Most Quotes
- Page 29Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.
Honor Blackman
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
E. O. Wilson
In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.
Charles E. Wilson
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe
But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.
Sienna Miller
One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.
D. L. Hughley
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
Germaine Greer
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell
To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.
Marco Rubio
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
John Conyers
When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
Carly Fiorina
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Margaret Drabble
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Eileen Caddy
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
Bill Frist
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
Madeleine Albright
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Courtney Love
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
Alfred de Musset
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Jonathan Edwards
The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.
Billy Corgan