The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America's decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion, let alone flexing its muscles.
— Martin Jacques
I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the most famous person walk by some Dutch people, and they're like, 'Oh, hello.' And they maybe take a photo, but most of the time, they'll respect you and leave you alone. And if you go to some other countries they will literally mob you, go crazy.
— Martin Garrix
As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones.
— Martin Cooper
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
— Martha Beck
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
— Marshall McLuhan
I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.
— Markus Zusak
There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone.
— Mark Z. Jacobson
There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.
— Mark Rylance
Do something to help your community or people around you. That will help you feel more worthwhile and less alone.
— Mark Goulston
I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get charged with perjury strictly for political purposes.
— Mark Fuhrman
I was 27, an unemployed actress living in a really crappy studio apartment. I had just moved to Los Angeles alone, away from my family. I had cervical and uterine cancer and I was told that I would never be able to carry a baby.
— Marissa Jaret Winokur
Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.
— Mario Lopez
The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting? You've got to have friends out there. You can't do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.
— Mario Andretti
Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership.
— Marilyn Nelson
I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
— Marilyn Monroe
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.
— Marilyn Ferguson
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
— Martin Heidegger
I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.
— Martin Freeman
You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone.
— Martin Campbell
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
I didn't grow up with pets, but I live alone and figured a dog might be good for me. His name is Drexl, and he's a shih-tzu.
— Marsha Thomason
The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.
— Marketa Irglova
I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.
— Mark Wahlberg
I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor.
— Mark Ruffalo
Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.
Travelling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.
— Mark Foster
When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!
— Mariska Hargitay
I get advice, but the final decision about my life is one I always take alone.
— Mario Gotze
When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.
A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
My sister Naomi and I always wanted to go to Tahiti. We planned a fantastic holiday to visit several islands, but at the last moment, Naomi cancelled. It was the first time I'd holidayed alone, and it was absolutely the best.
— Marie Helvin
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
I don't want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with.
Gandhi, when he was on the salt march, had everyone singing the song of Rabindranath Tagore, which goes, 'Walk alone, walk alone...' Now there's some paradox in that, with a million people on the march! But he was cultivating the thought that each individual has dignity, and the dignity consists partly in the willingness to stand up to authority.
— Martha Nussbaum
What if Macauley Culkin were black in 'Home Alone?' Most people would write it differently... but I would write it the same way.
— Martellus Bennett
I would have no problem with living in China. I like discovering new places and cultures, and I would not go alone - my family would go with me.
— Marouane Fellaini
When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.
One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.
— Mark Skousen
Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
— Mark Haddon
Feeling alone makes negative feelings worse. When you feel alone, frustration quickly can become anger, fear quickly can become panic.
I was an only child, so I was alone a lot.
Just doing movies after movies after movies, you're never alone.
— Marion Cotillard
Sometimes I dream to be alone and that nobody would talk to me. But I understand that football is really important and that everybody watches it. When you're famous, you have to do photos or autographs, especially for the kids.
— Mario Balotelli
Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
— Marilyn vos Savant
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
