M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.”
“My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.”
“My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.”
“My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none.”
Source: Washington's Farewell address: the view from the 20th century
“My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.”
“My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.”
“My aim in life is never to be skinny.”
“My aim in life is not to judge.”
“My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.”
“My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.”
Source: Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981
“My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.”
“My aim in times to come is not to just work with Muslims but to actually sing songs for everyone and sing songs in which people all over the world can relate to.”
“My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.”
“My aim is a very modern Dior, but at the end of the day, I also look back.”
“My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.”
“My aim is just to make good music every single time.”
“My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.”
“My aim is not to build a kingdom for me, my aim is to demolish human's kingdom against God”
“My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.”
“My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.”
Source: The Conscience of a Conservative
“My aim is not to start a new offensive against Russian soldiers, but to deter Russia from further aggression. The thing is that the EU is always playing by the rules. Putin is always playing with the rules. At the beginning, many thought that, after annexing Crimea, the beast would calm down. But he continued by supporting the so-called separatists in eastern Ukraine.”
“My aim is to achieve sustainable change, not just make a cute little makeover.”
“My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large group of beings: members of species other than our own - or, as we popularly though misleadingly call them, animals. In other words, I am urging that we extend to other species the basic principle of equality that most of us recognize should be extended to all members of our own species.”
Source: Bioethics: An Anthology
“My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.”
“My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations.”
“My aim is to banish this mental slavery within the citizens and make them to turn their eyes on the scientific researches.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“My aim is to be able to be more spontaneous so I keep evolving my live set-up.”
“My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop... A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society.”
“My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions. It means drawing the spectator to an idea. Look at the modern advertisements. It's contemporary abhinaya. But one who creates should know what has to be completely and what has to be suggestively portrayed. That is ethical aesthetics. The Natyasastra says a production must be such that a family should be able to watch it together.”
“My aim is to create a happy environment where the players are working hard, but enjoying themselves. You've got to enjoy yourself, and you've got to have a bit of fun as well.”
“My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.”
“My aim is to create the perfect dress!”
“My aim is to ensure that my patients heal themselves, and they don’t need any doctor.”
“My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.”
“My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. To seek freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of so-called free and accidental brush handling.”
“My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.”
Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.”
“My aim is to have my positive words spread like fire, and heal as many people as possible.”
“My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," he said, for this is the "the most important activity.”
“My aim is to integrate business connections into vulnerable communities thus creating jobs.”
“My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most seditious, destructive, blasphemous, and bloodiest in any or all the nations of the world, notwithstanding the many fine veils, pretenses, and colors of not persecuting Christ Jesus, but heretics; not God's truth or servants, but blasphemers and seducers; not persecuting men for their conscience, but for sinning against their conscience; and like specious reasonings to justify the cruelty of intolerance.”
“My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.”
“My aim is to make the viewer become aware of his or her responsibility in what he or she is looking at.”
“My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.”
“My aim is to motivate a human being, to find the champion within”
“My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.”
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“My aim is to reflect the actual human-scape, a little bit.”