All Quotes

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.
‐‐ James Coburn

The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand.
‐‐ Stella Young

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.
‐‐ Dmitri Mendeleev

'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it.
‐‐ Sharon Bolton

The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
‐‐ Edward Young

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.
‐‐ Arthur Herzog

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.
‐‐ Hideki Tojo

The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything.
‐‐ Robin Ince

The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.
‐‐ Jesse James Garrett

The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God?
‐‐ Mustafa Akyol

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
‐‐ Ernestine Rose

The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

The main cause that I have attached my name to and am working diligently in is the issue of climate change.
‐‐ Gloria Reuben

The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.
‐‐ Brian Greene

The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
‐‐ Victoria Hanley

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
‐‐ Talcott Parsons

The main concern was making sure the kids didn't get caught in the middle.
‐‐ Hunter Tylo

The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery.
‐‐ Emily Oster

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
‐‐ Charles Sturt

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
‐‐ Nancy Astor

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
‐‐ Mark Twain

The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks.
‐‐ Jonah Goldberg

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
‐‐ Rebecca West

The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'
‐‐ Adam Michnik

The main difference in the effectiveness of teaching comes from the thoughts the teacher has had during the entire time of his or her existence and brings into the classroom. A teacher concerned with developing humans affects the students quite differently from a teacher who never thinks about such things.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.
‐‐ Danny Pino

The main difference to me with Lyft is the sense of community and social experience. The pink mustache, fist bump and strict screening have fostered a strong sense of community with many stories of new friends, discovered jobs, and even some Lyft hugs after a tough break up.
‐‐ John Zimmer

The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
‐‐ Gabrielle Roy

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.
‐‐ Bjorn Lomborg

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
‐‐ Harold Wilson

The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.
‐‐ Jens Stoltenberg

The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
‐‐ Constantin Stanislavski

The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.
‐‐ Allan McNish

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice because it's my point of view.
‐‐ John Legend

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.
‐‐ Thomas Piketty

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
‐‐ Arthur Keith

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.
‐‐ Jean Piaget

The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary.
‐‐ Vittorio Grigolo