#ring

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#beautiful #build #children #commonly #considering

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#conversation #everybody #more #than #where

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#because #cannot #expressed #feel #him

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#born #consider #first #hammering #i

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#edge #eyes #feet #flickering #happiness

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#attitudes #because #captains #control #faith

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler. ↗

— Esai Morales

#class #like #look #ruling #ruling class

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance. ↗

— Evo Morales

#change things #encountering #i #i see #impossible

I liked wearing the '50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such. ↗

— Erin Moran

#dresses #first #girl #got #hard

If we lose those people who come to the United States and get a PhD in computer engineering for example and they can't get a visa to stay in the United States, they are sent home, not only do we lose those people working here, but we lose the opportunity that they will have. They are the most likely entrepreneurs, people who will have a new idea. ↗

— Jerry Moran

#computer #engineering #entrepreneurs #example #for example