M Quotes
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“Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.”
“Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.”
“Most new ideas come to us not through pure logic, but through a fusion of memory and imagination. If new ideas were purely a product of rationality, other people would quickly grasp and embrace novel solutions. People’s lack of imagination prevents them from comprehending the significance of an innovative idea.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.”
Source: My Life and Times as a Physicist
“Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.”
“Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change using a common language, without necessarily recognizing those shared values. You just start following your own vector, propelled along by people in your immediate vicinity. And then one day, you look up and realize that all those individual trajectories have turned into a wave.”
“Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.”
“Most new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat.”
“Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.”
“Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.”
“Most New Zealanders want to travel overseas. We're a great travelling nation. It's hard to imagine simply not moving from here, especially as time went on and became cheaper and easier. When I first travelled it was four and a half weeks by sea each way.”
“Most news agencies report based on who is purchasing advertising.”
“Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.”
“most nights
he’s undeserving
of any space
in your mind”
Source: Algedonic
“Most nights, her body was commerce. She traded vacuous affection for survival. Her wounded soul, bandaged by the deceptive nature of the
Zone had served no purpose in aiding her.”
Source: Down and Rising
“Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.”
“Most nights you'll find me swinging in the hammock of the moon, sipping the night black, a few stars as sugar cubes.”
“Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.”
“Most nights, someone ends up in our bed. The kids do knock before entering. We've at least got that part down because mommy and daddy need some space.”
“Most nobility were satiated to the point of apathy.”
Source: The Conjurer
“Most nobodies are somebodies and most somebodies are nobodies somewhere.”
“Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.”
“Most normal people who watch TV or movies and read books for fun— they’ve been sold a bill of pop-culture goods. Profiling never caught any killer.”
Source: Remote: The Six
“Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.”
“most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.”
Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924
“Most notably, perhaps, children with Down syndrome have an extraordinary sweetness of temperament, as if in inheriting an extra chromosome they had acquired a concomitant loss of cruelty and malice (if there is any doubt that genotypes can influence temperament or personality, then a single encounter with a Down child can lay that idea to rest).”
Source: The Gene: An Intimate History
“Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.”
“Most novelists write about twisted lives.”
“Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.”
“Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
“Most NYPD officers generally treated Malcolm X's murder case not as a significant political assassination, but as a neighborhood shooting in the dark ghetto, a casualty from two rival black gangs feuding against each other.”
Source: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
“Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.”
“Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.”
“Most obstacles are inspiration.”
“Most obviously it [Doctor Strange] will introduce a new character who will be in play in the universe, but once you have gotten an audience to buy into a new concept then it's fun to keep, to play-off, or spin-off that concept down the line.”
“Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.”
“Most of a husband’s life is spent in doing research on his wife.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography
“Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.”
“Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.”
“Most of all, community land contributions are both ethical and economically fair because they allow people to keep the fruits of their labour. Land contributions charge people for what they take away from other human beings, not for the value they provide through their labour and their provision of capital goods.”
Source: Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World
“Most of all Ginny--part Schnauzer, part Siberian Husky, part angel from heaven--has taught me the most important lesson in life, that life is not worth living without love, that giving love is more rewarding than getting it, and that the humblest creatures, the least advantaged creatures, are worthy of the greatest outpouring of love. It's a spiritual message, that all life is precious (matters), all life is short, and that, just as human beings have immortal souls, so do animals have immortal souls, because they, too, were created by God. (word in parentheses by poster)”
“Most of all, however, these observances attack and undermine the very spirit of life within the minds of men. They afford to our Romans, from the street sweepers to the consuls, a vague sense of confidence where no confidence is and at the same time a pervasive fear, a fear which neither arouses to action nor calls forth ingenuity, but which paralyzes. They remove from men's shoulders the unremitting obligation to create, moment by moment, their own Rome. They come to us sanctioned by the usage of our ancestors and breathing the security of our childhood; they flatter passivity and console inadequacy”
Source: The ides of March
“Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.”
“Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.”
“Most of all, I fought for Asuna, Sugu, Klein, Liz, Sinon, Agil, Silica, and all the others who waited for my return to the real world.”
Source: Sword Art Online 10: Alicization Running
“Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I have met him, I do not know if he has given me an immortal soul, but only one that was to last me as long as my body lasted. I do not know if when the last page of my book is closed, that will be the end of me.”
Source: Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst
“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you.”
Source: The Wicked King
“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
Source: The Cruel Prince