M Quotes
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“Malini laughed—a glorious laugh like the sound of a blade unsheathed.”
Source: The Jasmine Throne
“Malinois work never really stopped; you could only redirect it.”
Source: KILLER
“Malkiel often considered telling his father about her. But Elhanan would have taken it badly. He would have cried “What? You, a Jew, with a Muslim woman? I'm sure she hates Israel….” And indeed she did. Leila, a future follower of the PLO, was already anti-Israel. Between her and Malkiel, argument followed endless and sometimes violent argument. Yes, yes, Israel has suffered, she would say; but does that give them the right to make Palestinians suffer?
Malkiel: You know very well it isn't Israel making them suffer! You can blame the Arab governments for their tragedy; why did they exhort them to flee their homes in 1948? And then let them live in refugee camps?
Leila: You Jews did all you could to uproot those people and drive them from their land, and now you blame the Arabs? If you hadn't come along, there would have been no tragedy!
He: We didn't come along, We came back. Easy enough for you to forget!
She: I'm not forgetting anything, but you forget that the Palestinians have been living on that land for centuries, and you abandoned it two thousand years ago!
Malkia lost his temper: Abandoned? You dare say we abandoned the land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? And shown to Moses? And conquered by Joshua? Aren't you ashamed to falsify history? They expelled us from that land, but we never repudiated it, or forgot it, or abandoned it! Since King David there have always been Jews in Jerusalem, and Galilee, and Gaza.
She: Oh yes? And the big cities?
He: The big cities? Do you mean Haifa, Netanya and Tel Aviv? Do you want to tell me who built them? You, maybe? You were a smattering of people in the desert—do you dare deny that?
She: That's the Afrikaner argument in South Africa.
He: I forbid you to compare us to those racists and their apartheid! Racism and Judaism are incompatible! We suffered too much from racism to use it against others.
She: There you go again with your suffering! As if you were the only people who ever knew hardship!”
Source: The Forgotten
“Malkuthians… I’m bleeding. I bleed with you. Malkuthians, I’m hurting. I hurt with you. Malkuthians, I’m struggling. I struggle with you. It’s true, Hod has been destroyed. Malkuth is the last major stronghold still standing. With that said, the outcome of this battle will decide the future of our Union. This is the new Capital of our civilization.” - Autumn Antares from "The Destroyer of Worlds by Steven Seril”
Source: The Destroyer of Worlds: An Answer to Every Question
“Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
Source: On photography
“Mallarmé ya resolvió el asunto: "El mundo existe para convertirse en libro". Todo lo que nos rodea ya es un libro, y la biblioteca es su resumen.”
Source: Conferencia sobre la lluvia
“Malli and her best friend Ezhil would stop at the little cart every day after school. They would buy a piece of Soan Papdi and share it amongst themselves. It became all the sweeter when they could eat it with their best friend”
Source: The Postwoman and Other Stories
“Mallory dropped her head to the steering wheel. "Look, I'm mad at you, okay? This isn't about me. I know my painful memories are relative. My life is good. I'm lucky. This isn't about how poor little Mallory has had it so hard. I'm not falling apart or anything." He stroked a hand down her back. "Of course you're not. You're just holding the steering wheel up with your head for a minute, that's all.”
“Mallory.' He stops me. His expression is solemn. 'It's lonely, chess. You may have a team around you, but when it really comes down to it, you're on your own. You play on your own. You lose and win on your own. You go home, and you're on your own.”
Source: Check & Mate
“Mallory's breath shuddered. "Oh, Claire. Does happily ever after even exist anymore?”
Source: The Fourth Child
“Mallory’s brothers and sister were very much like their parents. Only Mallory seemed to need extra hugs and support. At the same time she knew she’d never get that from her parents or siblings. She’d have to go beyond them for that kind of attention. She wasn’t needy; she was just on another end of the normal range from them. She had learned to hold back from asking for what she needed, afraid it was too much.”
Source: The Year Mrs. Cooper Got Out More: A Great Wharf Novel
“Mallory," he said, sounding raw and staggered and touched beyond words. "God, I was so stupid. So slow. I didn't know what to do with you. I tried to keep my distance but my world doesn't work without you in it." -Ty to Mallory”
“Malmo, with its 280,000 residents, is Sweden's third-largest city. To see a physician, a patient must go to one of two local clinics before they can see a specialist. The clinics have security guards to keep patients from getting unruly as they wait hours to see a doctor. The guards also prevent new patients from entering the clinic when the waiting room is considered full. Uppsala, a city with 200,000 people, has only one specialist in mammography. Sweden's National Cancer Foundation reports that in a few years most Swedish women will not have access to mammography.”
Source: American Contempt for Liberty
“Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.”
