T Quotes
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“The most active people in the country know different things, and because each one tends to hear mostly and deal mostly with people with whom they agree, they are reinforced not simply in the conviction that they are right, which is totally appropriate, but that they are the majority. So you have both sides, the Left and the Right, thinking that the majority of the country is really with them.”
“The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.”
“The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging or scrubbing. The colour stays where it is put.”
“The most adorable thing about Toronto is that she remains fiercely aloof and indifferent to the fads and entrepreneurial fevers of her lovers. She is intractably herself, admissive to the most vagrant, sober in a way that gets misinterpreted as stodginess. Her generosity extends to the meek as well as the gold diggers. Mercifully, she doesn't give a hoot about our portraits of her, but just waits, patiently, for our affection and citizenship.”
“The most advanced and powerful weapons in your possession are your positive thoughts.”
Source: Quantraz
“The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.”
“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.”
Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters
“The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.”
Source: Discover Your Genius: How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds
“The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul.”
“The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.”
“The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.”
Source: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
“The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: The sermons of Mr. Yorick
“The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.”
“The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.”
“The most aggressive views governing this country speak a lot about inclusion. We still have some people in this country who don't really get that we all have the same agenda, aspirations, hopes, and fears. I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.”
“The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.”
“The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.”
“The most agreeable thing in life is worthy accomplishment. It is not possible that the idle tramp is as contented as the farmers along the road who own their own farms, and whose credit is good at the bank in town. When the tramps get together at night, they abuse the farmers, but do not get as much satisfaction out of it as do the farmers who abuse the tramps. The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.”
“The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.”
Source: Silent Spring
“The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.”
Source: Silent Spring
“The most alarming part of this is not our bad habits, which we tend to know about. It's our collective assimilation, which is invisible to us.
As Annie Dillard says, "How we spend our days is of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard (p. 15)”
Source: The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
“The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.”
Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays
“The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.”
“the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.”
Source: A Window Over the Sink
“The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.”
“The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.”
Source: Blindsight
“The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.”
“The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.”
Source: The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov
“The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.”
“The most amazing feeling I feel
Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real
Maybe I paint the sky blue
My greatest creation was you.”
“The most amazing lightning I have seen has been at high altitude astronomical observatories. Watching a nearby tree being hit by lightning is an impressive sight and the explosion of sound is awesome!”
“The most amazing miracle of every New Year is this: In the New Year, as if great things will always happen to us! Here, the New Year makes us taste this wonderful feeling and this feeling gives us power!”
“The most amazing miracle of every New Year is this: In the New Year, great things will always happen to us! Here, the New Year makes us taste this wonderful feeling and this feeling gives us power!”
“The most amazing moments are when something horrible is about to happen or has just happened. The iceberg falling into the ocean. That aching moment. You can see the pieces, you can see how they fit together, but you can't put them back together.”
“The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.”
“The most amazing speeches are a mix of fear, expertise, and practice.”
“The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability.”
“The most amazing thing about the winter is that even a frozen world may be perceived as a heaven!”
“The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.”
“The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after the game had already started.”
“The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.”
“The most amazing thing that can ever happen to you in life- is finding yourself in your comfort zone”
“The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.”
“The most amazing travellers were to humble to write about it”
“The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.”
“The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.”
“The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.”
Source: Totem and Taboo
“The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for to be true means only to perform this marriage-function.”
“The most and the greatest of man's powers are as yet little known to him, and are scarcely more under his control than the weather: he cannot keep a shop with- out trusting somewhat to his unknown powers, nor can he write books except such as are no books. It appears to have been Pater's chief fault, or the cause of his faults, that he trusted those powers too little.”
Source: Walter Pater