M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
“Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.”
“Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.”
“Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.”
“Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.”
“Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.”
“Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.”
Source: Short Shorts
“Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.”
Source: Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography
“Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.”
“Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning in some detail. Most education professionals, who often know a tremendous amount about the classroom, don't know much about the brain. That is one of the reasons why I am so skeptical about applying brain findings to the classroom.”
“Most brands that are called luxury brands today are not true luxury brands. The globalization of fashion and luxury means you now find the same luxury brands in every city. The stores look the same, the products are the same. It is still a very good quality product but it is now readily available to everyone. It's a kind of mass luxury.”
“Most breakthroughs come from small beginnings. Huge, shiny buildings are built in a place that was once a forest. Be willing to take small steps. Be relentless and never feel intimidated. Keep going until those dreams are made manifest.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Most breakups are awful. But with compassion, attention, introspection, and intention they can become transforming, bringing you closer to alignment with your true self while preparing you for the next great adventure.”
Source: Break Up, Wake Up, Move On: From Broken Heart to Open Heart; Prepare for the Partner You’ve Always Longed For
“Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.”
“Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.”
“Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time
Is England. England!”
Source: Poems
“Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis”
“Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.”
“Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.”
“Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.”
“Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not threaten, at least as far as the British at home were concerned. Bestowing freedom upon them seemed therefore purely an act of humanity and will, an achievement that would be to Great Britain's economic detriment, perhaps, but would have few other domestic consequences.”
“Most brown bread is merely white bread with a fake tan.”
“Most budget airlines anywhere in the world are going to leave you dissatisfied after using them.”
“Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, 'Don't abuse me like your parents abuse you!' Then call children's services and tell them you saw this bully crying in the bathroom and you're worried about him. Bam! He just got moved to a foster home.”
“Most burning issues generate far more heat than light.”
“Most business leaders don't consider their own causality in the creation of problems. They fail to see that their company could have avoided breakdowns if they had acted differently. We tend to see problems as having been created by someone else or by the "economy". It's good to be a little introspective from time to time. Think about how your own behavior might have gotten your company into a problem, and how it may help to get you out.”
“Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.”
“Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.”
“Most business owners fail because they get a business started, not through sheer will, but because it was rumored that it is lucrative.”
Source: Your Clients and You
“Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.”
“Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.”
“Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.”
“Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor need not watch his companies' performance like a hawk; but he should give it a good, hard look from time to time.”
“Most businesses fail because business owners take more profits, and give less value.”
Source: Your Clients and You
“Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.”
“Most businesses have the goal of getting as big as possible. Supreme, on the other hand, strives to remain underground and boutique, growing only when they deem it will enhance the brand. As style writer Glenn O’Brien put it, “Supreme is a company that refuses to sell out.” But why? Well, first off, because it wouldn’t be authentic to who they are, what they do, and what they’re into. For instance, when asked why they wouldn’t expand into women’s wear, Jebbia simply replied, “It’s not what we know.” And that’s all they’ve done—manifest an authentic reflection of their core beliefs with unyielding discipline.
Supreme is a reflection of Jebbia’s life experiences and pas- sions. It just happened that his passion for “cool and unusual things for young people” was in harmony with the global youth movement that his brand has come to represent. Supreme continues to succeed on a massive scale because they have the discipline to focus their resources on creating great products rather than over-expanding. Or, as Jebbia puts it, “Staying true to what you do best has played a major role in our longevity. I would like people to see that we’re a small, independent skate company that has done our own thing, in our own way, over many years, and will hopefully continue to do so.”
Source: The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
“Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.”
“Most busy people want to mentor someone great”
“Most calves and fawns will soon die. Only the luckiest and fittest will survive. Therefore either hunters or Mother Nature can take them. The logical harvesting strategy is to take calves or fawns during the fall hunting seasons, before winter can waste them.”
“Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.”
“Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.”
“Most cancers are named for where they start in the body. Many cancers form solid tumors, which are growths of tissue. But there are warning signs Fever, chills
Persistent fatigue, weakness
Bone/joint pain
Unexplained weight loss
Swollen lymph nodes, liver and spleen
Anemia”
“Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.”
Source: My Five Tigers
“Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.”
“Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.”
“Most celebrities’ fame is domestic.”
“Most centers offer a one-program-fits all type of service, which is rather like a department store that sells one-size fits all clothing.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“Most centrally, how did approximately 10,000 people killed in skirmishes between the EIC police and natives in a small portion of the territory over a 20-year period mushroom into 10 million dead, “mass murder on a vast scale” and “a forgotten Holocaust”? Rather than climb down from this ludicrous claim, which the doyen of Congo studies, Jean Stengers, called “absurd” and “polemical,” Hochschild repeats it. His source? The same Jan Vansina whose work, I noted, was based on an erroneous reading of an earlier report (a Harvard study that rejected the report of the Permanent Committee for the Protection of the Natives of 1919 that Hochschild cites in his letter) and whose own work was based on nothing more than “oral traditions.”
Source: The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
“Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.”
Source: Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader