Quotes about most

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“Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your
head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and
purrs.”

“For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me.
Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.”

“I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon”

“It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.”

“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”

“Men lie the most,

women tell the biggest lies.”

“the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.”

“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”

“I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.”

“I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.”

“For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.”

“Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality.”

“Most of my reading is rereading.”

“Did you hear? You are free."
Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.”

“Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.”

“what time is it? its is by every star
a different time, and each most falsely true…”

“It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car.
"Most things are”

“The most important decision we can make is whether this is a friendly or hostile universe. From that one decision all others spring.”

“You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.”

“Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.”

“I have long known that it is part of God’s plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth, and Mary Ellen was proof that even in the Appalachian woods I would not be spared. It became evident from the first moment that she was a rarity.”

“… It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.”

“Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry
a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.”

“You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.”

“It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.”

“The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps”

“But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.”

“I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.”

“Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.”

“Like most Beta Males, he didn't realize that being a good guy was not necessarily an attraction to women.”

“Things without meaning are the most beautiful ones.”

“He who laughs most, learns best.”

“Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.”

“? Is that boy crazy?"
"Most young men his age are somewhat crazy, I think," Sazed said with a smile. "However, this is hardly unexpected. Haven't you noticed how he stares at you when you enter a room?"
"I thought he was just creepy.”

“Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.”

“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”

“But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.”

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

“Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.”

“The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.”

“The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?”

“To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.”

“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”

“Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and bravest acts are done for love.”

“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”

“You can do this" I murmured. "You are my brother. I love you. All the embarrassing bits, all the annoying bits, which I imagine is most of you--a thousand Zias might run away from you if they knew the truth. But I won't. I'll still be here.”

“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”

“Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.”

“… in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”

“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.”

“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Women's dieting has become what Yale psychologist Judith Rodin calls a 'normative obsession,' a never-ending passion play given international coverage out of all proportion to the health risks associated with obesity, and using emotive language that does not figure even in discussions of alcohol or tobacco abuse. […] Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”

“She said she thought there were different ways of loving someone, and there were some she used to think were the most important, and now she had changed her mind.”

“The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.”

“The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.”

“Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.”

“I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.”

“Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.”

“Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”

“Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?'
'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.”

“You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”

“Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!”

“I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.”

“So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.”

“He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.”

“Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.”

“Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.”

“The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.”

“How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?”

“It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.”

“[.. ] the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.”

“He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck.”

“My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.”

“There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.”

“There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.”

“Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.”

“Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

“Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.”

“The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.”

“In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.”

“Here's a hot tip: Most girls don't like being stalked.”

“Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.”

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.”

“Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.”

“So just look mean and don’t make eye contact with anyone. (Syn)
Gee, hon, you take me to the most wonderful places. (Shahara)”

“I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.”

“What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books.”

“The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life.”

“Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.”

“Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest… was not so modest.”

“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.”

“Being a stranger was like being dead,
and brought to mind how, in a book he had read
that most folks misunderstood one common state:
The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.”

“The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.”

“It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.”

“Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.”