M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most of us who got into film industry in early 2000s weren't prepared for the constant vigilance that being a celebrity requires, and there's no school for learning how to handle it well or gracefully. It's a hard thing to figure out. A lot of people don't deal with it well because they're either too paranoid or they're doing things they probably shouldn't be doing in public.”
“Most of us who have been lucky enough to hear, read and see the Dalai Lama, often come away thinking, "What a kind, inspiring and golden human being!" That is true, but I think it does him an injustice.”
“Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“Most of us who were opposed to the war, especially in the early '60's - the war we were opposed to was the war on South Vietnam which destroyed South Vietnam's rural society. The South was devastated. But now anyone who opposed this atrocity is regarded as having defended North Vietnam. And that's part of the effort to present the war as if it were a war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam with the United States helping the South. Of course it's fabrication. But it's "official truth" now.”
“Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.”
“Most of us will be remembered, in work and in life, for just a few words or deeds that made a difference to others. The way we choose to say good-bye is likely to be one of the ways we are remembered.”
“Most of us will find love; we shall also encounter opponents, rivals, and outright enemies, an evil nemesis worthy of unqualified hatred. Occasionally we act as the antagonist on our own casting card. Our own internal voice(s) can torture us with feelings of insanity. For example, before filling her overcoat pockets with stones and drowning herself in a river, English writer Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) left a final note to her husband disclosing, ‘I feel certain that I am going mad again.’ Her last note also stated that she feared that she would not recover from her illness, she could not endure another depressive episode, and she was hearing voices.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day - the erotic mind is not very politically correct.”
“Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.”
“Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.”
Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
“Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.”
“Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.”
Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem
“Most of us would agree that the important thing about Jesus is not his supposed miraculous birth or the claim that he was resurrected from death, but rather how he lived. The power of his love, the penetrating simplicity of his teachings, and the force of his example of service on behalf of the disenfranchised and downtrodden are what is crucial.”
Source: A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism
“Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us.”
“Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."”
Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance
“Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.”
“Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.”
Source: Whole child, whole parent
“Most of us would eventually lose count if we were to literally count our blessings.”
“Most of us would give anything for the chance to play just one day of MLB baseball—especially for our favorite team. Well, there once was a pitcher named Bock Baker who actually got two opportunities to pitch in the big leagues. He took the mound for Cleveland against the Chicago White Sox in his big league debut. How did he fare? Well, he pitched a complete game. Pretty spectacular, right? Well, sure—but it depends on your perspective. He gave up 23 hits and 13 runs. Baker never pitched for Cleveland again, but the Philadelphia Athletics gave him a second big league start that same year (1901). He lasted juts six innings, and lost again after giving up 11 runs—and then his career was over.”
“Most of us would kill ourselves if we were as talent-free as Elizabeth Hurley.”
“Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.”
Source: A Dream Deferred: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal
“Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.”
“Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children”
Source: Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling
“Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.”
Source: Radical Parenting: Seven Steps to a Functional Family in a Dysfunctional World
“Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.”
“Most of us would speak to the most casual acquaintance with more apparent respect than to our own children, or the children with whom we work in the classroom. Why? Because we do not have power over the near-stranger; because we have no ego-involvement with that person…”
“most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.”
“Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from the Daily Mail or some other lowest-common denominator. That's not the same thing as frequenting a site like the white supremacist Stormfront.”
“Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words—like 'aggression' and even 'violence'. Real strength is neither male nor female; but it is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that a human being can possess.”
Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
“Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.”
“Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.”
“Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.”
Source: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
“Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.”
“Most of us, if we are truly honest with ourselves, have an ever-evolving and ever-growing list of what we think we must change in order to be at peace or to be happy.”
“Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.”
Source: The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century
“Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks. We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night.”
“Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.”
“Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.”
“Most of us, when asked to gauge the richness of our lives, think immediately of people. Those who have cried with us, laughed with us, and shaped who we are.”
Source: Making Life Rich Without Any Money
“Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.”
“Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.”
“Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery.”
“Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.”
“Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it.”
“Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?”
“Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything, with no special exemptions or amplifications for your benefit- given variety by the input of chance. Everything that you as a human being consider cosmically important is an accident.”
“Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."”
“Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Most of what Hollywood puts out is crap anyway.”