“Malnutrition is a pandemic in the USA.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Malnutrition is a plague in the elderly.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Malnutrition is an epidemic in the USA.”
Source: Pandemic Supplements
“Malo toga jeste lako. Ali reći ću vam nešto, gospo Vin, ljubavi mora biti omogućeno da teče u oba smera, jer ako nije, onda bih rekao da to i nije prava ljubav. Onda je to nešto drugo. Možda zaljubljenost? U svakom slučaju, neki od nas skloni su tome da se prebrzo proglase mučenicima. Stojimo po strani i gledamo, misleći da time što ništa ne radimo činimo šta treba. Bojimo se bola, našeg ili tuđeg.”
Source: The Well of Ascension
“Malone had been raised by a lady both Irish and Catholic, in a good bourgeois home in which careless table manners were a sin, much less this storm in his heart.”
Source: Dancer from the Dance
“Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography in general. What has emerged in our time as a dominant form of life writing can trace its lineage back to this extended footnote.”
“Malphas surveyed the women's bodies with utter disgust and sorrow
until he realized Tabitha was still alive. He knelt by her side and cradled her head tenderly. "Tabby... I'm so sorry"
Grimacing she opened her eyes as she labored to breathe. She laughed bitterly, exposing a set of bleeding teeth. "there are some things that sorry doesn't fix, Caleb."
"Shhh, don't speak. I can--"
"you failed us," She went limp in his arms. Her eyes went Dull.
Wincing, Caleb held her close to his heart and stroked her bloody hair. "No, Tabby. I failed myself."
"Most of all, I failed Nick.”
Source: Inferno
“Malta is a sod of a place.”
Source: A BALLOON
“Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.”
“Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence, thus condemning humanity to an indefinite future of misery and poverty. We can now begin to hope and, I believe, know that Malthus was expressing not a law of nature, but merely the limitation then of scientific and social wisdom. The truth or falsity of his prediction will depend now, with the tools we have, on our own actions, now and in the years to come.”
“Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.”
Source: Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays
“Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife”
“MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.”
“Malum Non Vide: See No Evil”
Source: Gone Too Far
“Mam cię, nihilisto! Siedzenie jest właśnie grzechem przeciw duchowi świętemu. Jeno wychodzone myśli są coś warte.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.”
Source: Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
“Mama - Mama - I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.”
Source: A Raisin in the Sun
“Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.”
“Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.”
Source: The Shoemaker's Wife: A Novel
“Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors.”
“Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.”
“Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.”
Source: Beach Music
“Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.”
“Mama always told me that secrets come out after sundown. She said that when the darkness of night crept into the corners of my room oily shadows would unfurl themselves from under my bed, while the crows sleeping in the tree outside my window would flutter to the pane’s sharp edge to tap at the cracks in the casement, and the monster in my closet would sigh, opening its eyes before it scratched at the closet door. I’d only have to be quiet and listen.”
Source: Pocket Full of Teeth
“Mama always told me, be careful what you do, don't go around breaking young girls hearts.”
“Mama anaweza kufa ili mwanawe aishi, anaweza kufunga na kuomba ili mwanawe Mungu amsaidie ashinde mtihani wake, anaweza kulala njaa ili mwanawe ale, anaweza kujitolea vitu vingi au mambo mengi katika maisha yake ili mwanawe aishi vizuri, anaweza kuingia dhambini ili mwanawe asamehewe.”
“Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.”
“Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter)”
“Mama asked, "What is your name?"
"Sulwe," she muttered.
"And what doe sit mean?"
"Star," Sulwe whispered.
"Brightness is not in your skin, my love. Brightness is just who you are. As for beauty," Mama said, rubbing Sulwe's stomach the way she always did to comfort her. "You are beautiful."
Sulwe sighed.
"Well, you are beautiful to me. But you can't rely on what you look like to make you feel beautiful, my sweet. Real beauty comes from your mind and your heart. It begins with how you see yourself, not how others see you. Now, up you get and out you go.”
Source: Sulwe
“Mama bears and strong fathers know that the health and safety of our children is more important than “fitting in” or living without conflict.”
“Mama clutched the wall, her face white with terror. 'Stupid girl!' She shook me by my shoulders. 'You can’t run out like that! Snipers will get you.' Like a long thin finger, my hometown of Srebrenica stretched in the valley between steep hills, clustered along the main road leading in and out of town. The green canopy of the birch tree forest looked like green fairy floss dotted with the burgundy terracotta tile roofs of white rendered houses. The nearby hills were a perfect vantage point for snipers. In the time it took them to shoot once, miss, and correct their target, an innocent bystander would have time to take just one step.” Fragments”
Source: The Cuckoo's Song
“MAMA DESERVES AN ANGEL CAKE, BUT SHE GESTATE”
Source: The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
“Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed...”
Source: Greylands
“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.”
“Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.”