All Quotes

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that hold the radiance of beauty.
‐‐ John O'Donohue

Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
‐‐ Alice Foote MacDougall

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.
‐‐ Dylan McDermott

Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson

Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.
‐‐ Maria Semple

Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
‐‐ Francoise Sagan

Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.
‐‐ Melody Beattie

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.
‐‐ Ariel Garten

Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition?
‐‐ Andrew Nikiforuk

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
‐‐ Charles Simmons

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.
‐‐ Robert Scheer

Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time were major creditors for Greece and Greek banks.
‐‐ Mario Monti

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
‐‐ Ann Beattie

Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.
‐‐ Emily Oster

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
‐‐ Anish Kapoor

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
‐‐ Susan George

Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'
‐‐ Liz Williams

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.
‐‐ Robert Reich

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.
‐‐ Eric Alterman

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.
‐‐ Thomas Perry

Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.
‐‐ Samuel P. Huntington

Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.
‐‐ Peter Camejo

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.
‐‐ Martha Beck

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
‐‐ Charles H. Townes

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski

Much remains to be learned about stratospheric chemistry - and, in more general terms, about the physics and chemistry of the global atmosphere.
‐‐ Mario J. Molina

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.
‐‐ Paul Harris

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
‐‐ George Dennison Prentice

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
‐‐ Sophocles

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
‐‐ Saskya Pandita

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
‐‐ Horace Mann

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
‐‐ Agnes Smedley

Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

Much to Mr. Obama's chagrin, ours is not a government run by fiat. The American people have shown quite clearly that they will not simply roll over while this administration seeks to undercut our founding principles in pursuit of its preferred European model of government.
‐‐ Trent Franks

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.
‐‐ Alfred Doblin

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
‐‐ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
‐‐ Sophocles