M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught up in a new quest for truth and introspection as they try to figure out whether these dramas of body and soul come from the devil or God. A stunning feat of scholarship and interpretation.”
“Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness.”
Source: The Beach
“Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.”
“Moshup made this island He dragged his toe through the water and cut this land from the mainland." He went on then, with much animation, to relate a fabulous tale of giants and whales and shape-shifting spirits. I let hi speak, because I did not want to vex him, but also because I liked to listen to the story as he told it, with expression and vivid gesture. Of course, I thought it all outlandish. But... it came to me that our story of a burning bush and a parted sea might also seem fabulous, to one not raised up knowing it was true.”
Source: Caleb's Crossing
“Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived and carried it out over 225 years. You experience the challenges, successes, and foibles. Over time, the Foreign Service evolved into a professional cadre serving the public and presidents, often at the peril of their lives. Anyone interested in understanding our diplomacy, what makes it tick, and how it strives to serve the public interest should read this masterful history.”
“Moslem: people who believe suicide is a good way to get laid.”
“Moslems are no less an enemy than the Jews.”
“Mosley is bigger than me. He's fast and his hand speed is still there. He's faster than most of my opponents. He's also preparing hard and he's also good, so we never underestimate our opponent.”
“Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“Mosquito bites Jesus, receives communion.”
“Mosquitoes are humankind's nemesis. They've killed half the humans who ever walked the earth. It always amazes me that people are terrified of tigers and crocodiles and sharks, not to mention imaginary vampires and zombies, forgetting that their deadliest foe is none other than the tiny mosquito.”
Source: The Island of Missing Trees
“Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.”
“Mosquitoes bite you as if they are in some kind of love with you.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.”
Source: Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done
“Mosquitoes took over Florida after hurricane Ian.”
“mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.”
“Mosquitos ruin the safari.”
“Moss covered grotto”
Source: Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, 1788
“Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in the Arctic Circle and in the balmiest tropics; it also grows on the fur of sloths, on the backs of snails, on decaying human bones. ... It is a resurrection engine. A single clump of mosses can lie dormant and dry for forty years at a stretch, and then vault back again into life with a mere soaking of water.”
Source: The Signature of All Things
“Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.”
Source: The Signature of All Things
“Moss should’ve realized the absolute worst way to make sure Sally stayed in the room was to vehemently object to her leaving.
- A Desperate Journey”
Source: A Desperate Journey
“Moss was one of those things that, once one was aware of it, was everywhere. She knew its subspecies from botanical books: bearded moss, bog moss, grizzled emerald, twisted moss. Reindeer moss. Emerald tufted stubble. Toothless moss. Maidenhair. Wooly fringe. It was the earth's pantry, feeding its surroundings. Expansive green mother. Lavender recalled one species in her own garden that, to the touch, felt like her mother's hair. Mother-hair moss. In a floriography book, Lavender had read that moss stood for motherhood, charity. All the more to adore.
She perused the ground, found:
pocket moss
pincushion bristle
wasted-tea moss
stubble-on-a-boy's-chin moss
prickly oracle moss
heart's tussle
Oh, the tales moss told.”
Source: The Apothecary's Garden
“Mossfon subscribed to a Google-like paid search service called World-Check to help identify PEPs ["politically exposed person"] and criminals. It also, not for the first time, sent a letter to its professional clients requesting that they conduct a customer review. There was little follow-up. It was a question of incentives. When scandals sporadically came to light, they always seemed to resolve themselves without undue harm to the firm. Meanwhile, business was booming. In 2005, the firm tripled the number of shell companies it created on behalf of banks. By the end of the year, Mossfon had more than seventy thousand active companies. To do the necessary due diligence on all of them would have been prohibitively expensive, and sometimes impossible. In a business predicated on secrecy, no one wanted to produce the information.”
Source: Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite
“Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.”
Source: Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way
“Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and solutions in search of problems.”
Source: Why Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
“Most "process" philosophy is historicist (e.g., Hegel) and not concerned with "deep time." Maybe Whitehead is an exception. He may be a really important philosopher for all I know. I've never been able to read him.”
“Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.”
“Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.”
“Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their hearts, and they live to the flesh. And this trust they take as justifying faith.”
“Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores.”
“Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have seen psychology grow up, and we've seen the development of neurophysiology and other much more sophisticated science, but only in the recent years have the tools of quantum mechanics been applied to anything representing human scale size.”
“Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.”
Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963
“Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Most accomplishments in life come more easily if you approach them strategically”
Source: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
“Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.”
“Most Achievers I Know Are People Who Have Made A Strong And Deep Dedication to Pursuing A Particular Goal. That Dedication Took A Tremendous Amount Of Effort.”
“Most acting today on television is like a locomotive on a track. Everybody knows what they are doing. The problem of writing today is everyone sounds the same. We speak differently. We think differently. People are different. And that's the beauty of it.”
“Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.”
“Most active investors fail to realize that they are part of the crowd themselves. They are trying to beat the crowd while being the crowd.”
“Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.”
“Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.”
“Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded.”
“Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.”
“Most actors and actresses are performative as people.”
“Most actors and actresses are performative as people. It goes part and parcel with the profession and New York actors who are out of work, or actors anywhere out of work, are manic because you never know when the next job is going to come.”
“Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.”
“Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.”
“Most actors are lucky to ever get a job, period. I never forget that, because I have so many actor friends in L.A., and most of us barely ever work. And those of us that do, it's still only 60 days out of the year that we're actually on camera. It's an absurdly low number.”
“Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.”