M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most people in this country, while they might not be happy about things, also are woefully ignorant about many things. Sometimes people can learn, but other times they have to be confronted.”
“Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility.”
“Most people in this world seem to live "in character"; they have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and the three are congruous one with another and true to the roles of their type.”
Source: Tono-Bungay
“Most people, including yourself, apparently, think The Moldau is about a river. It is not. It is a metaphor. It is about the progress of life, from its fragile beginnings through its joys and turbulence and on to its end, its magnificent end.”
Source: Death and Transfiguration
“Most people inhabit a universe that is like French café au lait—fifty per cent skim milk and fifty per cent stale chicory, half psychophysical reality and half conventional verbiage.”
“Most people inherit success and fame; if you have earned it piece by piece you will know how hard it is.”
“most people interpret silence as rejection!”
“Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.”
“Most people just aren't clear-eyed about the rural South. We think that the urban centers are the problem, and the rural areas across the country are idyllic, suffused with good old American values, social values, religious values, moral values. It's what we tell ourselves to keep this political power structure in place, and it's what we see in pop culture, too.”
“Most people just aren't grateful for the lives they have, and it really saddens me. For instance, I said 'hello' to a man the other day, and he didn't even recognize me. It just really saddens me.”
“Most people just do not give a crap. Especially about you. It is not because you're crap. Mostly it is so because they are. So, you're better than them. Yeah! Now, give a crap!”
“Most people just get up and talk because they know you will listen—and you usually do.”
“Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.”
“Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.”
Source: The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
“Most people just live, but an educated person lives, enjoys, and knows why they live.”
“Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the world around them. Whereas artists are always retreating, locking the door, and inventing other worlds.”
“Most people keep their brains between their legs.”
“Most people keep their dreams to themselves, afraid to follow their hearts. Writers make their dreams a reality with each word, each line that flows from their pen.”
“Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.”
“Most people know how to set goals; few know how to achieve them.”
“Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world.”
Source: Witch Crafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic
“Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.”
“Most people know more as they get older:
I give all that the cold shoulder.”
“Most people know my music based on the singles, and think of it as scandalously romantic. There's definitely a romantic vibe, but I often sing things that are very direct. I don't beat around the bush much.”
“Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.”
“Most people know nothing about freedom; only the facsimile of freedom into which they were inculcated.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.”
Source: Utopia: Second Edition
“Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.”
“Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.”
“Most people know that there is this partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft on search.”
“Most people know the physical senses, but a lot of people don’t know the soul’s senses: empathy, trust, intuition, love and harmony”
“Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.”
Source: A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader
“Most people know what to do, but they don't do what they know - because they haven't found their inner drive. Their passion.”
“Most people know who believes in them.”
“Most people know who I am. Then I get the people who don't know who I am and just want to take a picture with a guy with muscles. I get more people that know me than anything.”
“Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway.”
“Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.”
“Most people lead miserable lives because in their attempt to win the rat race, they try to excel in the area for which they don’t have the potential. Hence, they fail not only in achieving success, but end up making their lives miserable as well.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Most people lead their lives like they drive their cars.”
“Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.”
“Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”
“Most people leave work at the end of the day so they can surround themselves with people and talk, but those are both things I do all day anyway! So I tend to seek out peace in my private time.”
“Most people like a little sex in their novels.”
“Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.”
“Most people like me are having a tough time. But it's fine. I don't really think about it as a career. I don't need to have a million bucks, but it keeps me in music and without a day job, so it's working out fine.”
“Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.”
“Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.”
Source: The water beetle
“Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.”
“Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance.”