Quotes about most

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“It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.”

“If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.”

“I hated to leave her and I hated to
be near her,
because she made me remember what I wanted most to forget.”

“Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.”

“most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.”

“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”

“The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.”

“To Thetis,
Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that.
-Seth”

“The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.”

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”

“Most good things come with the risk of something bad.”

“The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.”

“No one would have ever guessed that seven of the world's most talented teenagers were coming to the Henley that day for an entirely different sort of lesson.”

“Valkyrie, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your friend is most likely dead.”
“Of course he’s dead. He’s a skeleton.”

“I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found.”

“Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.”

“The most Beautiful people are the ones that don't look like one race or even one sex”

“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

“You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.”

“Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”

“I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.”

“Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.”

“It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.”

“Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.”

“The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.”

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.”

“The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.”

“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”

“The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing…”

“Love is the one thing in this world that you should never have to go through alone… For unreciprocated love is the most soul crushing experience you will ever go through.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”

“Treasures:
The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it.”

“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see”

“It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because… you are always me.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

“Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It’s like an Idiot’s Guide to the Afterlife.”

“Nothing?" Favonius cried. "The one you care for most… plunged into Tartarus, and you still will not allow the truth?"

Suddenly Jason felt like he was eavedropping.”

“Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.”

“… the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.”

“To be kissed on the lips by your husband is the most decadent thing.”

“But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.”

“The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.”

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”

“Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.”

“Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principle appetites of the soul.”

“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement …”

“Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.”

“The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.”

“A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.”

“The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one
soul, and he has got dozens.”

“I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel.
I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.”

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”

“Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.”

“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”

“The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.”

“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.”

“The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.”

“When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.”

“The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?"
Yes."
My Imagination."
I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself."
Then you have a small imagination."
Roland and Eddie”

“To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.”

“It‘s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.”

“Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.

Giggles can spread from person to person.

So can blushing.

But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.”

“This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.”

“My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.”

“My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.”

“Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.”

“The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.”

“most people are perfectly afraid of silence”

“I think the most un-American thing you can say is, “You can't say that.””

“There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.”

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.”

“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.”

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

“You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.”

“See? My plans don’t all suck. Just most of them.”

“It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.”

“For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.”

“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”

“But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority”

“You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen”

“Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.”

“What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.”

“If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."
This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.”

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”

“The simplest things in life are the most extraordinary. Let them reveal themselves.”

“No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.”

“Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.”

“Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.”

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”

“You know, I would date if I could find a man worth shaving my legs for. But most are such a waste of time that I’d rather sit at home and watch reruns of Hee Haw.”

“It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.”

“My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a 'they' as opposed to a 'we' can be identified at all.”

“Who loves you most? Who loves you best? Who thinks of you when others rest?”

“Belief?"
"Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?"
Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?"
"The most important kind, I think.”

“The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

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“Life is the most spectacular show on earth”

“Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!”

“The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.”

“Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.”