Quotes about most
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“Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Source: Sceptical Essays

World

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

“the most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

For Team, People, Success

“Never forget the nine most important words of any family-

I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Love, Family, Beauty, Forgiveness

“Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.”

Charles Alexander Eastman (1858–1939) American scouting pioneer

Children, Beauty, Learning, Happiness

“We will meet; and there we may rehearse most
obscenely and courageously.

Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Dreams, Courage, Night

“That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Variant: That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
Context: In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

World, Freedom

“The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

In response to Joe Walsh on The Howard Stern Show (1987).

Life

“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

Pleasure, Reading

“He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

Smile, Dreams, Memory

“But it’s like Cherise says, the hardest ones to love are always the ones who need it most. (Aimee)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

Love

“True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Source: Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics, Chapter 26 "The Civilizing Power of the Ethics of Reverence for Life"

Life

“Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches — and in punishment there is so much that is festive!”

Friedrich Nietzsche book On the Genealogy of Morality

Essay 2, Section 6
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

History, Parting

“In my crazy world, above all others… you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one… who was the most beautiful…. This is the unspoken truth.”

Kaori Yuki Japanese manga artist

Truth, World, Beauty

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”

Booker T. Washington book Up from Slavery

Variant: The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Source: Up from Slavery

“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”

Tony Benn (1925–2014) British Labour Party politician

Life, Pleasure

“So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you're afraid some day you might lose it.”

Nora Roberts Vision in White

Source: Vision in White

Life

“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

Life

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

Tsitsi Dangarembga Nervous Conditions

Source: Nervous Conditions

People

“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Way, Search, Forgetting, Happiness

“My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.”

Norman G. Finkelstein (1953) American political scientist and author

Support, Parent

“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!”

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist

“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

For Men, People, Problem, Time

“Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.”

Benjamin Spock (1903–1998) American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care

Source: Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior (1970), p. 103

Feeling, Idea

“Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Variant: Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Source: Fire from Within

Men, Feeling, Thinking

“I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Books, Study, Reading

“From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Soul, Personality

“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

As quoted in Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators (2004) by Dave Stone, p. 143

“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Fight

“If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.”

Orhan Pamuk book The Museum of Innocence

Source: The Museum of Innocence

Love, World, Beauty, Heart

“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

I.85
Source: Human, All Too Human (1878)

People

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Life, Life

“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations

§ 129
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Context: The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something — because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all. Unless that fact has at some time struck him. — And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful.

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Deep, Friendship, Relationship, Cute

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States

Mother's Day, For Parents, For Mother, Life

“The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.”

Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Marxist revolutionary from Russia

Country

“While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Past, Future

“I am so often accused of gloominess and melancholy. And I think I'm probably the most cheerful man around. I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

As quoted in "The Joking Troubadour of Gloom" in The Daily Telegraph (26 April 1993) http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/feb93.htm Context: I am so often accused of gloominess and melancholy. And I think I'm probably the most cheerful man around. I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin. … I think those descriptions of me are quite inappropriate to the gravity of the predicament that faces us all. I've always been free from hope. It's never been one of my great solaces. I feel that more and more we're invited to make ourselves strong and cheerful..... I think that it was Ben Jonson who said, I have studied all the theologies and all the philosophies, but cheerfulness keeps breaking through.

Feeling, Thinking, Waiting

“This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important—if not the most important—phenomena of modern capitalist economy”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

Source: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: Full Text of 1916 Edition

“You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman… I have been traveling over the old world during the last few years and have found new food for thought. What power is it that makes the Hindoo woman burn herself upon the funeral pyre of her husband? Her religion. What holds the Turkish woman in the harem? Her religion. By what power do the Mormons perpetuate their system of polygamy? By their religion/ Man, of himself, could not do this; but when he declares, 'Thus saith the Lord,' of course he can do it. So long as ministers stand up and tell us Christ is the head of the church, so is man the head of woman, how are we to break the chains which have held women down through the ages? You Christian women look at the Hindoo, the Turkish, the Mormon women, and wonder how they can be held in such bondage…

Now I ask you if our religion teaches the dignity of woman? It teaches us the abominable idea of the sixth century--Augustine's idea--that motherhood is a curse; that woman is the author of sin, and is most corrupt. Can we ever cultivate any proper sense of self-respect as long as women take such sentiments from the mouths of the priesthood?”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) Suffragist and Women's Rights activist

Women, Age, World, Religion

“Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”

Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.”

Christopher Pike book The Last Vampire

Source: The Last Vampire

Love, Thinking, Passion, Evil

“What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Life, Death, Fear, Birth

“One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Source: Sceptical Essays

Passion

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

Deep, People

“Of all things love is the most potent.”

Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician

Love

“Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

The Municipal Gallery Revisited http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1659/, st. 7 Last Poems (1936-1939) Variant: Think where man's glory most begins and ends. And say my glory was I had such friends. Context: You that would judge me, do not judge alone This book or that, come to this hallowed place Where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; Think where man's glory most begins and ends And say my glory was I had such friends.

