#had

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#belonged #country #emotionally #enormously #every

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#down #fit #fool #free #freedom

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#had #packing #portable #rendering #talent

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#event #greater #lives #our #our lives

There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better. ↗

— Magnus Magnusson

#apart #been #better #even #exercises

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#being #conviction #had #i #lives

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#encounters #had #held #i #interviews

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#bother #composer #could #had #say

I find it inconceivable that we're meeting for five and a half days, and there isn't one moment on the agenda to deal with the greatest crisis we've ever had in the church since 1789. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#church #crisis #days #deal #ever

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#being #child #could #had #however