Most Quotes

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.