List of Topics starting with [M]

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

The difference between lie and lay. Lay is always passive. Even men used to say, I'd like to get laid. Though sometimes they said, I'd ...

But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?Consider one more ...

The efficiency of a hierarchy is inversely proportional to its Maturity Quotient, M.Q. MQ = No. of employees at level of incompetence x 100 Total ...

In a word, what characterizes the spiritist revelation is that while divine in its origin and of the initiative of the Spirits, its elaboration is ...

There are no winners today, but I feel justice for my family, i have to watch my two sons put a leg on every day ...

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent ...

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church ...

Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?

We walk and walk through the gray ashy dusk and the forest starts to fall asleep: The trees lie down side by side by side, ...

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and ...

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

There is an old saying "well begun is half done" - 'tis a bad one. I would use instead, "Not begun at all till half ...

The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this ...

If I didn't know better, I'd think you were trying to get me drunk," I said to Ranger. "Not drunk," Ranger said. "Just relaxed and ...

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Melanin Fiercely Poppin' on Purpose.

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time - not just for the hour or so in the day ...

Take a step back and view the world through your eyes, not someone else's. Listen to your heart and decide what you really want.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

Where music leads, I follow.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

And the best way to strengthen willpower and give students a leg up, studies indicate, is to make it into a habit.

Human megalomania will have suffered its third and most wounding blow from the psychological research of the present time which seeks to prove to the ...

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that ...

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. ...

When my baby was born I had to know how to save her in case she fell in the pool or something like that. I ...

At night in bed, they talked. He, of the bees. She of the birds. Never of the birds and bees.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

If one had sufficient evidence to warrant belief in a particular claim, then one wouldn't believe the claim on the basis of faith. "Faith" is ...

I dont see gold as a player in a healthy economy.

We're over at Dad's. James just won another hand of poker. I'm starting to worry.""He's your son, Pidge. Does it surprise you that he's good ...

Being on the ground in Mongolia and traveling with the horse culture and sleeping in yurts, I was able to pick up a lot of ...

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

The best way to make somebody feel important is to try to assassinate them.

This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.

Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that?

It seemed as though, being the only two people in this small, closed-in space, we couldn't help but have a relationship, and if we couldn't ...

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

If he had uttered the word "come" she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, "There is ...

There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution.

Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.

What would one do if one were forced to choose between saving an innocent child's life or engaging in unchaste behavior? This is, after all, ...

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on ...

I had no desire to be a star and a star's responsibility.

Before Sophie could say anything, Gabe dipped her backward and kissed her again. And she kissed him back.

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

Cognitive science

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your ...

Imagine what could happen if we all had the heart to be who we truly are.

There are two groups of people in this world; first, those who have everything but nothing and second, those who have nothing but everything.

If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the ...

If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are ...

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for ...

Life stinks, but I love it so.

What I've learned over the years is that people shouldn't be defined by a single mistake. Everyone messes up," she said. "You have to forgive ...

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

Perfect obedience would be perfect happiness, if only we had perfect confidence in the power we were obeying.

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In ...

We breathe in, we breathe out. We inhale and exhale the same molecules. We are natural recyclers of the same energy, whether or not we ...

I learnt that people copy people they look up to, and good products inspire copycats.

Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I ...

No returning smile from Ullman. He slipped Jack's application back into a file. The file went into a drawer. The desk top was now completely ...

Stephen Hawking QuotesLook up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what ...

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea] - fascinating! What an experience. Wow." - Justin Rohrlich, Emmy Award Winner, Head Writer, Minyanville's World In Review

I think, a lot of times, directors assume that whatever they get from you the first time, whether it be at an audition or on ...

The poor of the earth know how much we really love Jesus.

I'm going to shoot somebody," Maddie said."Sawyer hates when people do that. It's a whole bunch of paperwork.

Since 1981, I've spent every Thanksgiving Day broadcasting a game, and it is one of my favorite days. You can say, 'Woe is me, I ...

So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions ...

It appears that there are two different 'mechanisms' by which orderly events can be produced: the 'statistical mechanism' which produces 'order from disorder' and the ...

I was a pretty difficult teenager.

But science has given us new eyes that allow us to see down to the deeper roots of the world's structure, and there all we ...

I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new ...

Every man prays in his own language.

It doesn't matter if being so alive kills a man; it's better to have the quick fever every time.

I don't know. I don't understand how boys think. If I knew that I'd be a millionare.

Luck is nothing but combination of preparation and oppurtinity

Yet truth is a diamond; even mishandles, smeared with grease, or buried in mud, it cannot be marred and waits for one with a cloth ...

Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it ...

What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a ...

Letting go means wanting to move on so you can live.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most ...

One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, ...

Some of my favorite artists are Jason Mraz, Eric Hutchinson, Ben Folds, Bruno Mars, Mumford and Sons, Maroon 5 - their vibe is slightly different ...

History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.

Societies define themselves by how they define and manage dangers.

Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't ...

Nothing like trouble to make a day pass faster.

I believe this country was built on a simple promise: that each of us deserves a fair shot.