T Quotes
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“The most silent battles are fought between the lines of a book.”
“The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“The most simple and mundane things can take on deep and memorable dimensions depending on where we are, or with whom, or any number of things.”
Source: Adjustments
“The most simple things can bring the most happiness.”
“The most simple way to stay encouraged is to feed your heart on what He is doing, not on what He hasn't done. If you can't see what He is doing, feed on what He has done in the past.”
“The most simplified answer to all questions is LOVE.”
“The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.”
“The most sincere form of love is love for food”
“The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.”
“The most sinister of all taxes is the inflation tax and it is the most regressive. It hits the poor and the middle class. When you destroy a currency by creating money out of thin air to pay the bills, the value of the dollar goes down, and people get hit with a higher cost of living. It's the middle class that's being wiped out. It is most evil of all taxes.”
“The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.”
“The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him”
“The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.”
“The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.”
“The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.”
Source: Leopardi: Poems and Prose
“The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.”
“The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.”
“the most sophisticated form of denial is ‘normalization’. the intolerable becomes ‘no longer news’ and people invest in ‘not having an inquiring mind about these matters’.”
Source: AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.”
Source: Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
“The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.”
“The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked
was Paul McCartney.”
“The most sophisticated software in existence is tasked with figuring out how to keep you from leaving a website.”
Source: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“The most spectacular successes arise from those sacred dreams that have been repeatedly bludgeoned by their critics and who’s refusal to fall bludgeons the critics.”
“The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but, instead, computes the logarithm of 11 each time it is needed), Johnny didn't bother to remember things. He computed them. You asked him a question, and if he didn't know the answer, he thought for three seconds and would produce and answer.”
“The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history.”
“The most spiritual atheist and the most deconstructed religious believer find themselves in a similar place.”
Source: No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
“The most spiritual human beings, if we assume that they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but just for that reason they honor life because it pits its greatest opposition against them.
18 On the "intellectual conscience." — Nothing seems rarer to me today than genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that the soft air of our culture is insalubrious for this plant. Hypocrisy belongs in the ages of strong faith when, even though constrained to display another faith, one did not abandon one's own faith. Today one does abandon it; or, even more commonly, one adds a second faith — and in either case one remains honest. Without a doubt, a very much greater number of convictions is possible today than formerly: "possible" means permissible, which means harmless. This begets tolerance toward oneself.
Tolerance toward oneself permits several convictions and they get along with each other: they are careful, like all the rest of the world, not to compromise themselves. How does one compromise oneself today? If one is consistent. If one proceeds in a straight line. If one is not ambiguous enough to permit five conflicting interpretations. If one is genuine.
I fear greatly that modern man is simply too comfortable for some vices, so that they die out by default. All evil that is a function of a strong will — and perhaps there is no evil without strength of will — degenerates into virtue in our tepid air. The few hypocrites whom I have met imitated hypocrisy: like almost every tenth person today, they were actors.”
“The most spiritual human beings, if we suppose that they are the most
courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but for this
very reason they honor life, because it opposes them with all the force of
its opposition.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.”
“The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The most spiritual people I’ve ever met were not “givers” they were communicators. You don’t give people crumbs. You give them the whole piece of bread when that is what they are asking for, in order to be healed. Christ was never about hiding behind a Facebook page, an email, a prayer circle, a bible, or a church. He was about talking, listening and healing-- face to face. He walked among sinners and ate with them. He devoted his time to people that were brokenhearted, difficult to like and fake as the religious beliefs they clung to. So, why is it that so many people profess to believe in Christ, yet they have forgotten what real love is----communicating?”
“The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when youre being very real, when youre not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and whats morally right or ethically right.”
“The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.”
“The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his boats are burned.”
Source: Max
“The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.”
“The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.”
Source: Motivation and Personality
“The most starstruck I've been is when I met Sol Campbell when he was a Tottenham Hotspur player. I don't get starstruck by actors I work with, because you have some sort of relationship with them. Like, I worked with Tom Cruise [on Interview With The Vampire], so if I saw him again I'd speak to him as an actor. Although he might not be interested in talking to me.”
“The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.”
“The most startling part was that, if he recalled correctly, the DuMarins' medieval ancestor was none other than Valerian the Alchemist--- the same dark wizard who had laid the Kilburn Curse upon his family.
This heritage would've made Kate practically royalty among the Prometheans---and could make her all the more dangerous to him. For beyond superstition, the girl seemed uniquely suited to enchant him.”
Source: My Dangerous Duke
“The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity.”
Source: Selected writings of Hermann von Helmholtz
“The most staunchly determined are but quitters of the right things.”
“The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.”
Source: Bowen's Court
“The most stimulants I have taken in life were during my extreme night shifts to keep me awake.”
“The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.”
Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
“The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.”
“The most straight seems curved.”
“The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of say, three, and then have some miraculous storage solution, so that not only over the 24-hour day but over long periods of time where the wind doesn't blow, you have reliable energy. That's a path. But energy storage is hard. That's not a guaranteed path.”
“The most stressful and difficult part of steering a large movie is that you are taking on the responsibility of communicating with a very wide audience. You can't ever hide behind the notion of, 'Okay, they just don't get it,' or, 'Certain people just don't get it.' You have to be mindful of the size of your audience, and you have to communicate in a way that lets them in.”
“The most stressful cause, is dealing with jerks.”