List of Topics starting with [M]

Do not be attached to the past or wait for the future. Be grateful for each day, that is enough. I do not believe in ...

Things don't always turn out the way we plan, but don't ever let what you haven't done eclipse all the good you have done and ...

We're wanting you to come to the place where you're beginning to offer your thought deliberately. Where you are guiding your thoughts on purpose, where ...

Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever ...

The awful truth was that Jim was happy: not in some bland, superficial way - fixed Kodak smiles under the bluest of skies - but ...

In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.

I don't want to know anything, and I want to know it all

To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief ...

Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants ...

There was no drug strong enough to repair a broken heart.

A growing church sees that the work of the ministry should be done by all

Stephen Harper is trying to load the dice between now and the next election in his own favour. Never before in the history of Canada ...

The bony figure of Death rides the streets below, stopping his mount now and then to peer into windows. Horns of fire on his head ...

The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which ...

I'll go be a revolutionary for a while, I guess." "Earthman's

One you have danced, you always dance.

If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' ...

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

Everything shifts as you move, and different things come into focus at different points of your life, and you try to articulate that.

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, ...

Never spend more time worrying about somebody or some situation (that plays no significant role in your life) more than you do about yourself.

I make up my mind about whether I can trust someone within 60 seconds of meeting them

I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't erase it entirely, ...

Pulaski said, "Even psycho killers need to do home repairs. Probably it's not related to the case.

I was honored to wear 'Arizona' across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the ...

There aren't terrible ideas," the Gray Man said. "Just ideas done terribly.

No gleam of reason, no momentary return to first principles, no abstract asking of any obvious question, can interrupt this mad and monotonous gallop of ...

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of ...

Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.

I can't always reach the image in my mind ... almost never, in fact ... so that the abstract image I create is not quite ...

Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.

{Rogers} sexual aim is "to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature who is the opposite of these: ...

The strongest force in our universe is not overriding power, but love.

It won't snow on us," I told my hiking companions, "because I lead a good and virtuous life." "We're dead," Dave Long said.

I'm an encourager at heart. I love to give words of encouragement and I love to receive words of encouragement. That's probably why words of ...

Even God couldn't be that cruel.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the ...

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

There's been a lot of balls that have been pounding in that end zone.

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

One paper published by a Duke University researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren't actual ...

One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was ...

When I say that you are gods and goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.

I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of ...

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the ...

In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme ...

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

I'd rather hate you for everything you are Than ever love you for something you are not I'd rather you hate me for everything I ...

I'm not maximized yet.

All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.

Different fights bring out different things. I consider myself a seasoned professional. I have done things in the gym that have not come out yet. ...

That was your cue to follow me.

You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. ...

It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal.

It seemed longer and redder than any car could be. It had a long gleaming bonnet of polished metal.

We've been looking at the tower for so long we forgot it's made of blocks; we forgot it can be put back together in a ...

I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make ...

Anna [Nicole Smith] was very firm that the Bahamas was her home, it's where she wanted to raise Dannielynn and she wanted Daniel to be ...

Read, write, enjoy

The walk to the exit brought him into contact with several changelings. That wasn't unusual. What was unusual was the response his presence elicited. Smiles, ...

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece ...

Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige,or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate onacademic abilities, ignoring the emotional ...

So this subject is done with. It is right to look our life-accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle them honestly

If I can walk, I'll play.

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against ...

It's interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a ...

I want my gun back," she said. "Why do you want your gun back?" "So I can shoot you." "Then you're definitely not getting your ...

Present fear is never as bad as later regret.

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

Facing that was my ultimate fear and my biggest freedom. I was alone. I was tiny. I was no one. Live or die, the world ...

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice ...

You look up for a moment and you're not sure which life is real. You've split yourself into so many honeycombed parts that they barely ...

I always wondered if they'd change you.

Nothing in this world takes over your blood like a murder case, nothing demands you, mind and body, with such a huge and blazing and ...

But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter ...

I got taken in by my uncle Frankie, know to his friends as Butcher Franchetti and to his enemies as 'Oh God no, don't kill ...

I just think some books are instructions on why women are dirt or hardly exist at all except as accessories or are inherently evil and ...

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not ...

Ben Carson actually lost a tooth. Which explains why he said that under his leadership, Americans would be entitled to 'life, liberty, and the purthuit ...

That was my first real experience at feeling set apart. Not only did I not knock them dead, but rather it was I that died...acutely ...

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

Through the window of my soul and the mirror of my mind, I was looking for the beauty of my life. I could not find ...

To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course ...

Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery ...

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and ...

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one side.

It was as if she had thought him into existence again, as if her mind were a flask into which had been poured a measure ...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have ...

I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good ...

Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks ...

Barrage of delectable sensations within her loins. Her whole being awakened to a heightening excitement as his tongue slowly traced around the delicately hued areola, ...

I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new ...

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.

He's all smooth grace and sexy smiles, whereas I'm big haired, awkward and a touch frumpy. You may well roll your eyes at my low ...

Miss Skeeter say maybe don't spec nothing at all, that most Southern peoples is "repressed." If they feel something, they might not say a word. ...

You touched my heart by your kindness.