M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.”
“Making others' lives easier is my definition of success.”
“Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“Making our way back. To, each other, ourselves, the soul, love - Soul Mission”
Source: Coming Home
“Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.”
Source: Uglies
“Making ourselves the solution, rather than part of the problem is our greatest challenge.”
Source: Inspiring the Next Young Environmental Leader: Kids Teaching Kids - Addressing Our Environmental Crisis
“Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.”
Source: Strictly personal
“Making-out is one thing that won’t change even if civilization fizzles and humanity is reduced to two people. So each time Jack and I kiss, it’s as if we’re flipping off the jerks who destroyed our planet, as if we’re screaming at the top of our lungs…
We know your secret.
And we won’t be made invisible.”
Source: The Vestige
“Making pasta, cooking pasta and baking bread are two essential ideas to create a little bit of excitement, and you learn the basic, and then evolve it. Flavor the bread, flavor the pasta, go to a fish, go to a meat sauce and take it to another level.”
“Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn’t the same thing as easy.”
Source: Questions for a Soldier
“Making peace isn’t the same as being at peace.”
Source: My Last Week
“Making peace with food is possible.”
Source: 12 Tiny Things: Simple Ways to Live a More Intentional Life
“Making peace with one's truth is to live in one’s own moment, moving passionately forward in joy.”
“Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.”
“Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.”
“Making people change because you can’t deal with who they are isn’t how it’s supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.”
Source: Lock In
“Making people happy makes me feel good. If anything, it gives me more energy for the people I care about.”
Source: Fangirl
“Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.”
“Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.”
“Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.”
“Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.”
“Making people laugh is the greatest experience.”
“Making people laugh is the hardest work in the world. Look how easy it is to make them cry?”
Source: The Cowardly Lion of Oz
“Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.”
“Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.”
“Making people laugh was automatic.”
“Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.”
“Making photographs that dealt with the understanding of who I am as a gay man and dealt with the process of accepting that, and also accepting what I'm into sexually, what sexually arouses me. So I was making these images not necessarily knowing what they were about, but just putting it out there - that mode of thinking or consideration of my own desires, and also the much larger conversation around images that deal with ideas of sexuality and how those images are distributed and then accepted or understood by whoever is viewing those images.”
“Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do and how to use the camera successfully. Doing exercises for example if you try to find out things that the camera can do that the eye cannot do. So that you have a tool that will do what you need to be done. But then once you have mastered the craft the most important thing is to determine why you want to shoot pictures and what you want to shoot pictures of. That's where the thematic issue comes to life.”
“Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application of what you've learned. My absolute conviction is that if you are working reasonably well the only important thing is to keep shooting...it doesn't matter whether you are making money or not. Keep working, because as you go through the process of working things begin to happen.”
“Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.”
“Making popcorn is a reminder of the very valuable fact that very similar people who are given the very same opportunity in the very same environment at the very same time will not succeed or mature at the very same time, if they will manage to succeed or mature.”
“Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list”
“Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.”
“Making products we sell around the world, stamped with three proud words, 'Made in the USA!'”
“Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.”
“Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.”
Source: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
“Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.”
“Making promises you can't keep is worse than making no promises at all.”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“Making prostitution legalized gives our society a message that sex is not sacred/private between two adults - that sex can be bought and sold just like any object. But prostitutes are people, not objects to be consumed, used and discarded like trash when they are no longer doing what each client/trafficker wants.”
“Making reality real is art's responsibility.”
Source: On Writing
“Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.”
Source: On Writing
“Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some of the massive disruption that technology is causing is so exciting, the way that people can share creativity now.”
“Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.”
“Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.”
“Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking”
“Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.”
“Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.”
“Making room in our heart for our own pain, we make room in our heart for theirs.”
Source: Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening
“Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.”