T Quotes
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“The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.”
“The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.”
“The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.”
Source: The Winter's Tale: Third Series
“The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.”
“The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.”
“The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.”
Source: Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints
“The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.”
“The most perfect gift you can give to a silent corner of the world is silence!”
“The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.”
Source: The Great Adventure of Michelangelo: An Abridged Illustrated Edition of The Agony and the Ecstasy
“The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody, to Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', for instance. You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, even farther.”
“The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”
Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects
“The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.”
“The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.”
Source: A treatise on government: translated from the Greek of Aristotle
“The most perfect society is that whose purpose
is the universal and supreme happiness.”
“The most perfect solitude must entail the absence of all beings, but it must also tremble with the light of life. For example, a perfect solitude may find itself haunted by lives born of the imagination, characters lying on shelves in rows of books, or accompanied by figures waiting in dreams. The perfect solitude pushes one to sense the pulse of solitude itself; for example, a perfect solitude may be marked with the beat of one’s heart.”
Source: The Little Queen
“The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.”
Source: The Craftsman's Handbook
“The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.”
“The most perfect thing about achieving something very difficult is to give other people this provocative feeling: If he is doing, why can’t we?”
“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.”
Source: Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy, Revolution, and Society
“The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.”
“The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.”
Source: The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author
“The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax cut, it will be a national welfare program, guaranteeing a majority of American households an annual check to 'refund' taxes they never paid. And it will eliminate the need for about 20% of American households to pay income taxes, lifting the proportion that need not do so to a majority of the voting population.”
“The most persevering becomes the most talented.”
“The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.”
“The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.”
“The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.”
“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.”
“The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.”
“The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.”
“The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.”
“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.”
“The most plagiarised word in this world is plagiarism.”
Source: Slate
“The most pleasant and pure feeling is to live with a sense of being part of the Motherland, because exactly this feeling spares [us] from loneliness.”
“The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.”
“The most pleasant surprise is to get lost in the beauty of life.”
“The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.”
Source: Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco
“The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.”
“The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The most poignant image of all is one she only notices as she takes another turn and gazes at the ceiling. In a single patch of blue sky, a solitary gap in the dense canopy, she sees the outline of a familiar bird: a sparrowhawk flying free. She smiles to see it, remembering that first day with Jack in their woodland cathedral.
It's then that she realizes, finally, what the room represents. It isn't just a playful depiction of their woodland place, a triumph of the mastery of illusion. This painted room is something else entirely. It is a declaration of love. It is a veiled tribute to their love affair- a depiction of the most precious moments they have shared, laid out in a secret code only she will understand. Lillian spins around, astounded, drinking it all in.”
Source: The Peacock Summer
“The most poisonous source in any kitchen is a chef's ego.”
“The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is political...And the most politically indoctrinating thing you can do to a human being is to show him, every day, that there can be no change.”
“The most political thing you can do is be yourself”
“The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.”
Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)