#met

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#beautiful #benign #beyond #brilliant #fame

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#action #again #always #become #democracy

I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years. ↗

— Gavin MacLeod

#been #haven #i #killed #must

Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#could #i #keep #like #myself

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#against #anesthetic #blinding #brings #conscience

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#fashionable #few #i #ladies #last

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#always #art #art form #base #based

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#because #find #furiously #get #i

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#around #being #busted #consistency #enjoy

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#article #foreign #i #impresses #many