M Quotes
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“Most beautiful things can not be told, but be only felt.”
“Most beautiful treasures are found by grace, not merely by seeking. But seeking is very important. Only when the Ego goes out for seeking can the treasures come in to adorn your soul.”
“Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.”
“Most beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder!”
“Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.”
Source: The History Man: Picador Classic
“Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.”
“Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.”
“Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a rock guitarists time is spent playing rhythm, it's important to learn to do it well .. learning lead should come after you can play solid backup and have the sound of the chords in your head”
“Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How can you make a great - or even an adequate - bouillabaisse if you've never had any? If you don't really understand why people read mysteries - or romances or literary novels or thrillers or whatever - then there's no way in the world you're going to write one that anyone wants to publish. This is the meaning of the well-known expression "Write what you know."”
“Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.”
“Most beliefs survive not because they’re true, but because they’re comfortable.”
“Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“Most believe the Flood of Noah triggered the Ice Age. The rising magmas, lavas, and hot waters associated with continental plate movements would have caused ocean temperatures to rise. Also, fine ash from volcanic eruptions probably lingered in the upper atmosphere in post-Flood years, which, unlike a greenhouse effect, would reduce the sunlight for cooler summers. So the mechanism for such a rare event was in place due to Genesis 6–8. But what happens in an ice age? A lot of water is taken out of the ocean and deposited on land, so the ocean level drops.7 This exposes land bridges. One well-known land bridge was the one that crossed what we call today “the Bering Strait” from Alaska to Russia, so it is easily feasible for animals to have walked from Asia to North and South America.”
Source: A Flood of Evidence: 40 Reasons Noah and the Ark Still Matter
“Most believers aren't in imminent danger of ruining their lives. They're facing a danger that's far greater: wasting them.”
“Most believers learn passively from clergy. However, no matter how good and uplifting this person's teaching, as long as the members are not actively ministering and speaking Christ themselves, growth lacks.”
Source: ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
“Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.”
“Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.”
“Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“Most Bible-readers of a conservative stamp will look askance at deconstructionism. But its proposed model is in fact too close for comfort to many models implicitly adopted within (broadly speaking) the pietist tradition. The church has actually institutionalized and systematized ways of reading the Bible which are strangely similar to some strands of postmodernism. In particular, the church has lived with the gospels virtually all its life, and familiarity has bred a variety of more or less contemptible hermeneutical models. Even sometimes within those circles that claim to take the Bible most seriously—often, in fact, there above all—there is a woeful refusal to do precisely that, particularly with the gospels. The modes of reading and interpretation that have been followed are, in fact, functions of the models of inspiration and authority of scripture that have been held, explicitly or (more often) implicitly within various circles, and which have often made nonsense of any attempt to read the Bible historically. The devout predecessor of deconstructionism is that reading of the text which insists that what the Bible says to me, now, is the be-all and end-all of its meaning; a reading which does not want to know about the intention of the evangelists, the life of the early church, or even about what Jesus was actually like. There are some strange bedfellow in the world of literary epistemology.”
Source: The New Testament and the People of God
“Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.”
Source: The Complete Notes
“Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.”
“Most big freshwater fish, in most parts of the world, have all but disappeared from most places where they used to live. As with arapaima, the main reason is over-harvesting, but there are other factors too. Dams block the migration routes of many fish, so they disappear from the water above the dam — or even altogether, if breeding grounds are cut off. Draining of floodplains, cutting off backwaters, competition from invasive species and pollution also play a part. And sometimes it's just willful slaughter, as was the case with the North American alligator gar in the early 1900s, thanks to the incorrect assumption that killing these predators would boost populations of ‘game’ fish.”
Source: How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling
“Most binds involve metaphors, emotions, feelings, human qualities. Thus, the binds mostly prompt us to be rational, push us to decide one way or another, to declare when something is wrong or good; this reflexive spark is generated by a bind. Reasoning is a secondary process, and exists only to reinforce the initial bind.”
Source: Gregory Bateson Variations: A View of Complex Ideas: Binds, Double Binds, Schismogenesis, Second- and Third-Order Cybernetics, René Girard, and More
“Most biographies and autobiographies are each merely a slightly different packaging of the well-known fact that success rarely comes quickly or easily.”
“Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.”
“Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems.”
“Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around. Living unloved is like clipping a bird’s wings and removing its ability to fly. Not something I want for you. Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly. And if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.”
“Most black families have roots, whether Christian, Muslim or other religions, and that journey is unique for each individual.”
“Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.”
“Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.”
“Most blacks want school vouchers, but most liberals vehemently oppose them. Why? Because what is good for teachers' unions is of more importance to the Left than what is good for blacks. Who, then, is racist? By their own admission, and by the policies they pursue, the answer is the people who call themselves progressive.”
Source: Dennis Prager: Volume I
“Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.”
“Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.”
“Most bloggers who rise above the clutter are quite often prolific -they work hard, not just writing content but networking, engaging in Social Media and more.”
“Most blue-based colors help make the smile appear whiter and have the added benefit of making you look younger... Shimmering nude gloss also works well if bright pops of color are not your thing.”
“Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.”
“Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!”
“Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the "boat kids" was practically a varsity sport.”
“Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.”
“Most books about Stanley Kubrick were written by people who never met him and gathered information from articles written by others who didn't know him either.”
“Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.”
“Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about”
“Most books are bought by women.”
“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses”
“Most books are worthy but they are not practical. Because I am a lover of non-fiction works.”
“Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.”
“Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Most books germinate within you for a long time before they are ready to come out. I wrote several drafts of the novel over many years and when I finally got to the last one, it didn't take much time.”
“Most books of the Bible address the people of God, whether in the Old Testament or the New, and we should read them in that context to fully understand the prophetic words of
1 Corinthians 12:12-27”
Source: Sonnet of A Man [Print Replica]