Quotes about most

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“if you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed."

She paused. "And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you.”

“Groucho: You know I think you're the most beautiful woman in the world?
Woman: Really?
Groucho: No, but I don't mind lying if it gets me somewhere.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“I must confess. Of all of the brotherhood, he was the one I loved first and he remains the one I love the most. For me, he is just the… one.”

“God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.”

“One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.”

“The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.”

“Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.”

“I can't drive."
"I'm going to teach you," he'd said confidently.
At the end of the lesson, he'd declared her the most aggressive and dangerous driver he'd ever encountered.
Which meant… number one! (Sabine)”

“Regret is the most tiresome of companions.”

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”

“Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.”

“Can I ever come back here' he asked, and the Woodsman said something very strange in reply.
'Most people come back here,' he said, 'in the end”

“A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.”

“Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.”

“On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.”

“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”

“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..”

“A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”

“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.”

“Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.”

“I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.”

“The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.”

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”

“For most of us, once something was busted, it was game over. I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.”

“… the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.”

“Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.”

“Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across.”

“My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.”

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste”

“Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.”

“At least the statue didn’t rumble, “DIE, UNBELIEVERS!” and zap the mortals to dust. Reyna had once dealt with a statue of the goddess Diana like that. It hadn’t been her most relaxing day.”

“A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?”

“Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature. They lead "still" lives, waiting.”

“Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.”

“When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.”

“Most dancers I know, especially the talented and successful ones, seem to possess [my dog's] knack for living moment to moment. You see, their idea of time is related to those infinitely short moments when they are onstage being their superselves.”

“Words are where most change begins.”

“Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.”

“More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.”

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny …”

“Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.”

“What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.”

“Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.”

“The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!”

“The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own—not with ink, but with our daily choices.”

“On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he
speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts
of him.”

“A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.”

“Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.”

“Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.”

“To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention.”

“Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.”

“Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.”

“We are Morgensterns," he added, a dark ache in his voice. " The bright stars of morning. The children of Lucifer, the most beautiful of all God's angels. We are so much lovelier when we fall." He paused. "Look at me, Clary. Look at me.”

“It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride.”

“For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.”

“Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.”

“People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.”

“Remember that your dominating thoughts attract,
through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most
convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon.”

“What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.”

“The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.”

“What are the three most important rules of the chemist?"

This I knew from Ben. "Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere.”

“I abhorred weakness of any kind but most particularly in my tea.”

“To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.”

“What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.”

“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”

“It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.”

“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.”

“The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.”

“So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.”

“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.”

“Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.”

“With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.”

“CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.”

“I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.”

“Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.”

“Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.”

“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”

“I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.”

“The most difficult kind of strength -- restraint.”

“Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.”

“The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.”

“Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.”

“Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?”

“Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.”

“I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!”

“Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.”

“Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.”

“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”

“By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.”

“Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!”

“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”

“Charlie, you’re one of the most gifted people I’ve ever known. And I don’t mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms of anyone I’ve ever met.”

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.”

“Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.”

“But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.”

“But what I found most interesting was that Aaron had apparently found a way to pass the time without her. Beside him, holding his hand, was a Moroi girl who looked about eleven but had to be older, unless he'd become a pedophile during our absence.”

“He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.”

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”