M Quotes
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“Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.”
“Most of our battle is asking the right question. Growth always requires the questioning of one’s current position.”
Source: Waldmeer
“Most of our brains are out, but it is good what they did for themselves by leaving this country. They are Cameroon’s reserve for development, for the day that this country shall be free. Your late father was an intelligent man. He was even more than that. He was a sage. He once said to me that the intelligent Bamilekés are those who have sought a better future for themselves and for their families in British Cameroons. He was right. They have not been brainwashed as much as their francophone brothers have. If he were alive today, I am sure he would have judged that the intelligent Cameroonians are those who have sought refuge out of Cameroon.”
“Most of our businesses do succeed, but if something completely fails, then as long as we bow out gracefully and pay off all our debts, and nobody gets hurt, then I don't think people disrespect Virgin for trying. The public appreciates someone having a go; it appreciates the attempt. Who's been a success in life who hasn't failed?”
“Most of our caste in this country, if they only knew it, are Confucian rather than Christian. Belief in ancestors, and tradition, respect for parents, honesty, moderation of conduct, kind treatment of animals and dependents, absence of self-obtrusion, and stoicism in face of pain and death.”
Source: Flowering Wilderness
“Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.”
“Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.”
“Most of our competitor nations around the world have a national education system and America is the only major nation in the world that operates off of local school boards. They receive very little direction from state boards of education or from the nation. So local school boards direct basically what happens and too often they're not willing to track or to do the supervision of the education system that will make it world competitive.”
“Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.”
“Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.”
“Most of our days are filled with routine duties required for life to continue with any sort of sanity. But if we take the time look closely, we might discover that God is using these normal activities to prepare us for future tasks, each duty pointing to His blessing in our lives.”
“Most of our decisions are based on experience. More experience on something equals quick decisions. Less knowledge means fearful judgements.”
“Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.”
“Most of our desires tend to reveal their pettiness a few months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, or even seconds, after they have been fulfilled.”
“Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.”
Source: The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung
“Most of our difficulties or problems are just like helium balloons.”
“Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.”
“Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.”
“Most of our distress begins when we imagine how different life should have been. Entrusting your hopes to something as flimsy as your possibilities is the root of all evil.”
Source: The Tatami Galaxy
“Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.”
“Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“Most of our failures in love involve self-deception. The other was not all that excited about the relationship, but we projected our enthusiasm onto the other and charged ahead. Or the other was hopeful, but we were cynical and attributed that same motivation to the other. We can ignore the needs of an other because they are not impulses we feel; we can ignore warning signs because they do not fit into our vision of what should be.”
Source: Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity
“Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.”
“Most of our fan experiences include many touching moments. There are even fans who have told us that our music saved their lives and that is very powerful to hear and to realize, that our music can make such a profound difference.”
“Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.”
“Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.”
“Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.”
Source: Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works
“Most of our friendships live and die like trailers never knowing that they could be a movie. And the ones that do turn into a movie feel only like a trailer.”
Source: And Comets Pass Away
“Most of our future lies ahead.”
“Most of our girls are accustomed to playing several games in a short time frame. As a coach and as a team, you want to play games. Plus, you might see a different brand of softball than you are accustomed to playing, and that can be beneficial as well.”
“Most of our history, and most of all books on the origin of the Bapedi people, the political structure of the Bapedi people of Sekhukhuneland, and African studies in general were written by settlers.
The settlers gathered information not for the benefit of black people but for the white South African government to enable their government to come up with political and military strategies against black people or for social engineering of black nation in general.
So, given the politicized and racial environment in which all this white writers lived, how are we going to trust that their whiteness and institutional racism did not affected how they made sense of the information or data that they collected and how they recorded them, in order to fix tribes, clans, and black nation in general.”
“Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.”
“Most of our imports come from other countries”
“Most of our journalists today have nothing great to report except poking their noses into other people's family affairs.”
“Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.”
“Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.”
“Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.”
Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison
“Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.”
“Most of our losses began the day that we began neglecting what we have now lost.”
“Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.”
Source: An Unofficial Rose: A Novel
“Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.”
Source: Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley
“Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Most of our mistakes are not made in haste, but rather in the state of extreme carefulness.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
Source: The Optimistic Life
“Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.”
Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters
“Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction.”
“Most of our pain originates and is felt between our ears.”
“Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.”
Source: The Six Rules of Maybe