#table

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

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#connected #dreams #importance #more #our

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#although #choice #comfortable #culture #familiar

Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#better #child #doing #feel #focus

If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#comfortable #feel #hang #i #i feel

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

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#depends #greater #gulf #happiness #law

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#creep #enough #flesh #i #know

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. ↗

— John Major

#bad #bad man #certainly #change #inadequate