#bi

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#birthday #birthday party #child #feel #fine

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#biological #developed #fully #himself #human

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#attributes #body #colours #combinations #elements

Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#assertive #express #fall #feelings #little

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#against #ambition #another #attack #first

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#acquire #admittedly #always #common #common thing

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#decision #less #life-changing #like #more

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#ambiguous #journalists #like #rather #report

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#crave #predictability #stability #welcomes #why

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#chance #change #creative #embrace #learned