M Quotes
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“Mammoth columns were rooted in the flagstones and the sawdust. Arches flew in broad hoops from capital to capital; crossing in diagonals, they groined the barrel-vaults that hung dimly above the smoke. The place should have been lit by pine-torches in stanchions. It was beginning to change, turning now, under my clouding glance, into the scenery for some terrible Germanic saga, where snow vanished under the breath of dragons whose red-hot blood thawed sword-blades like icicles. It was a place for battle-axes and bloodshed and the last pages of the Nibelungenlied when the capital of Hunland is in flames and everybody in the castle hacked to bits. Things grew quickly darker and more fluid; the echo, the splash, the boom and the road of fast currents sunk this beer-hall under the Rhine-bed; it became a cavern full of more dragons, misshapen guardians of gross treasure; or the fearful abode, perhaps, where Beowulf, after tearing the Grendel's arm out of its socket, tracked him over the snow by the bloodstains and, reaching the mere's edge, dived in to swim many fathoms down and slay his loathsome water-hag of a mother in darkening spirals of gore.”
Source: A Time of Gifts
“Mammoth is an incredible community and world-class attraction, ... Were committed to creating a vibrant living experience that matches the natural, majestic beauty of the area. 80/50 Mammoth will make the new Village at Mammoth one of the hottest year-round playgrounds in North America. For the first time, Mammoth will be a place where outdoor enthusiasts can experience the unparalleled amenities and services of a five-star resort hotel combined with privileges of owning a prestigious second home.”
“Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .”
“Mammy was soon asleep, leaving Laila with dueling emotions: reassured that Mammy meant to live on, stung that she was not the reason. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Mamo, the Italian word for marble, comes from the Greek marmairein, meaning “to shine”. Geologically speaking, marble is limestone transformed by the heat and pressure of the earth’s crust into a medium-hard, crystalline rock. Cold to the touch, marble yields willingly to the sculptor’s chisel. Over time, white statuary acquires an ivory patina remarkably evocative of the warmth of human flesh.”
Source: Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine
“Mamoru, each & every one of us have stars in our hearts, & you know that the star is shining when you feel that heat…-Usagi/Sailor Moon”
“Mamoru, please say it once more. -Usagi Again? But I've said it 50 times! -Mamoru Please? One more time? -Usagi Okay, for the last time. Marry me, Usagi. -Mamoru”
“Mamá, do you know what happens to me when I read? All those hours that I sit, as you sometimes say, ‘ruining my eyes’? If I do ruin them, it would be worth it, for I do not need eyes where I go then. I travel, Mamá. I travel all over the world, and sometimes out of this whole universe, and I go back in time and again forward. I do not know I am here, and I do not care.”
Source: Pocho
“Mamá
En la noche con una vela rezando te
ví
y sé que tu oración sacra es para
mí,
porque la tristeza en mi alma
una herida profunda escarba,
porque de encono estoy rodeada
y la oscuridad me ha cautivado.
Tus sacras oraciones
llaman la luz para mí.
Tus sacras oraciones
¿cuándo las merecí?
Tus sacras oraciones
en mi seca alma
entran como rocío.
Y me duele,
porque mi noche no tiene día.”
Source: Tiempo cerrado
“Mamá, ¿es que son demonios? ¿Es la persecución salvaje? ¿Monstruos del infierno? ¡Mamá, mamá!
Silencio, silencio, niños. No son demonios, no son diablos... Peor.
Son seres humanos”
Source: Wieża Jaskółki
“Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn’t know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it.”
Source: Dominicana
“Mamá. I have spent my entire life doing what is right. I went to church every Sunday, I worked in the fields, I got straight A's in school, I went to college and commuted home to save on bills and preserve my reputation, and I even raised enough money to buy the farm so I could take care of the family. But now, I want some freedom because I've earned it. I don't want to be courted and married to some man I don't even know if I'm compatible with. I don't even know if I want to get married. Ever. It's fine if Blanca feels comfortable preserving this tradition--- but I don't. Not even if it makes you happy."
Mamá's eyes bugged, and she yelled at her eldest daughter. "You will not disrespect me in my house!"
Carolina laughed. "Well, it's my house, actually. But that's fine. I don't need it."
Blanca's jaw dropped. "Cari! Stop."
"No. I should've done this years ago." Carolina turned and walked toward the living room.
"Carolina! Get back here at once!" her mom called out, but she didn't respond.
Enrique was sitting at the dining room table, wringing his hands, his forehead wrinkled, his fists clenched.
Her father had him cornered. "So, Enrique, do you see yourself married in the next year?"
Being interrogated by Papá was something Carolina wouldn't wish on her worst enemy.
"Enrique, let's go."
Enrique's brows raised as he stood. "Where?"
Carolina looked at her father, then back to Enrique, then back to her father. She had created this fake relationship as a ruse to keep her family happy. What she was about to do would instead possibly tear them apart--- but it had to be done. Enrique had made her want things she hadn't really wanted with another man before.
There was no going back. The time was now.
"Out on a real date.”
Source: Kiss Me, Mi Amor
“Mamá ideó un método para que olvidáramos las cosas feas que nos ocurrieran, y para que a su vez siempre recordáramos la lección aprendida. Rescataba la cita de un libro o el diálogo que considerara apropiado para la ocasión, y con su perfecta caligrafía lo escribía en uno de los azulejos blancos de la cocina de casa. Así, al leerlas cada vez que pasáramos por delante, recordaríamos la razón de lo escrito, y entenderíamos que por mucho que algo doliera, siempre había alguien que en algún momento se había sentido igual que nosotros. Y no se trataba de un alguien cualquiera: debajo de cada cita, firmaba con el nombre de un escritor o del personaje que aquel inventara, para darle voz a las emociones o a las vivencias que todos, sin excepción, tenemos a lo largo de nuestra vida. Era su manera de convencernos de que alguien ya vivió lo mismo antes de que nosotros lo hiciéramos, y que, incluso en los infiernos que nuestra imaginación inventa, se pueden escribir las más bellas historias".”
Source: Amapolas en octubre
“Mamá sabía ser alegre. Mamá sabía ser temerosa. Mamá sabía olvidar fácilmente. Y, sin embargo tenía buena memoria. Mamá me daba con la puerta en la narices, y sin embargo, me admitía en su baño. A veces mamá se me perdía, pero su instinto me encontraba. Cuando yo rompía vidrios, mamá ponía la masilla. A veces se instalaba en el error, aunque a su alrededor hubiera sillas suficientes. Aun cuando se encerraba en sí misma, para mí siempre estaba abierta. Temía las corrientes de aire y sin embargo no paraba de levantar el viento. Gastaba, y no le gustaba pagar impuestos. Yo era el revés de su medalla. Cuando mamá jugaba corazones ganaba siempre.”
Source: El Tambor De Hojalata
“Mamá Teté has a saying: “Al que no le gusta el caldo, que le den dos tazas.” I guess I grew up thinking that was the only way. That if I didn’t like something, I should keep at it, until the habit of turning up my nose at whatever it was, was gone.”
Source: The Making of Yolanda la Bruja
“Mamă-sa o sorbea din ochi de dragoste și admirație. Rosmarin clipea mișcat, aprobându-i fiecare cuvânt. Până și Tinca, de obicei posacă, avea un zâmbet pe fața-i lătăreață. Liana era răsfățata casei mai mult chiar decât Bebe. Baremi bunica o diviniza mai ales pentru inima ei fără pereche de bună și de simțitoare.”
Source: Jar
“Mamă, soție, fiică – trei generații de femei... în palma mea...”
“Man
is a bird full of mud,
I say aloud.
And death looks on with a casual eye
and scratches his anus.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”
“Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
“Man - a figment of God's imagination.”
“Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)
“Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.”
Source: The Ethics of Rhetoric
“Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.”
Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson
“Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.”
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...
“Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.”
Source: The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World
“man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.”
“Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“Man absolutely cannot live by himself.”
“Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.”
“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
“Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.”
Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke
“Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly”
Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation
“man acīs cērt saule rokā guļ zvārgulītis bez mēles
un es gaidu kad tajā iespers zibens”
“Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.”
“Man against man can only take revenge but cannot punish”
Source: Umbilical Cord: A cord that remains, always, in many ways...
“Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.”
Source: Natural History: An Account by a Roman of what Romans Knew and Did and Valued
“Man alone can enslave man.”
Source: Oppression and Liberty
“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”
“Man alone is made in the image of God.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
“Man alone measures time.
Man alone chimes the hour.
And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures.'
'A fear of time running out.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.”
“Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .”
Source: The Silver Stallion
“Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.”
“Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.”
“Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man -- and free -- when he considers himself as a total being in whom the unmediated whole of feeling and thought is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory.”
Source: Language: An Enquiry Into Its Meaning and Function
“Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.”
Source: The Bataille Reader
“Man always dies before he is fully born.”