M Quotes
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“Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.”
“Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.”
“Most good things come with the risk of something bad.”
Source: Succubus Blues
“Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.”
“Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”
“Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Most good thinking has its origin in fear.”
“Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.”
Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words
“Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light.”
Source: Telling Writing
“Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.”
“Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government.”
“Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.”
“Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.”
“Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.”
“Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.”
“Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.”
“Most governments only want to deploy a peacekeeping force where there is a peace agreement and there is peace to keep. They are very hesitant about putting their men and women in harm's way. It is extremely difficult to get the troops if you do not have the consent of the country where you are deploying.”
“Most governments, not all of them, but most, certainly don't want their citizens using gold. They want them in the currency that they are creating. When they are debasing money, or printing money, they are spending it and they want it to have as much value as possible when they originally spend it. Of course once they spend it, it will lose value for them and everyone else that holds it. But they need demand for their currency. They need as many people as possible holding it and transacting it. The more people that use gold, the harder it makes it.”
“Most gracious host,' said Frodo, 'it was said to me by Elrond Halfelven that I should find friendship upon the way, secret and unlooked for. Certainly I looked for no such friendship as you have shown. To have found it turns evil to great good.”
Source: The Two Towers
“Most granted patents are not patentable. They are results of crafty advocacy, erroneous examination or coulrable drafting.”
Source: FUN IP: Fundementals of Intellectual Property
“Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.”
“Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.”
“Most great artists define a new and unique region of hell.”
Source: Music: What Happened?
“Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.”
“Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.”
“Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.”
“Most great figures in world history are remembered for their compassion. [Martin Luther] King shared this trait with the Ghandis, Mother Teresas, and Mandelas of the world. He also shared this trait with the late Stanley Tookie Williams.”
“Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you know? I'm so interior. I always forget there's such a thing as an exterior wide shot, where you can see where someone is. As opposed to just: how can we show what this person is thinking, in an abstract way that is felt?”
“Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."”
“Most great leaders are also great communicators. Great leaders have learned how to persuade so their objectives can be reached. The most powerful device to persuade is story. Stating facts and figures is not memorable. Emotionally connecting your audience to your idea through story will move them.”
“Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.”
“Most great men are turned off by women who fail to see their greatness.”
“Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.”
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02
“Most great records really start with the drums.”
“Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.”
“Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.”
Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
“Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.”
Source: Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems
“Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.”
Source: The Greengage Summer
“Most guitar players get a name because the band that they're in has become popular. That doesn't mean that they're particularly good, whereas conversely, you've got people like Albert Lee, an incredible player, one of my favourites who's not in a famous band, so he doesn't get into the popularity polls. I have to laugh at some of the people that do get into the popularity polls - some of them are so bad, but they're in a band that's at the top of the hit parade. I think people mix that up.”
“Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again”
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition
“Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.”
“Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.”
“Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.”
“Most guys believe that they're supposed to know how to fix things. This is a responsibility that guys have historically taken upon themselves to compensate for the fact that they never clean the bathroom. A guy can walk into a bathroom containing a colony of commode fungus so advanced that it is registered to vote, but the guy would never dream of cleaning it, because he has to keep himself rested in case a Mechanical Emergency breaks out.”
Source: The World According to Dave Barry
“Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.”
“Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.”