For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
Maxwell Maltz
Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.
Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
Paul De Man
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.
Morris Mandel
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
Bernard Mandeville
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.
Edouard Manes
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
Marcus Manilius
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?
Joan Manley
Sports should always be fun.
Charles Mann
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Golo Mann
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Louis L. Mann
Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help
Miss Manners
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
Henry Edward Manning
Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.
Rachel Manor
I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit.
Nigel Mansell
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Reginald B. Mansell
Men are creatures with eight hands.
Jane Mansfield
Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Lord Mansfield
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
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