#ned

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#disaster #due #governed #happiness #life

I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed. ↗

— Bill Maher

#amp #being #bout #concerned #day

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#concerned #democracy #eat #educated #egypt

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#beginnings #chamber #listened #meant #meant to be

It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#california #children #conditions #deplorable #desert

I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#bed #bedroom #chained #computer #day

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#i #i think #recover #rhythm #some

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#control #different #edges #i #i have learned

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#democracy #discovers #far #go #how

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#conditioning #direct #feared #gained #i