#ace

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. ↗

— John Masefield

#cannot #commonplace #dare #dislike #exult

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see. ↗

— John Masefield

#earthly #few #hate #ignorance #know

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#chechnya #i #me #more #much

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#human race #men #men and women #race #selling

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. ↗

— George Mason

#disgraceful #itself #mankind #slaves #states

Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#beautiful #beginning #clear #i #ideas

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection. ↗

— Heather Matarazzo

#before #doors #face #feel #going

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#boarding school #coach #could #dream #football

I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place. ↗

— Diana Ross

#i #keep #place #priorities #right

Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#because #box #box office #corporate #different