M Quotes
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“More are taken in by hope than by cunning.”
“More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.”
“More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.”
“More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.”
“More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.”
“More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional monarch. Again, gender mattered. If Albert had lived, it seems clear that he would have resisted that development much more tenaciously, which the gradual emasculation (and feminization) of monarchy was probably more easily accomplished when a woman was on the throne.”
“More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deliberate attempt to understand the thoughts of the great masters of the past, to see in what circumstances or intellectual milieu their ideas were formed, where they took the wrong turning or stopped short on the right track.”
“More backward a country, more its fascination with guns and bombs. That's why you cannot imagine a hero, without a gun in their hands.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“More bad news for the Taliban. Remember how they are promised 72 virgins when they die? Turns out that it's only one 72-year-old virgin.”
“More basses, because you are so far away.”
“More beautiful than marrying the
man you love, Rozalka, is the joy of
loving the man you married.”
Source: The Reluctant Bride
“More beauty implies more romantic desirability, but not necessarily more SUBSTANCE. What determines more substance is how devoted you are to the growth and expansion of your sensuality.”
“More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.”
“More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.”
“More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.”
“More bitta of... insider than outsider as for style of this here example of dubstep.”
“More blood! More blood!”
“More bloodshed followed, as brother fought brother and religion battled religion in the age-old nonsense of settling whose method of worship was the holiest to our Creator, who, for all our murderous efforts, most likely despises the lot of us.”
Source: The Loch
“More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.”
Source: All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts
“More books." His eyes went wide. "You have, like, then books you just said you haven't read."
"Doesn't mean I won't get more books." I smiled at is incredulous expression. "I haven't been able to read a lot lately, but I will, and then I won't be out of anything new to read.”
Source: Onyx
“More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.”
“More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.”
“More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.”
“More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story.”
“More broadly, it is vital for leaders to work across international boundaries to minimize the number of people who feel the need to leave their home countries in the first place. That requires building healthy democracies, fostering peace, and generating prosperity from the ground up. However, success in that endeavor demands a way of looking at the world that recognizes the humanity we share with one another, and the interests that nations have in common. Those who are content to look inward, and who see no higher purpose than to shield themselves from the different, the new, and the unknown, will be of no help.”
Source: Fascism: A Warning
“More broadly, Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong] and I will work to advance the US-Singapore partnership across the board. We're committed to sustaining the dynamism of our economies with the Trans-Pacific Partnership - the highest-standard trade agreement ever - which will support trade and innovation in both our countries.”
“More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.”
“More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.”
“More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.”
“More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.”
“More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.”
“More can be achieved in this world, if good women are empowered to do what they are good at.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“More can I bear than you dare execute.”
“More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.”
“More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.”
Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
“More childish valorous than manly wise.”
Source: Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
“More children are suffering from too much interference than are allowed to develop freely.”
Source: Crooked House
“More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.”
“More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.”
Source: Murder at the manor: The Seven dials mystery, Crooked House, Ordeal by innocence
“More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians
than had died before in all the persecutions.”
Source: Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
“More clothes, more cars, more cash,
Just how much will you consider enough!
Till you put a cork on cocky abundance,
Not felicity but disparity wreaks havoc.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“More clothing? Clo. Clo-theeeeing. Clo-theeing?" Ax said.
"Ax? Dont do that," I said.
"What? Wha wha wha. Tuh."
"That. Where you play with the sounds. Just say what you need to say, and stop."
...
"People are going to think he's weird," Rachel said, sounding exasperated.
"Fortunately, it's the mal on a Saturday morning," I pointed out. "It'll be full of weird people."
"Not this weird," Rachel said. "This could be trouble."
"isn't it a little late for you to admit that I was right and this idea is insane?" I saked her. "Besides, no need to worry. I'll be there."
"Great, then it's sure to be a disaster."
...
"So far so good," Jake said as we headed into the mall.
I rolled my eyes. "Jake? Do me a favor. Don't ever say 'so far, so good.' The only time ayone ever says 'so far, s good' is right before everything blows up in his face."
"So far. So far. Farrrrrr. Faaaar," Ax said, trying out the sounds. "So. Sssso far so so so good."
"Oh, man," I said.
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“More clowns from the darkness: Donald Trump becomes president.”
Source: Life As A Kite
“More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.”
“More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat...”
Source: Herzog
“More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.”
Source: Centuries of Meditations, by Thomas Traherne (1636-1674) Now First Printed Frome the Author
“More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.”
“More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.”
“More connections to more devices means more vulnerabilities.”
“More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.”