All Quotes

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people - there are only God-made souls.
‐‐ Ann Voskamp

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?
‐‐ Cynthia P. Schneider

Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
‐‐ Dan Glickman

Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.
‐‐ Neal Barnard

Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose to be a vegetarian when you could eat meat for every meal every day? That seemed madness to me.
‐‐ Neel Mukherjee

Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.
‐‐ Nick Offerman

Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It's as important as the kind of car you drive - whether you eat meat a lot or how much meat you eat.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig.
‐‐ Michael Specter

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
‐‐ Nicholas Stern

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.
‐‐ Alexandra Paul

Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the massive amounts of methane produced by farm animals and the huge amounts of water, grain and other resources required to feed animals.
‐‐ Jane Velez-Mitchell

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants. We can survive without it; millions of vegetarians choose to do so, and billions of others have that choice imposed upon them by poverty.
‐‐ Michael Specter

Meat, to me, it's slightly boring. Hold on, I love meat too, but only once in a while. You get a piece of meat, and you put it in your mouth, you chew, the first five seconds, all the juices flow around your mouth, they're gone, and then you are 20 more seconds chewing something that is tasteless at this point.
‐‐ Jose Andres

Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bowen

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright

Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.
‐‐ Lindsey Vonn

Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy.
‐‐ Heinrich Boll

Media always comments if I wear the same thing twice.
‐‐ Prince Royce

Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
‐‐ Pat Mitchell

Media Asia has great partners in China, Japan and Hollywood.
‐‐ Andrew Lau

Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers make choices. The truth is that consumers prefer blockbusters.
‐‐ Anita Elberse

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
‐‐ Charles W. Pickering

Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.
‐‐ Dan Gilroy

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
‐‐ Graham Greene

Media is so weird; everything is so accessible now. It used to be this thing where, if you did something on 'This American Life,' this predates me, but when David Sedaris did it, for example, it would just play, people who heard it heard it, and then the book would come out a year later, and people would be like, 'Ahh, I kind of remember that.'
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.
‐‐ Max Levchin

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.
‐‐ Robert D. Kaplan

Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.
‐‐ Robert Reich

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
‐‐ Jackson Katz

Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.
‐‐ James L. Brooks

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.
‐‐ Dylan McDermott

Media, the plural of mediocrity.
‐‐ Jimmy Breslin

Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain.
‐‐ Richie Benaud

Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
‐‐ Robert Reich

Mediators do not choose the conflicts they became involved in, but the parties to the conflict choose the mediator. Their participation as intermediaries is based on the trust of all the conflicting parties.
‐‐ Martti Ahtisaari

Medicaid and Medicare both need to be devolved to the states.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
‐‐ Irwin Redlener

Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.
‐‐ James T. Walsh

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?
‐‐ Tim Pawlenty

Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are essential to nurturing healthy futures year round and especially during the holiday season.
‐‐ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.
‐‐ Bill Flores

Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam