Most Quotes
- Page 46It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Samuel Butler
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
William Hazlitt
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.
Marilyn Manson
What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.
Henry Louis Gates
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.
William Butler Yeats
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.
Norah Jones
Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.
Amanda Seyfried
The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.
George W. Bush
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
Jeff Foxworthy
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
Robert Morgan
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Billy Joel
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel Johnson
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Doug Coupland
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
Karl Lagerfeld
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell