All Quotes

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
‐‐ Barney Frank

For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.
‐‐ Shari Arison

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

For most of my life, I've been in a hurry.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that's running on principles that we don't even understand.
‐‐ Reggie Watts

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.
‐‐ Nikki Giovanni

For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
‐‐ Dan Webster

For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.
‐‐ Athol Fugard

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
‐‐ Harry Browne

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
‐‐ Rand Paul

For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.
‐‐ Jennifer Lee

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.
‐‐ Mike Davidson

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
‐‐ Sam Altman

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
‐‐ Ann Druyan

For most of the Latinos in our nation, merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable would mean one company controlling their window to the world of culture and entertainment.
‐‐ Tony Cardenas

For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.
‐‐ Paul Goldberger

For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.
‐‐ Perry Chen

For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too.
‐‐ Ryan Hall

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
‐‐ Andrew Young

For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough for people to play in our worlds with any frequency. The problem for us is getting people to read and care about our books that much in the first place.
‐‐ Catherynne M. Valente

For most of us, no matter how slim, middle-aged spread really does set in, and your waist thickens, irrespective of whether you've had children or if you exercise regularly.
‐‐ Marie Helvin

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti

For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.
‐‐ John Ortberg

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
‐‐ Giles Duley

For most part, the rule of thumb is pretty much you're going to race guys hard the last quarter of the race and for sure the last run of the day. You're still going to give and take until that last pit stop.
‐‐ Tony Stewart

For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.
‐‐ Jane McGonigal

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.
‐‐ Guy Spier

For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.
‐‐ Julia Cameron

For most people, it's easy to be passionate about things that are working out, and that distorts our impression of the importance of passion. I've been involved in several dozen business ventures over the course of my life, and each one made me excited at the start. You might even call it passion.
‐‐ Scott Adams

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.
‐‐ Brian Greene

For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I've earned slightly more wealth.' I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.
‐‐ Dustin Moskovitz

For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.
‐‐ Alex Steffen

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
‐‐ Richard H. Baker

For most teenage runners, the right foods means a varied diet, decreasing the amount of fat found in the typical American diet and replacing those calories with carbohydrates. Avoid saturated fats, such as those found in fried foods, and eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables.
‐‐ Don Kardong

For most, the largest asset is their home. This becomes a sentimental issue, I know, but if you're holding on to a home that you can no longer afford - or you need the liquidity - you need to think about solutions. One might be to bring in a tenant or roommate; a more drastic measure is to sell the home and downsize.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky

For most western executives, innovation is about breakthrough technology or innovation. If it's not breakthrough, it's not interesting, and it's all about technology and products.
‐‐ John Hagel III

For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
‐‐ Louise Slaughter

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
‐‐ Deborah Tannen

For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
‐‐ Katharine Anthony