All Quotes

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.
‐‐ Jo Brand

Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks.
‐‐ Jake Halpern

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.
‐‐ James E. Faust

Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. Until something goes wrong, we barely give them thought. This seems strange to me. How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies?
‐‐ Mary Roach

Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.
‐‐ Robert A. Dahl

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.
‐‐ Herbert Simon

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.
‐‐ Julian Barnes

Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
‐‐ Patricia Ireland

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
‐‐ Fred Allen

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.
‐‐ Marilu Henner

Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
‐‐ Robert Collier

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

Most of us understand what healthy food is - it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that vegetables are good for you and that sugar is bad. So you need to use the things you do know and follow them.
‐‐ Jessie Pavelka

Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.
‐‐ Andy Stanley

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.
‐‐ Rick Warren

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.
‐‐ Martin Parr

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
‐‐ Althea Gibson

Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.
‐‐ Luis Walter Alvarez

Most of us who have healthy eyesight are extremely attached to our vision, often without being conscious that we are. We depend heavily on our eyes, and yet we rarely give them a second thought. I, at least, am this way. The physical world is almost hyper-vivid to me.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.
‐‐ Jamais Cascio

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.
‐‐ Clare Short

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'
‐‐ Leila Janah

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.
‐‐ Polly Berrien Berends

Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
‐‐ Dan Lipinski

Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that it's OK, that you're not isolated and broken, that this is part of the human challenge, and that there is hope. The capacity for online interactions to do that is powerful.
‐‐ Ze Frank

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
‐‐ Eduardo Galeano

Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it.
‐‐ Tom Berenger

Most of what Hawaii has to offer is no secret. Pipeline is probably the most famous wave in the world.
‐‐ Kelly Slater

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
‐‐ Dave Van Ronk

Most of what I've learnt is too personal or controversial to share, but nevertheless, experiences have helped me understand things better and have been necessary for what my journey in future will be.
‐‐ Tena Desae

Most of what I've proposed in Congress grew out of issues raised with me back here in Connecticut.
‐‐ Elizabeth Esty

Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.
‐‐ Ian Anderson

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.
‐‐ Nick Clegg

Most of what one feels compelled to write stems from a deep emotional uncertainty.
‐‐ Antonya Nelson

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
‐‐ Peter Drucker

Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.
‐‐ Daniel H. Pink

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.
‐‐ Roone Arledge

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.
‐‐ Judy Collins

Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business.
‐‐ Dave Goldberg

Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.
‐‐ Jim Fowler

Most of who's left in the administration now are all these yes men and fanboys who were van drivers or press flacks for Barack Obama in Iowa and New Hampshire in 2008.
‐‐ Tom Cotton