Quotes about most

page 23

“Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”

“The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.”

“You were. You are
The brightest thing in the shop window
And the most beautiful seldom I ever saw”

“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”

“The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn--”

“Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.”

“I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are pretty much beyond me.”

“Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.”

“Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.”

“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”

“It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.”

“Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.”

“Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.”

“the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!”

“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.”

“Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.”

“What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.”

“That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.”

“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”

“When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder… the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.”

“I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.”

“There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.”

“Aww, did I just become the most popular person in this tent?”

“It’s a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron)
Reverse PMS? (Artemis)
Yeah, unlike a normal woman, you’re cranky twenty-eight days out of the month. (Acheron)”

“For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”

“Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.”

“Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”

“Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.”

“The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.”

“Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.”

“A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.”

“And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.”

“Of all the secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood the most divine was humor.”

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

“All our days are marked with/
unexpected/
affronts--some/
disastrous, others/
less so/
but the process is/
wearing and/
continuous./
Attrition rules./
Most give/
way/
leaving/
empty spaces/
where people should/
be.”

“In a battle between  two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.”

“If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.”

“Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks.”
“Just most things.”

“And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.”

“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”

“It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But… We don't have to let those fears stop us. What's most important is that we try to rise above our weakness.”

“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.”

“I’d mentioned this odd wardrobe choice to Adrian a couple of weeks ago:
“Isn’t Dimitri hot?”
Adrian’s response hadn’t been entirely unexpected:
“Well, yeah, according to most women, at least.”

“Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness.

Sometimes it is comforting.

Most often, it isn't.”

“Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.”

“Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.”

“You who have inhabited me
in the deepest and most broken place,
are going, going”

“Lord Peter Wimsey: I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.”

“Most things disappoint till you look deeper.”

“He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.”

“The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.”

“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”

“For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.”

“Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.”

“The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat.”

“Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.”

“You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most… you are beastly.”

“Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.”

“Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the.”

“Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.”

“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”

“I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.”

“You're alive!" Fezzik cried.
The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across…”

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

“The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us.”

“My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own.”

“Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.”

“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon”

“Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.”

“The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men.”

“Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.”

“I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.”

“Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.”

“… most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.”

“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.”

“We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.”

“I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.”

“I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.”

“Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.”

“It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.”

“Despicable creatures, vultures: without a doubt the most disgusting birds ever. I suppose they served their purpose, but did they have to be so greasy and ugly? Couldn't we have cute fuzzy rabbits that cleaned up roadkill instead?”

“It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us… There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you… We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.”

“What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly… timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.”

“It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.”

“I suppose […] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.”

“Listen, son—most women are damn fools and children. But they’ve got more range than we’ve got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better—and the vile ones are viler.”

“The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.”

“The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I'm out there, no one can bother me…”

“The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.”

“If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.”

“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”

“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.”

“And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.”

“Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.”

“Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.”

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”