For Men, Thinking

“Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?… Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

World, Fools, Way

“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.”

Anna Funder book All That I Am

Source: All That I Am

People, Imagination, Suffering

“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

People, Understanding

“My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.”

Michael H. Hart (1932) American astronomer

Muhammad
Source: About Muhammad, The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, p.3

Question, History, World, Success

“The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices

History, Suffering

“As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?”

Lemmy Kilmister (1945–2015) British singer-songwriter

Life, People, Sadness, Shoe

“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”

Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter

Music, Thinking, Sense

“What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked.
“I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said.
“Have you known me to lie before?”
“The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Truth, Lie, Lying, Thinking

“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.”

Emma Thompson (1959) British actress and writer

Life, People, Books, Thinking

“Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

People

“I dreamed about you baby.
It was just the other night.
Most of you was naked
Ah, but some of you was light.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Dreams, Light, Baby, Night

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.”

Louis Sachar (1954) American writer of children's books

Books, Feeling

“Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“Many of us lead family lives. At most, the members of a family stay together for the duration of a lifetime, often much less. While that fleeting moment of being together still lasts, we should try to remain in perfect harmony with each other, while observing the Dharma as much as possible. Night and day, let us turn our minds toward goodness, love, and compassion.”

Dilgo Khyentse (1910–1991) Bhutanese Buddhist Lama

Source: The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most

Love, Family, Perfection, Night

“Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

For Parents, People, World, Parent

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

From article "In Defense of Curiosity" appearing in The Saturday Evening Post 208 (August 24, 1935); 8-9, 64-66. As cited in What I Hope to Leave Behind, The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt Edited by Alida M. Black, p 20.
As quoted in Todays Health (October 1966)

Birth, Thinking

“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

Love, People

“The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Feeling, Hell, Dance

“For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.”

Iris Murdoch book Under the Net

Source: Under the Net

Truth, Silence

“We teach best what we most need to learn.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: You teach best what you most need to learn.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Learning

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Variant: i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Source: Eleven Minutes

World, Freedom

“Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.”

Richard Branson (1950) English business magnate, investor and philanthropist

Source: Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

Evil

“Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

Way

“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

Animals

“The ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Remarks to Future Farmers of America http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/072888c.htm (28 July 1988) 1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)

Help

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Books

“I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”

Louis Sachar (1954) American writer of children's books

Life

“As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

Understanding, Time

“History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity. It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.”

Yukio Mishima book The Decay of the Angel

Source: The Decay of the Angel

Truth, History

“The manner in which,, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

Source: Pensées

Life, Quotes

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

Bertrand Russell book The Conquest of Happiness

Source: 1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

Courageous, Wise, Happy, Life

“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.”

Bertrand Russell book A History of Western Philosophy

Source: A History of Western Philosophy

World, Science

“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Hope, Despair

“The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint. … I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way — things I had no words for.”

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist

1970 - 1986, Some Memories of Drawings (1976)
Context: It is surprising to me to see how many people separate the objective from the abstract. Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or a tree. It is lines and colours put together so that they say something. For me that is the very basis of painting. The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint. … I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way — things I had no words for.<!-- Also quoted in Georgia O’Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction (2007), edited by Richard Marshall, p. 13

Color, Way, Painting

“This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and to change what we see, it is sometimes necessary to change what we believe.”

Jeremy Narby (1959) Canadian anthropologist

Source: The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

Learning, Change

“Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”

Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

Source: The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

Travel, Home

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

William Shakespeare Richard III

Source: Richard III

Clothes

“… the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Quotes 2000s, 2004, Interview by Wallace Shawn, 2004 Context: You can find things in the traditional religions which are very benign and decent and wonderful and so on, but I mean, the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. The God of the Bible - not only did He order His chosen people http://www.bible.org/netbible/1sa15.htm to carry out literal genocide - I mean, wipe out every Amalekite to the last man, woman, child, and, you know, donkey and so on, because hundreds of years ago they got in your way when you were trying to cross the desert - not only did He do things like that, but, after all, the God of the Bible was ready to destroy every living creature on earth because some humans irritated Him. That's the story of Noah. I mean, that's beyond genocide - you don't know how to describe this creature. Somebody offended Him, and He was going to destroy every living being on earth? And then He was talked into allowing two of each species to stay alive - that's supposed to be gentle and wonderful.

Books

“Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light.”

Barbara Marciniak (1928–2012)

Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

Light

“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

People, World

“Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.”

Anna Freud (1895–1982) Austrian-British psychoanalyst & essayist

Beauty

“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Books, Hell

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Sec. 191
The Gay Science (1882)

Way

“You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."

"And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.”

Tamora Pierce book First Test

Source: First Test

Stupidity, Way, Personality

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Variant: People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

People

“I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”

Stephen King book Full Dark, No Stars

Source: Full Dark, No Stars

People

“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."
She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen.
"But I don't want anything else in the world.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

World, Smile, Beauty

“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf, given at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM, 29 Sep 2002. Speeches Source: War Talk

People, Color, Clothes, Dead

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