M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers. But we who would wield power adorn ourselves in flowers to hide the sting of our thorns."
Be sweeter. Be gentler. Smile when you are suffering. Zoya had ignored these lessons, often to her detriment. She was all thorns.”
Source: King of Scars
“Most women think cheating is 'disgusting' … until they fall for a man that likes them back; but isn’t willing to leave his lover for them.”
“Most women think they have to be confident to be sensual, but the truth is you have to be sensual to be confident.”
“Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband”
“Most women want coaching in one particular aspect of life."
"What aspect?"
"Coitus." Emma pumped her fists and rocked her hips. "Also known as fornication, doing it, getting laid, knocking boots, doing the Devil's dance, shagging, screwing, nailing, banging, or doing squat thrusts in the cucumber patch."
Jack swept my hair away and pressed a kiss to the nape of my neck, allowing a wave of heat rippling across my skin. "I have another word," he whispered. "We can try it out tonight.”
Source: To Have and to Heist
“Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.”
“Most women want to possess their man.
Exceptional women want to possess their man's love.
It's the rarest of women who want to search for the meaning of love and life with their man.”
“Most women who are harassed don't come forward, they don't complain because they're skeptical of the process, or they don't think anything is going to come of it if they are found to have been harassed. We know from some very public cases that sexual assault isn't always punished even by the courts in the way that they should be. So, we have got to figure out, how are we going to embed women's experiences in the processes, so that they trust the processes, that there are fair investigations that get to the truth, and then there is appropriate punishment when abuse occurs?”
“Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.”
“Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?”
“Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild care. Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a "leisure gap" between them at home. Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a "second shift" at home.”
“Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.”
“Most women would ask to be given a chance, and when they have that chance or opportunity. They then sexualize themselves. Instead of using their skills, talent, education, or experience. They would use their looks, bodies, and appeal. They will be flirting and being seductive to get the upper hand and to advance themselves. They would be naked to make it. Some would use the opportunity as their chance to be abusive, vile, mean, arrogant, and violent. They will be hurting others for no reason.”
“Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.”
“Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.”
“Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.”
Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others
“Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.”
“Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.”
“Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.”
“Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.”
“Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.”
Source: You learn by living
“Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice.”
“Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.”
Source: Whirligigs
“Most wonderful things are unconscious.”
“Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.”
Source: Notes to Myself
“Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.”
“Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.”
“Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.”
“Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body. It's not healthy for the one with the bad back, bad knees, diabetes. I'm never going to do that.”
“Most workplace governments in the United States are dictatorships, in which bosses govern in ways that are largely unaccountable to those who are governed. They don’t merely govern workers; they dominate them.”
Source: Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives
“Most works are most beautiful without ornament.”
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.”
“Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.”
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
“Most world-historic events - great military battles, political revolutions-are self-consciously historic to the participants living through them. They act knowing that their decisions will be chronicled and dissected for decades or centuries to come. But epidemics create a kind of history from below: they can be world-changing, but the participants are almost inevitably ordinary folk, following their established routines, not thinking for a second about how their actions will be recorded for prosperity. And of course, if they do recognize that they are living through a historical crisis, it's often too late- because, like it or not, the primary way that ordinary people create this distinct genre of history is by dying.”
“Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.”
“Most worries are reruns.”
“Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.”
“Most worthwhile people are disliked by society, you find.”
“Most would live into adulthood, as Patrick had.
(Which meant there was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five…so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.)”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea.”
Source: Misadventurous
“Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.”
Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works
“Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.”
“Most writers agree on the fact that Zen is not to be understood but to be lived; and far from being incompatible with the requirements of everyday life, Zen confers on it its own full revealing value.”
Source: Living Zen
“Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.”
“Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?”
“Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.”
“Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.”
“Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again.”