M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Moscow has been helping the Northern Alliance because "the Taliban was openly supported by Pakistan... until last week, Pakistani servicemen had taken part in war operations on the Taliban side.”
“Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.”
Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
“Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.”
“Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.”
“Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.”
“Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.”
Source: INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY
“Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.”
Source: Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir
“Moscow was an enormous city, but there was nowhere to go in it.”
Source: The First Circle
“Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.”
“Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smoldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment, Moscow is less than twenty miles away. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation.”
“Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.”
“Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!”
“Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.”
“Moses and Aaron overshadowed Pharaoh’s carnal mind, and in the same manner, the first-fruit Sons will influence the five-fold ministry to turn the people over to Christ Jesus when He appears to them.”
Source: Phases of Creation
“Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol.”
“Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.”
“Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me”
“Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the deserts of Sinai, a long way from the comforts of Egypt... Where did the great prophet Elijah go to recover his strength? To the wild. As did John the Baptist, and his cousin, Jesus, Who is led by the Spirit into the wilderness.”
Source: Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
“Moses’ epic achievement is establishing a divinely inspired system for provoking both Abrahamic critical thinking (Hanif ) and channeling it toward restorative growth (Muslim). This system, embodied in a scripture called the Torah (“instruction” or “guidance”), had to be accessible and practical for ordinary people, with structures designed to assist free-thinkers to unleash their individual potential. Not surprisingly, Moses finds the generation of emancipated slaves quite set in their ways despite the dramatic exodus from Egypt. He ultimately concentrates his energies on training a new generation of disciples—“Only the youth among Moses’ people were open to his mes- sage” (10:83).”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
“Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.”
“Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision.”
“Moses had come to know God as Jehovah-shalom, the God of all peace. This is the deepest need of the human heart—to be at peace with God and with oneself. The proof that his heart was at peace was that it was filled with praise…not necessarily for what God had done, but for who God is. He was living out the chief end of man—-to glorify God and enjoy him forever. Psalm 29:11 says, “The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with peace.”
Source: Under His Wings...healing truth for adoptees of all ages
“Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.”
“Moses is our true founding father.”
“Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate from the will of a ruler, to choose whether a man should live by grace of law, or law by grace of man. In a literal sense Moses lives at every council table today.”
“Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.”
Source: The Songs of Distant Earth
“Moses led his people through the wilderness and he wasn't permitted to enter the Promised Land. Jesus was crucified. Mohammad founded a state which soon became an empire, so that Islam from the very beginning is involved with government, with politics. And therefore there is a very clear strong political tradition in Islam.”
“Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."”
“Moses Luzzatto always said to be patient during the hard times, that they would have to endure and make sacrifices while they waited for better times to come. He urged Simone and the other Jewish boys not to provoke the Venetians, saying they should remain separate and focus on their work. He said their traditions were crucial to their identity, just as they were for their fathers before them.”
“Moses made mistakes, Abraham made mistakes, David made mistakes, Elijah made mistakes.”
“Moses probably danced a little, right? You don't part the Red Sea without having some moves.”
“Moses: She definitely knows, and she’s pissed.
Kilian: How pissed?
Moses: She’s out for blood.
Oscar: Oh well, it was going to happen eventually.
Theodore: Easy for you to say. She already hates you.
Oscar: There’s a fine line. And I’m the only one who didn’t pretend to be her friend, so I guess I’ve just taken your place as favourite, pretty boy.
Theodore has left the chat.
Moses: Seriously, O? I’m the one who has to deal with him now.
Elijah: How can you be sure? Add Theo back.
Theodore has joined the chat.
Theodore has left the chat.
Elijah: I swear to fucking god. Add him again, and tell him Oscar is muted.
Theodore has joined the chat.
Oscar has been muted.”
Source: Tourner
“Moses should have said "Let my people go. Please."”
Source: Lamb: A Novel
“Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.”
“Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody.”
“Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.”
“Moses spoke to bushes, the Buddha walked out on his wife and son, Abraham tried to murder one son, and abandoned his servant (Hagar) and other son to die in the desert, Mohammed slept with children, and Jesus Christ preached the Apocalypse. And these are supposedly our moral exemplars!”
Source: The Wasteland: America's Search for Redemption
“Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.”
“Moses’ vision of God began with light; afterwards God spoke to him in a cloud. But when Moses rose higher and became more perfect, he saw God in the darkness.”
Source: The Life of Moses
“Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.”
“Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.”
“Moses was getting to know God as Jehovah-Rohi, his Shepherd. Like a shepherd, God would feed and lead Moses as he led the people of Israel. “I will be with you,” God said earlier. What music that must have been to Moses’ ears! He took this
promise by faith and thus was able to step confidently into his life purpose. “He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young…” –Isaiah 40:11.”
Source: Under His Wings...healing truth for adoptees of all ages
“Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.”
“Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line.”
“Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!”
“Moses, who said to the Israelites, Stop calling me Charlton! Never got a dinner!”
“Moses, who said when the Red Sea parted, What the hell was that? I was just going in for a dip! Never got a dinner!”
“Moses: God or crowd control?!?”
“Moshe Dayan, who donated his eye to CBS. Never got a dinner!”
“Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner!”