T Quotes
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“The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.”
“The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.”
Source: The Second Sex
“The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.”
“The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.”
“The most memorable horror stories force us to confront our own inhumanity and thereby make us grateful for our humanity.”
“The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives)”
“The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.”
“The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.”
“The most memorable people are the ones who don't remind me of anyone else.”
“The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.”
“The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.”
“The most memorably photos are layered, in good light, and have something really ineresting going on in them. If you can get all three elements into a single frame, now you're talking.”
“The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.”
Source: The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
“The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
Source: The Call of Cthulhu
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
“The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
“The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.”
Source: Killosophy
“The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.”
Source: Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition
“The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot down my throat and catapulted me into a world called sane.”
“The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.”
“The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed
“The most miserable man in the world of those meant for Paradise will be dipped once in Paradise. Then he will be asked, "Son of Adam, did you ever face any misery? Did you ever experience any hardship?" So he will say, "No, by God, O Lord! I never faced any misery, and I never experienced any hardship."”
“The most miserable man in this room tonight is the Christian who is not right with Him.”
“The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.”
“The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.”
“The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.”
Source: Live Like a King
“The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts become shackled, our emotions are chained, the will is almost paralyzed. But when we show mercy, all of these bonds are broken, and we enter into a joyful liberty that frees us to share God's love with others.”
“The most misrepresented value today is certainly the value of liberty. […] for a hundred years a society of merchants made an exclusive and unilateral use of liberty, looking upon it as a right rather than as a duty, and did not fear to use an ideal liberty, as often as it could, to justify a very real oppression. As a result, is there anything surprising in the fact that such a society asked art to be, not an instrument of liberation, but an inconsequential exercise and a mere entertainment?”
“The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.”
“The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?”
Source: France and England in North America: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe
“The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say tyrannical, two-party system. We have the Republicans and we have the Democrats, and we have almost no one else, no other strictly political aggregate that amounts to a corporal's guard in the struggle for power.”
Source: Parties and Politics in America
“The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.”
Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“The most morally troubling thing about slaughtering chickens is that it stops bring morally troubling after some time.”
“The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends nor therapists; not even in rehab when we were detailing our own personal spirals of shame did I confess. It is this: I am a graduate of the Barbizon School of Modeling.”
Source: Magical Thinking: True Stories
“The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.”
Source: The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia
“The most moving scene for me in 'Pride and Prejudice' is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy's sister from embarrassment and confusion, and as the music plays on, Darcy's look of gratitude becomes a look of love, which we see reciprocated in Elizabeth's eyes.”
“The most moving speech I have ever heard was Hugh Gaitskell saying he would 'fight, fight and fight again to save the party we love. That was the right message in 1960, and I believe it is still the right message today.”
“The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.”
“The most naive is sometimes the most knowing. It happens.”
Source: Les miserables
“The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.”
“The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.”
“The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.”
“The most natural way you would attempt to cope with something inside you that is affecting your moods and your energy levels is to intervene with chemicals to help and because medical science hasn't come up with pharmaceuticals that do particularly well you tend to reach for the chemicals that are outside the Pharma counter, i.e. narcotics and alcohol because they can guarantee your mood more or less.”
“The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.”
Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
“The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.”
“The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.”
“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.”