M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
Source: 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.”
Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more
“Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.”
“Most people would assume Gideon was a pessimist because hello, look at the obvious (everything fucking sucked) but actually he wasn’t, because he enjoyed being alive. He loved being awake. He missed being awake.”
Source: The Atlas Paradox
“Most people would assume, as I do, that the courtroom is a place for the truth, but it's not with our corrupt judges today - and I'm talking about the corrupt ones on the court of appeals.”
“Most people would be excited if I asked them out.
I’m not most people, so ask one of them out.
-Leslie McClunis to Trevor Hampton”
Source: Wildcat
“Most people would call me incompetent, clumsy, flawed..."
"A pearl is a flaw. A diamond is an accident of nature. In all of creation, there's nothing more precious than the unexpected deviation.”
Source: A Flight of Angels
“Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.”
Source: Tenterhooks
“Most people would guess that the sun is fifty or a hundred times brighter than the moon, but it's a half million times brighter - evidence of the amazing capacity of our eyes to adjust to light and dark.”
Source: How to Use Your Eyes
“Most people would have appreciated if I told them they were my entire world, but he looked at me and said it was stupid. And months later I realized it was stupid. Don’t make homes out of people because that leaves us homesick. Don’t make worlds out of people that leaves us without a world; and when we have no world, we have no home, no bed, and sadly, no air.”
“Most people would have felt lonely, suddenly alone in a hospital room, but I didn't. I found the noises strangely comforting. This was my village. The village for sick, broken people like me.”
Source: The Hypnotist's Love Story
“Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.”
“Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.”
“Most people would have probably lost count around seven. This was, Harry knew
from his extensive reading on logic and arithmetic, the largest number that most people
could visually appreciate. Put seven dots on a page, and most people can take a quick
glance and declare, “Seven.” Switch to eight, and the majority of humanity was lost.”
Source: What Happens in London
“Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.”
“Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.”
“Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.”
Source: Going Out
“Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work.”
“Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.”
“Most people would prefer to wait, wait, and wait until the perfect time has come for them to act. There is no such thing as the perfect time.”
Source: The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
“Most people would probably call me a ghost. I am, after all, dead. But I don't think of myself that way. It wasn't so long ago that I was alive, you see. I was only eighteen. I had my whole life in front of me. Now I suppose you could say I have all of eternity before me. I'm not sure exactly what that means yet. I'm told everything's going to be fine. But I have to wonder what I would have done with my life, who I might have been. That's what saddens me most about dying--that I'll never know.”
Source: Remember me
“Most people would rather be boring than be bored.”
“Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.”
“Most people would rather be safe than work at being strong. But being strong is what makes us safe.”
Source: Distilled Thoughts
“Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.”
“Most people would rather believe something that is not true about something than accept the fact that they do not understand a thing about that thing.”
“Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.”
“Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all.”
“Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.”
“Most people would rather eat inside a windowless room in which they have just defecated than eat inside one in which someone else has just farted, even if the room does not have a toilet.”
“Most people would rather give than get affection.”
“Most people would rather live in a comfortable delusion than in an uncomfortable reality.”
“Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.”
“Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there's nothing comparable to taking a relaxing rail journey with your family or good friends.”
“Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.”
“Most people would say 'the deets', but I say 'the tails'. Just another example of innovation.”
“Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.”
“Most people would say they live with an internal angst that they can't always put their finger on. This is because the Internet has changed our very way of being in this world, compelling us to be perpetually "on" - from our cars to our computers, our tablets to our smartphones, our desks to our living rooms or dining tables, our churches to our libraries to our schools.”
“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
“Most people would succeed above themselves.”
“Most people would think that I don't like Floyd Mayweather, but I like Floyd. He understood on how to keep winning, I don't care what anyone says, he kept the passion in his boxing and in his training to win. A lot of people lose that. They get the money and they don't want to train and Mayweather trained the same as when he had no money and persisted to win.”
“Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know we die. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment.”
“Most people would usually rather guess the wrong answer than say that they do not know.”
“Most people wouldn’t be messed up if only their heart were as cold as they show it to be.”
“Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.”
“Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.”
“Most people write me off when they see me.
They do not know my story.
They say I am just an African.
They judge me before they get to know me.
What they do not know is
The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;
The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;
The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;
The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;
The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.
Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.
So you think I am nothing?
Don’t worry about what I am now,
For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.
I will raise my head high wherever I go
Because of my African pride,
And nobody will take that away from me.”
Source: Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
“Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure. Try to become stretchy-if you generally write 8 words, throw a 20 word sentence in there, and a few three-word shorties. If you're generally a 20 word writer, make sure you throw in some threes, fivers and sevens, just to keep the reader from going crosseyed.”
“Most people you have known or will ever know will look upon you with utter disdain. Why? The strength of your spirit unnerves their fiends.”