T Quotes
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“The most terrible thing of all is happy love, for then there is fear in everything.”
Source: Cosima Wagner's Diaries: 1869-1877
“The most terrible things can happen to a man, but he’ll never lose himself if he remembers he was once a child.”
Source: The Toymakers
“The most terrible things end, at last.”
Source: The Cyclades: Or, Life Among the Insular Greeks
“The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea”
“the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. ... You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.”
“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
“The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent”
“The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.”
Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat
“The most terrifying part was that the evil dwelling in those eyes could've gone unnoticed by many.”
Source: Alex
“The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.”
“The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.”
“The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.”
Source: The Map of the Sky: A Novel
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
“The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me.”
“The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
“The most thankful person is the most fully human.”
“The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter
“The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.”
Source: How To Sell Your Way Through Life
“The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.”
“The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.”
“The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.”
“The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as well as of our own; and to provide a convenient mode of rectifying their own errors, as future experience may unfold them.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all 'Damned Things' is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this 'Damned Thing' into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. The psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into their slots.”
“The most thought to keep in mind is that "players" gain money at the end of each game while "spectators" lose it for a ticket in order to see the gainful players display their skills. Don't you want to keep watching your dreams or you want to get on the run with them?”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
“The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.”
“The most thrilling thing about heaven is that Jesus Christ will be there. I will see Him face to face. Jesus Christ will meet us at the end of life's journey.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“The most time I spent home in 2009 was about a month.”
“The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.”
“The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.”
“The most tragic cause of social disharmony is when the speed with which people find mistakes of others outweighs their simple belief that they too are infallible!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.”
“The most tragic discovery is the perfect path discovered towards the end of life!”
“The most tragic journey for a person is the one she embarks on to realize her own big mistakes!”
“The most tragic moment of my life was the first show I ever designed for. I had been asked to make shoes for Ossie Clark's show in the early '70s. I was so inexperienced that I didn't put the steel in the heels of the shoes, which is required to support the shoe and the wearer. So the girls came out walking very strangely in these rubber, bendy high-heeled shoes I had made. I thought 'Oh dear god! This is the end of me.' But after the show, even David Hockney and Cecil Beaton said to me 'It was so interesting that the girls were moving in such a different way.'”
“The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.”
“The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however good that pleasure may be in itself, is always taken away from us. The things for which men strive hardly ever turn out to be as satisfying as they expected, and in the rare cases in which they do, sooner or later they are snatched away.... For the Christians, all those partial, broken and fleeting perfections which he glimpses in the world around him, which wither in his grasp and he snatches away from him even while the wither, are found again, perfect, complete and lasting in the absolute beauty of God.”
Source: Heaven
“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The most traitor person is the one who works against his nation.”
“The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.”
“The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and to ways of thinking that merely amplify superstition, self-deception, and conflict.”
“The most transgressive, the most taboo, the darkest act that could happen is a parent killing their own child.”
“the most traumatized are the ones who shape our culture like a microbiologist shapes clay on their lunch break after looking at too many cultures,' the skunk explained.”
Source: A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites
“The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.”
“The most treasured asset in investment management is a steady hand at the tiller.”
“The most treasured possession of an evolved human is a quiet mind.”
“The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters,
in all centuries and in all the arts.”
“The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.”
Source: The Works of John Owen
“The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.”