List of Topics starting with [M]

Mom says,'What are you going to do when it's time to go to college?' I choose not to think about that yet. That is years ...

History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in ...

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes - I mean Amen,' said Ransom, and hurled ...

Mr. Gradgrind greatly tormented his mind about what the people read in this library:

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more ...

I prefer not to wink out from behind the character as myself, saying to the audience, "It's just me here, right, guys?" Peter Sellers is ...

Hindi cinema, now often referred to loosely by the term 'Bollywood', is one of the best-known and most widely appreciated features of contemporary Indian culture. ...

Cade was a vampire. Zach had finally gotten over that. For the most part. Other people could argue about how vampires didn't exist, how they ...

Life is like a rollercoaster with highs and lows. So quit complaining about it and enjoy the ride!

Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved ...

But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. ...

From today onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. ...

It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the ...

I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented - the furor of ...

United States military leader General Norman Schwarzkopf stated, "Leaders need two things - character and strategy. If you can do only one, drop strategy.

I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my ...

The problem in the modern spiritual landscape is not only a plethora of genuine, useful material but also a marketplace teeming with questionable ideas, practices, ...

He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was ...

People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. ...

Every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. ...

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying ...

I was thinking I would miss the rain. I wonder if you can experience the rain in Heaven, if God will let you dip your ...

This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the ...

It feels like I'm stuck in one spot. It's been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you're moving on ...

Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it's my religion. There's the idea that you can't truly know happiness ...

Can you help me move those tables against the wall?" Mama pointed to five tables in the back corner. "The funeral home said they needed ...

What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts ...

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary ...

My son Asclepius had become the god of medicine by the time he was fifteen, and I couldn't have been happier for him. It left ...

Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.

I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.

While they read and talked together, there was opened before them the great book wherein God has written, in the language of mountain, and tree, ...

APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons ...

In most families, care-giving becomes the woman's responsibility. While care-giving can enrich you, it can also deplete you if you don't have support or make ...

I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. ...

Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.

As it turns out, if you freeze improperly packed human remains (i.e. balling them up willy-nilly and jamming them under a couple frozen turkeys and ...

Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we ...

It's quite common for a Sufi mystic to cry in ecstasy that he's neither a Jew, a Christian, nor a Muslim. He is at home ...

Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be ...

I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are still ...

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as ...

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

When liberals equate criticizing Islamic doctrine with anti-Muslim bigotry, it leaves a vacuum that is too frequently filled by genuine right-wing anti-Muslim bigots who are ...

At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns ...

Books can be viewed as food for the mindStop reading and your brain can become anemicRead junk and your thinking can become malnourishedBut handle your ...

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty?"~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle

Sophie and I would use her Christmas break to make homemade treats from our very own kitchen. I mean, if thousands of meth addicts can ...

Some people make you laugh a little louder, your smile a little brighter, and your life a little better.

Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, ...

When we look at life through the eyes of Jesus Christ, it is absolutely impossible to see any obstacles. Matthew 11:28-30.

Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly ... There ...

I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you ...

Well he could hate too, hate was easy, hate would fuel him if his mother's love could not. Loyalty is our strength. He snorted a ...

Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could ...

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've ...

I think that Hassan Nasrallah is the best leader in the Muslim world.

The script's always important, but there are some things that have come out in the past year that, when we read them, everyone was like, ...

The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected ...

Embarrassing ourselves in front of strangers is literally one of the worst things that can happen to us. It's in the slot where polio used ...

The world may or may not be with our purpose. But its not totally without some kind of magic [Magic in the moonlight movie - ...

Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you ...

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his ...

I kind of grew up my whole life as an underdog. I had two older brothers who would beat on me and then let me ...

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with ...

ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.

Marriage is a partnership between one man and one woman ... Nothing could be clearer in the Bible as to what constitutes a marriage in ...

Our march toward self-annihilation has already obliterated ninety percent of the large fish in the oceans and wiped out half of the mature tropical forests, ...

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father ...

My nephew's always crying. I'm like, 'Dude, why are you crying? Your life is great. All you do is eat apple sauce and take dumps. ...

I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I ...

God, You direct my steps. Although the path may lead me through dark valleys or appear to take unnecessary detours, I believe that one day ...

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing ...

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel ...

It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in ...

Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?

Other classic experiments conducted by social psychologist Solomon Asch show how adults readily adopt the opinion of others in simple tasks, such as matching a ...

My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my ...

Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter ... And which will you choose? For ...

My life is pretty much an open book.

'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.

Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost ...

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We ...

Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power' Romeo and Juliet, II, iii

The most beautiful things in life happen, when they are least expected.

You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. ...

Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day ...

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's ...

The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.

I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.

My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not ...

The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us ...

Embrace each new day with great expectations.

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room.