T Quotes
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“The most extreme types, like Murray Rothbard, are at least honest. They'd like to eliminate highway taxes because they force you to pay for a road you may never drive on. As an alternative, they suggest that if you and I want to get somewhere, we should build a road there and charge people tolls on it. Just try generalizing that. Such a society couldn't survive, and even if it could, it would be so full of terror and hate that any human being would prefer to live in hell.”
Source: How the World Works
“The most extreme weather I have experienced was on top of high altitude mountain summits at astronomical observatories.”
“The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.”
“The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.”
Source: Human Work
“The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
“The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.”
“THE MOST FAMILIAR wedding rituals can transform themselves into meaningful traditions when it’s your wedding. The tossing of the bouquet, dancing with relatives you haven’t seen in years, the achingly embarrassing toasts…I wanted it all, and I loved every minute of this Christmas wedding.”
“The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.”
“The most famous living artist in America is Andy Warhol, unfortunately.”
“The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.”
“The most famous room in the palace—for a time the most famous room in Russia—was the Empress’s mauve boudoir. Everything in it was mauve: curtains, carpet, pillows; even the furniture was mauve-and-white Hepplewhite. Masses of fresh white and purple lilacs, vases of roses and orchids and bowls of violets perfumed the air. Tables and shelves were cluttered with books, papers and porcelain and enamel knicknacks. In this room, Alexandra surrounded herself with mementoes of her family and her religion. The walls were covered with icons. Over her chaise-longue hung a picture of the Virgin Mary. A portrait of her mother, Princess Alice, looked down from another wall. On a table in a place of honor stood a large photograph of Queen Victoria. The only portrait in the room other than religious and family pictures was a portrait of Marie Antoinette.”
Source: Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
“The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you he owes much if not most of his success to omnivorous reading. Forbes is one of his favorite publications. How closely he reads it can be gathered from a letter just received from him in which he asks the editor to forward a long analytical letter to the writer of a series of articles which contained two figures Mr. Edison questions, and he wants to know exactly on what authority or investigation they were based. Both letters were the product of Mr. Edison and were signed by him.”
“The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood.”
Source: Woman and the New Race
“The most fascinating destinations don’t lay on the cusp of some ever-distant horizon. Rather, they lie in a place well on this side of every horizon…our hearts.”
“The most fascinating details are often hiding in plain sight... it's remarkably easy to look directly at something without truly seeing it.”
Source: The Observation Effect: See What 99% of People Miss and Reshape Your Reality
“The most fascinating myths are the ones that are not.”
“The most fascinating part of movies is the organism of the movie - it's such a bizarre thing to do, to make a movie. To see these people come together, band in unity, to create this thing that almost doesn't exist. It only exists because it's projected on a screen, but other than that, it's an illusion.”
“The most fascinating people, those who made a mark on this Earth, who changed history and culture are always those who were a little different.”
“The most fascinating person I have met so far is indeed Mr. Hugh Hefner. An incredible man!”
“The most fascinating revelation is that humanity can tune into a consistently higher frequency through the power of peace and inner stillness.”
Source: The Mystery of Belief: How to Manifest Your Dreams
“The most fascinating thing in this world is turning your fantasies into everyday life, merging their intricate blueprint with the pattern of the real world, and redrawing your destiny in alignment with your dreams.”
Source: Once Upon a Time in Portugal
“The most fascinating thing in this world is turning your fantasies into everyday life, merging their intricate blueprint with the pattern of the real world, and redrawing your destiny in alignment with your dreams. The most fascinating thing in this world is turning your fantasies into everyday life, merging their intricate blueprint with the pattern of the real world, and redrawing your destiny in alignment with your dreams.”
Source: Once Upon a Time in Portugal
“The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there’s arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there.”
“The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this; with it she is triumphant.”
Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings
“The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.”
Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes
“The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.”
Source: Once Around the Sun
“The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake.”
“The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed”
Source: The Will to Power
“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don’t belong.”
“The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.”
“The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.”
Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke
“The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities.... The most fearful event of these times is the colossal expansion of the government of the United States and the constant increase of executive power within the government.”
“The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.”
Source: Les Misérables: Fantine
“The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation. It is only the wealthy that can, to any great degree, even now, indulge the unnatural craving for dead flesh, and they pay for the greater licence of privilege, by subjection to supernumerary diseases.”
Source: A Vindication of Natural Diet: Being One in a Series of Notes to Queen Mab
“The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.”
“The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.”
Source: Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
“The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.”
“The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.”
Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897
“The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.”
“The most flattering spin I can put on this phase of paradoxes and metaphysical tangles is that I was smart enough, at age fourteen, to destroy any fledgling hypothesis I came up with. A tentative explanation, theory, or formulation would pop up in my brain only to be attacked by what amounted to a kind of logical immune system, bent on eliminating all that was weak or defective. Which is to say that my mind had become a scene of furious predation, littered with the half-eaten corpses of vast theories and brilliant syntheses.”
Source: Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
“The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.”
Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms.”
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.”
“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.”
“The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.”
“The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.”
“The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.”
Source: Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College