M Quotes
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“Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.”
“Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to use the body's own inherently positive direction and force.”
“Most traditional Scottish food is designed to use things that are just about to go...off.”
“Most trails can be fairly simple.”
“Most train to be part of the game. The greatest train to be the game: I am the game. Third-and-9, two-minutes left, that's what I train for. I train for moments everyone runs from. I run for them.”
“Most trainers are either into fluffy motivational stuff or have the communication skills of Manmohan Singh”
Source: The Thin Mind Map Book An Introduction
“Most transvestites fancy girls.”
“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”
Source: The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
“Most travelers, like most men, were intrinsically decent. The end result for Iris would have been the same, cruelly the same. But he needn’t have been involved. He was the wrong man to have played Samaritan, and he’d known it, known it there on the road and in every irreversible moment since.”
Source: The Expendable Man
“Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen to people. But we can't be satisfied with that. We have to go to work and see how much additional trouble we can create. Misunderstanding, turmoil, effort put on all the wrong things, and then more misunderstanding.”
“Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.”
Source: Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott
“Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.”
“Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business. Which, sadly, has now become more important than the artist or even the music itself.”
“Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.”
“Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.”
“Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.”
“Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, — all energy, decision, will, — were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, — that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.”
“Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.”
Source: THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS & Other Adventure Stories (7 Action-Packed Titles in One Volume): Gripping Tales of Dangerous Exploits, Mysteries & Espionage Intrigue: The Thirty-Nine Steps, Midwinter, Prester John, A Prince of the Captivity, Salute to Adventurers, The Path of the King...
“Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.”
Source: The Book of Strange New Things
“Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.”
“Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.”
“Most Turkish Kurds want a quiet life and improved economic conditions. But the Kurdish regions of Turkey are mountainous; they're ill-favored climatically; they're poor; and there's a limit to what the government can do there without wasting a lot of resources. Developing the south east may mean decamping a large part of its population. But the thing that will improve the lot of the Kurds more than anything else will be the stabilization of Iraq in the first place, because then the Turkish southeast stops being a dead end. It can become a bridge, with trade flowing in both directions.”
“Most turnarounds don’t turn.”
“Most TV shows are about strong characters and strong actors, and we certainly have those.”
“Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.”
“Most Ukrainians are Christians.”
“Most ultramarathons are a sufferfest. I have concluded that it does not matter who you are or how much training you have completed, everyone suffers at some point during an ultra. What differentiates ultrarunners is how they handle themselves in the low moments.”
Source: Training For Ultra: Ultra Running Stories From the Middle of the Pack
“Most uncomfortable! Did we lose anyone? Head count! Lee Ark, Leetu, and Brunstetter. Three. Should we count the meech egg? No, I think not. Don't drop it, Brunstetter. I'm to take it home and raise it. Ridiculous. Being a parent at my age. Where were we? Oh, yes, three. One o'rant, two kimens, two minor dragons. Eight. A librarian and a diplomat. Ten.”
Source: DragonSpell: A Novel
“Most undercover cops are vastly skilled at compartmentalization. It is a talent as valued as lying. They seal off their real feelings and create imitation emotions. Easily torn down when it's time to show the badge, drag someone downtown, and sit across from him in an interrogation cell and tell him how fucked he is now.”
Source: Sleepless
“Most understand TEC as an abbreviation for the word technology. Here that is only partially true. TEC is an acronym for Technology Enhanced Consciousness.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“Most unexpected was the sadness that followed on the heels of pleasure, like smoke from an extinguished candle.”
Source: The Flamethrowers
“Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.”
Source: Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet
“Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.”
“Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.”
“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.”
“Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.”
Source: Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel
“Most unkind people usually have low self-esteem”
“Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.”
Source: Fit to be Tied: Making Marriage Last a Lifetime
“Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline over herself in the living room, with everyone there, and burned herself alive. Of course, if she hadn't done this, her father and brothers would probably have killed her anyway.”
Source: Infidel
“Most unsuccessful people let their fears and doubts have the final say in how they live their lives.”
“Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.”
Source: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
“Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.”
Source: John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do
“Most US presidents since World War II have led military actions without a declaration of war by Congress, though most, if not all, have properly consulted and sought support from Congress. That is the wise thing to do.”
“Most USA citizens never realize that the systems of public protection are essentially useless until they try to use them. At that point they learn the hard way that government agencies like OSHA, FCC, FDA, police internal affairs, disability, and the like do not work for them.”
“Most USA managers know that it is highly unlikely that they will go to jail for Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violations and willfully ignore the corporate governments legal safety requirements.”
“Most users of social media have experienced catfishing (which cats hate), senseless rejection, being belittled or ignored, outright sadism, or all of the above, and worse.”
Source: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
“Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs”
Source: The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983
“Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.”
Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
“Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.”