T Quotes
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“The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.”
Source: The Life of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: Together with a Number of His Humorous, Moral, and Literary Essays, Chiefly in the Manner of The Spectator
“The most trivial things create the most critical complications in any execution.”
Source: How Leaders Decide: Tackling Biases and Risks in Decision Making
“The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.”
Source: The Ordeal of Change
“The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.”
“The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No, they are ones that leave you free to stand alone on your own solid ground, leave him to do the same, a tender space between you.”
Source: Stay
“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”
Source: Caddie Woodlawn's Family
“The most trusted and loyal friendships in your life, will always be your oldest and longest friendships.”
“The most trying fools are the bright ones.”
“The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.”
Source: The Girl In The Cellar
“The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.”
“The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races.”
“The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.”
Source: The Winning of the West
“The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent”
“The most unacknowledged spending expectation among women is the amount of time spent by single mothers caring for children, not only physically, but psychologically. It is my feeling that only a small percentage of a mother's time is normally compensated for by child support, given what a woman could make adding these hours to workforce hours. It is why women who have never been married and never had children earn so much more in the workplace than women who have had children.”
“The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.”
“The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.”
“The most unbearable type of anger is a woman’s; do anything to avoid it” - Jack’s Rules”
Source: Three Jack Reacher Novellas: Deep Down, Second Son, High Heat, and Jack Reacher's Rules
“The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.”
“The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.”
“The most underestimated aspect of human suffering or pain is that it helps us to grow. As long as we are not willing to feel pain we will always be trapped in suffering.”
Source: YOU ARE THE CREATOR: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Self Mastery and Healing
“The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.”
Source: 99 Fables
“The most underrated player in NBA history is Dominique Wilkins. Right behind him is Gary Payton. He never has gotten the respect he deserves. If he doesn't spend the rest of his days in Seattle, I hope he goes someplace where he has a chance to win a title.”
“The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.”
Source: The Realm of Possibility
“The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.”
“The most underutilized resource in all of health care is the patient.”
“The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.”
Source: The Gay Science
“The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“The most unexpected provocation is unprovoked.”
“The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.”
“The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.”
“The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.”
“The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves.”
“The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their ‘self.’ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly.”
“The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.”
Source: You learn by living
“The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.”
“The most unhygienic thing that I observed during my time in very high altitude astronomy was dozens of workers all sharing the same oxygen administration mask for treating their daily oxygen starvation sicknesses.”
“The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.”
“The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.”
“The most uninteresting thing for me is when somebody thinks too much about how they put themselves together.”
“The most unique thing about music making is sharing.”
“The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.”
Source: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Of the Rights of People
“The most universal quality is diversity.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.”
Source: Knowing God
“The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice”
“The most unlikely person can alter the course of history.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“The most unliterary reader of all sticks to 'the news'. He reads daily, with unwearied relish, how, in some place he has never seen, under circumstances which never become quite clear, someone he doesn't know has married, rescued, robbed, raped, or murdered someone else he doesn't know.”
Source: An Experiment in Criticism
“The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.”
Source: Wealth of Words