone as long as he's alright--but then I find out how awfully kind he's been to someone. Then I think he's kind just when it suits him--only then I find out he undercharges poor people. I don't know, Your Majesty. He's a mess.”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
“More action packed than a Cardiff pub with Anne Robinson.”
“More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.”
“More advanced organizations understand that the effective management of people is the business”
Source: Problem, RIsk, and Opportunity Enterprise Management: How to use language, data, information, and analytics that easily align with the ways we think
“More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.”
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom #1: Mister Monday
“More always means worse.”
“More American companies are getting bought by foreign firms or they`re becoming foreign firms or they`re outsourcing. Right now the tax code says if you want to make something in another country and re-import it back into America, go ahead and do that. We don`t want to incentivize that.”
“More American young people can tell you where an island that the 'Survivor' TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality.”
“More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare”
“More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.”
“More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.”
“More Americans, and I have my own anecdotes of people that have a friend that never would've had a gun, thought about, and now is thinking about it.”
“More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.”
“More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.”
“More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation, interpretation, and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form.”
“More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.”
“More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us.”
Source: George Washington Carver in his own words
“More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.”
“More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.”
“More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.”
“More and more commonly, the strongest public sentiment is one of profound loathing - subversive loathing of 'the hegemonic discourse,' Western loathing of the East, Eastern loathing of the West, secular loathing of believers, religious loathing of the secular. Sweeping, unmitigated loathing surges like vomit from the depths of this or that misery. Such extreme loathing is a component of fanaticism in all its guises.”
Source: שלום לקנאים
“More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.”
Source: We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World
“More and more Congressmen now stay in Washington all year-round because they can't stay at home under the laws they've passed.”
“More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states.”
“More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.”
“More and more details coming out now about spoiled rich kid Osama bin Laden. Time reports this week he was one of 52 kids. Mother must be exhausted. This guy inherited $80 million at age 13 and has since expanded it to $300 million through construction, smart investments and gas and oil investments. This way, he can use the money in his war against capitalism.”
“More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.”
“More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.”
“More and more facts coming out about Osama bin Laden. You know, he never sleeps in the same place two nights in a row, just like Clinton.”
“More and more families today are sending both parents into the workforce - t's become the norm, it's what we now expect. The overwhelming majority of us do it because we think it will make our families more secure. But that's not how things have worked out.”
“More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.”
“More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“More and more, I began to see the characters of these silly tales walk out of the pages and amble into the busy streets. They sat in cafes, and checked their phones, and spoke in different languages, and held plastic signs, and argued in meetings, and waited for the light to turn, and stepped back onto the curb.”
Source: THE GIANT
“More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.”
Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
“more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.”
Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.”
Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel