M Quotes
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“Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.”
“Much self-condemnation is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark "One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself
“Much self-condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark, 'One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man'. In ancient Athens, when a politician was trying to get the votes of the working class by appearing very humble in a tattered coat with big holes in it, Socrates unmasked his hypocrisy by exclaiming, 'Your vanity shows forth from every whole in your coat'.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself
“Much serious thought has been devoted to the subject of chocolate: What does chocolate mean? Is the pursuit of chocolate a right or a privilege? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?”
“Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.”
“Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.”
“Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.”
Source: The Dialogues of Plato
“Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.”
“Much. so there is free dessert involved here." I put my hand to my forehead. "oh, that i had discovered the job first!"
Ryan laughs. "tragic."
want to hear something tragic? my dad is going to a Christian singles' retreat."
Ryan nearly spits out his coffee. "your dad?" he is shacking.
Brandon wallops him on the back a few times. Ryan holds his hands up at him, coughing. "Stop," he croaks, standing. he inhales a few times and gets his voice back. "You would have to tell me this when my mouth was full, wouldn't you?" he sits again.
I smile broadly.
a Christian singles' retreat?" he repeats
Yep," Brandon says. "Get the name: Marley's Michigan Marriage Makers."
I cover my face
Ryan's expression twists. " thats.... interesting," he says slowly
Hallie frowns. "If its a Christian retreat, why is it called Marley's?"
Its a denomination in Michigan," Brandon says. "Marlotist. I just call them Marley for fun."
I double over until my head hits the table.
There is not a denomination called Marlotist," Hallie says.
Is too. I visited one of their churches when I went to Michigan to ski one time," Brandon says.
My eyes blur with tears from laughing so hard and holding it all in. My shoulders start shaking.
Brandon levels a good kick to my shin.
Ow!" I reach for my leg.
What is the name of it, Laurie?" Ryan asks.
Meet Your Match in Michigan"
Brandon scowls at me. " Spoilsport.”
Source: Rematch
“Much sooner than we think, comes the end! Science is the only master who can change this.”
“Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.”
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues
“Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.”
“Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.”
“Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite.”
“Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.”
“Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be”
Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works
“Much sweat, much pay - Less sweat, less pay.”
“Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.”
“Much testing, much reflecting, much living must intervene before we can say, 'My soul is my own.”
“Much that has passed for ‘science’ is now felt to be dubious philosophy; much that is held to be ‘real science’ is often felt to provide only confused fragments of the realities among which men live. Men of science, it is widely felt, no longer try to picture reality as a whole or to present a true outline of human destiny. Moreover, ‘science’ seems to many less a creative ethos and a manner of orientation than a set of Science Machines, operated by technicians and controlled by economic and military men who neither embody nor understand science as ethos and orientation. In the meantime, philosophers who speak in the name of science often transform it into ‘scientism,’ making out its experience to be identical with human experience, and claiming that only by its method can the problems of life be solved. With all this, many cultural workmen have come to feel that ‘science’ is a false and pretentious Messiah, or at the very least a highly ambiguous element in modern civilization.”
Source: The Sociological Imagination
“Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.”
Source: Selected poems
“Much that is natural, to the will must yield.
Men manufacture both machine and soul,
And use what they imperfectly control
To dare a future from the taken routes.”
Source: The Sense of Movement
“Much that may seem evil can be good.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.”
Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959
“Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.”
“Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.”
Source: DUNE
“Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.”
“Much that we had appreciated about one another had been left unsaid. In humor, in life and in love, we had understood.”
Source: The Eyre Affair
“Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
“Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.”
“Much the way I want to know if my food is farm-raised, or wild, or if my orange juice is fresh or from concentrate. I also believe I have the right, and we as Americans all have the right to know what's in our food.”
“Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.”
“Much though we like these panties," he says, tugging at the small material covering my pulsating sex, "they're only going to be in the way...”
Source: The Abduction
“Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.”
“Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity.”
“Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them. They were the pre-ordained promptings from the dark and locked off parts of his mind.
He sat still and ignored the thought furiously. It nagged at him.
He ignored it. It nagged at him. He ignored it. It nagged at him.
He gave in to it.
What the hell, he thought, go with the flow. He was too tired, confused and hungry to resist. He didn't even know what the thought meant.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Much to my chagrin, I think that cinema has gone the wrong way in America because in many ways, I pioneered the use of video which eventually became digital video. Everyone can do it; it's Pop Art time: "Everything is art, why should you take it so seriously, after all it's kind of like a clambake." I don't buy that.”
“Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.”
“Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!”
“Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.”
“Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.”
Source: The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave Female Entrepreneur
“Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.”
Source: Programming in Common LISP
“Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.”
Source: Fables of Aesop ... By Sir Roger L'Estrange ... The Fifth Edition Corrected
“Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.”
“Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.”
“Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.”