List of Topics starting with [M]

The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is ...

The light of awakeness itself is the deepest transformative agent, and the deepest alchemy takes place in the willingness to stay conscious to our own ...

Every civilization when it loses its inner visionand its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness,more vast and more stupendous than the old ...

They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, and were ...

I am responsible. Yes, I have chosen to be single..

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find ...

The energy it sapped from him, not being able to protect her. You wouldn't think that something you couldn't do and were not doing would ...

I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

The Christian versions of the household codes were clearly progressive for their time, but does that mean they have the last word, that Christians in ...

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just ...

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly ...

The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, ...

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.

I wanted to badly to be vulnerable over a burger, beer, and bags of free books we find on some stranger's porch. You wanted badly ...

I'm actually very good, he said matter-of-factly. Even when he says something that, on paper, sounds like bragging, it isn't. It's the way he says ...

Pride comes before a fall- although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

I didn't notice it in those early years - I thought I was surrounded by people who wished me nothing but good. I heard the ...

What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and ...

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.

It is better to have had your wish than to have wish you had.

He is very, very careful. I wish he wouldn't be.

There are none so deaf as those that will not hear.

Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda ...

Somebody sniggered. From Somewhere int he back of the room someone else sneered, "Yeah, Hazel," which was not the greatest insult ever, but one thing ...

To remind Muslims constantly of this grade their religion has been named Islam, which means to devote oneself wholly to God and to keep nothing ...

A foot on the neck is nine points of the law.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features ...

You have to accept the fact that not all your decisions are going to be right - and when they are wrong, you have to ...

Tis the gift to be simple ... 'Tis the gift to be free ...

The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation ...

In violent times folk like to kneel to violent men. In peaceful times they remember they're happier standing.

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.

If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.

I am on three different mood stabilizers so I don't think I experience a full range of emotions anymore. I feel abstractly dissatisfied with my ...

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

Anger and bitterness are two noticeable signs of being focused on self and not trusting God's sovereignty in your life. When you believe that God ...

Why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave?

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing ...

Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act.

Memoirists are our contemporary mythmakers.

I swore i could feel my lies slithering inside me like snakes, wrapping themselves around me and constricting. i felt they were squeezing the air ...

He sits in his tomb up top of the Newport hotel. It contains a crunchy armchair, a floppy bed, several arrogant spiders, a mattress with ...

Four inchesThe difference between life and death for you tonight was four inches.

While restoring a sense of fiscal discipline to Congress is a top priority, infrastructure spending is an important and necessary task of government. Our nation's ...

I love the world that is my room.

There are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we ...

Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.

After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

In fact, for dessert, I'll skip the rest of the cake and take one order of sexy single dad, please.

Generally, management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. And to control many is the same as ...

Said, looking for a job on Broadway.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

How come, when people wear half shirts, it's always the top half?

Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 ...

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary ...

Strategic execution always solves problems

My seminars are for you. They are moments, hours and evenings outside of time. A chance, in a highly charged environment, to meditate, find stillness, ...

Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist ...

A more wonderful life and a more beautiful world is one thought away.

Let reputation be one of the green or red lights that leads you toward or away from a person you are considering dating.

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.

She says I owe her.""And you always pay your debts? What kind of craziness is that?""Some people would say it's honorable.""Some people are stupid.

But perhaps my blocked sinuses did have something to do with how bad I was at gym, perhaps after all I did lack balance?

To dream is not enough, you have to fulfill your dream.

I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to ...

It's a sin only if conscience confirmed it.

It's not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they're 100 years old on regrown body ...

I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life...It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't ...

Here is a sermon for you, Reverend: Everything not dead dies. Just like those little fellows scooting around beside that dead mamma goose, little downy ...

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

Everybody knows how much time Fang spends in bed. A local store that gives a 30 days' trial on mattresses gives Fang only 15 days.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. ...

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, ...

If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales

All my life I thought love was supposed to be this amazing, wonderful feeling. I thought it was supposed to heal all wounds and conquer ...

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation

The tight lines between his brows and around his eyes softening.

Delayed, unexpressed appreciation is meaningless. The dead need no appreciation. The living do.

Today every believer has the potential to become a savior and a deliverer in his own area of specialization if only he/she make himself available

Your powers of observation are formidable, Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.

I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.

My dogs are more important than my family.

Earth can happily live without us, but we can no way live without earth!

Affection may not be love, but it is at least its cousin.

I'm Indian all the way and always will be. I'm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope I'm a good example ...

Faith is secured by adversity, but endangered by security.