How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poetry. All the rest is a lie --except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.
Stephane Mallarme
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.
Louis Malle
It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.
Douglas Malloch
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
Dean Acheson
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, the right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. Those are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
Samuel Adams
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
Dean Acheson, from a speech in I
The great corrupter of public man is the ego....Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Dean Acheson, from a speech to t
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.
Dwight D Eisenhower
The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.
Elizabeth Perle Mckenna
Man is the principal syllable in Management.
C. T. Mckenzie
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
Rod Mckeun
Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
Dan Mckinnon
Necessity is the mother of attraction.
Luke Mckissack
Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.
Malcolm Mclaren
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.
What is possible is our highest duty.
William E. Mclaren
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.
Dean McLaughlin
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon
Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
Terry McMillan
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends -- and he accepts it.
Larry McMurtry
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.
Ronald McNair
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
Scott McNealy
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
Rene Mcpherson
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
George H. Mead
If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.
Shepherd Mead
It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.
Henrietta Mears
To finish first, you must first finish.
Rick Mears
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Sir Peter Medawar
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
Francis Meehan
You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
Edwin Meese
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