List of Topics starting with [M]

Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; ...

For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around ...

Not knowing should not be an excuse when the matter of knowing becomes a turning point in one's life

You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better ...

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a ...

People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.

Sometimes happiness can come very simply, purely, merely if one is ready to embrace it with open arms.

I love you...and I'm sorry it took losing you to figure that out."His anger deflated. "Did you say you love me?"She nodded and tears dripped ...

In the dark, all cats are black.

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.

To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves.

We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but too afraid to become it ourselves.

I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break ...

[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for construing ...

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

It's just you now.""Just you." Tom closed his eyes for just a second, soothed by the warm rub of Prophet's palm, then opened them. "I ...

No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the ...

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you ...

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.

And most of all we smile at each other as if we can't believe how happy we feel just being together just breathing in the ...

Oh no my foot fell asleep oh cronus

This watching through cool intent eyes and delicately adjusting one factor or another till a man's fundamental instinct for self-preservation cracks, is savagery in its ...

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry ...

Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there ...

It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear ...

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and ...

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

The Gobi wasn't completely devoid of life; its ecosystem was unexpectedly extensive and varied given the extremes to which it subjected its denizens, but some ...

In tougher times, when dollars are tighter, the next round of funding may never come.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit. Gold was the ...

How great is the frailty of human nature which is ever prone to evil! Today you confess your sins and tomorrow you again commit the ...

Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.

My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they ...

It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go

Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!

Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't ...

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither ...

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

Dammit. I hate it when my crazy is right.

When crew and captain understand each other to the core, It takes a gale and more than a gale to put their ship ashore; For ...

Find forgiveness for other people's actions as much as our own.

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

Let love become the gravestoneThat lies upon my life.

Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for ...

The pain of dying will surely be nothing, for the pain of love is so much stronger and agonizing.

But I would do it all again, every bit of it, I would lose him again just to have him again for an hour, for ...

I never keep anything beautiful in the closet.

The fumes of wine fermented in my head; it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to ...

Power is a tricky thing, mija. It can lift you up high on its wings and up into the sky where you feel invincible. But ...

We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.

I like to make people think a little bit.

Small bait cast properly can catch big fish.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes and Kant: the ...

I decided about a year ago, and I just feel like I want to see more personal style in people, and I feel like if ...

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

He'd gone from being just my tormentor to being my tormentor and protector, though I needed protection from nothing but him.

Whatever you need, whatever I have to do. It's been that way since we met. Haven't you noticed yet? We're fucking destined or something. I ...

I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a ...

The monied interests are doing what they do best - making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best - ...

In the course of social evolution, usage precedes law; and that when usage has been well established it becomes law by receiving authoritative endorsement and ...

You don't need to wait for God to show up, in order to be rescued from your bad situation. God has been trying to get ...

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of ...

Repentance restores your relationship with God.

A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there ...

I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, ...

I remember when 'Grease' came out, I used to force my mum to try and grease my hair back, and it was never long enough, ...

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role ...

He loved the fact that if you got your customer laughing then you had their money in your pocket

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it ...

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

Only then, when no situation or character is obviously good or evil, is it truly interesting to act.

There have been conversations here in the United States about why every ex-President opens a library when politicians do not read the books. Hello, America! ...

Dysmorphia is when someone looks in the mirror, and sees something else. While I studied my own whatever I was, I decided that maybe everyone ...

I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can't actually afford to make what they want to ...

Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, ...

You'd tell me if we were getting married, wouldn't you? I mean, you wouldn't just appear on my doorstep one day and say we were ...

Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.

But all things considered, he could go a very long time not being run over by a Volvo again and feel just dandy about it. ...

It's a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.

Getting a well-rounded education and developing a love of learning that hopefully will continue to last my lifetime certainly helped prepare me to understand what's ...

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.

This is something which I think this country needs ... I want universal coverage! I want everyone in Massachusetts and in this country to have ...

I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there ...

Nikolas was the conscious decision of his heart.

That Miss Priss vibe she's got going on kind of does it for me. It makes me want to get her dirty. Really, really dirty.