Top 1200 Most Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.

You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.

It's our potential for good stuff I'm most interested in exploring, but that has most meaning when juxtaposed with things that can go wrong.

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

He who know most grieves most for wasted time.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention And especially if it's given from the heart. When people are talking, there's no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don't value ourselves or our love enough to know this.

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

The most thankful person is the most fully human.

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order.

If I've learned anything from social media, it's truly that the most irrelevant people always say the most absurd stuff.

Every time something happens, whether I've won the most or lost the most, there's always 'oldest' tied to it. It's not a surprise anymore.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

I'm the most underrated, most hated, greatest of all time.

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.

Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

The soul who is most untouched is the most like to God.

The devil's in most people. Not me, mind you, but most.

Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most important and indispensable factor for all growth and development. It is in the tranquility and quiet of the night that the seed slowly sprouts from under the soil. The bud opens in the depth of the most silent hours. So also, in a state of peace and love, people evolve, grow in their distinctive culture, and develop perfect civilization.

When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

If you want the most reward you have to take the most risk.

Whoever has the most at stake should have the most power.

It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.

Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, space, identity, resemblance, substance, property, fact, event, composition, possibility, etc., are the most fundamental concepts. Thus metaphysics is the most fundamental theoretical discipline.

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people. I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.

The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

Honestly, I think most directors are about, 'Let's do the most fun and effective thing here and figure out how afterwards.'

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.

Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.

The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the copy.

I'm a lot more sensitive about music, I think, than most other guys in this particular side of the business. Most of them are beat crazy and beat heavy. I'm more melody. I'm more musical than most of the other ones.

You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.

Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.

The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which we can learn the most.

I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.