All Quotes

Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.
‐‐ Bob Inglis

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
‐‐ Octavia Butler

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
‐‐ Sam Walton

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
‐‐ Tobias Wolff

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.
‐‐ Jewel

Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary of how God works with the specific things that He does, and we don't know how to align ourselves with what He is doing so that we can be His vehicle on the earth to deliver a miracle.
‐‐ Bruce Wilkinson

Most of us don't think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting 'comedic' accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.
‐‐ Julian Fellowes

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
‐‐ Andy Rooney

Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
‐‐ David Shuster

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.
‐‐ Thich Nhat Hanh

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it.
‐‐ David Rose

Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.
‐‐ Issey Miyake

Most of us function under the model we have to get something in order to do something, in order to be something. If this happens, then I will be happy. And I'm suggesting to you that we live our entire lives based on that model, and that model is fundamentally flawed.
‐‐ Srikumar Rao

Most of us get our history through story.
‐‐ Yann Martel

Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip to the arcade. And as time moves on, that line of nostalgia will keep moving forward where 'Frogger' gets replaced with 'Street Fighter 2' or 'Resident Evil 4.'
‐‐ Rob Manuel

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

Most of us have been in that situation where you've been falling in love with somebody who didn't feel the same way. It's not a nice situation.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.
‐‐ Shakti Gawain

Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.
‐‐ Gayle Forman

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
‐‐ Dale Carnegie

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.
‐‐ Homaro Cantu

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Most of us have jobs that require some handling of other peoples' feelings and our own, and in that sense, we are all partly flight attendants.
‐‐ Arlie Russell Hochschild

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

Most of us have not heard about Master Limited Partnerships. These special financing arrangements allow oil and gas investors to avoid paying certain corporate income taxes, but are not available to clean energy businesses.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.
‐‐ Astro Teller

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
‐‐ Barbara Walters

Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
‐‐ Steven Pressfield

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.
‐‐ Steven Seagal

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.
‐‐ Ken Wilber

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.
‐‐ Pearl Cleage

Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.
‐‐ Jane Pauley

Most of us know nothing about constitutional law, so it's hardly surprising that we take sides in the Obamacare debate the way we root for the Red Sox or the Yankees. Loyalty to the team is what matters.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
‐‐ Peter Marshall

Most of us know that the hormone melatonin helps regulate our sleep. But it also seems to play another role - suppressing cancer growth.
‐‐ Michael Greger

Most of us know when we are about to react emotionally. We can feel it. Often there is a brief warning before the amygdala hijack. For some of us, it is butterflies in the stomach; for some, it is an increased heart rate, and for others, it is a feeling of agitation.
‐‐ Elizabeth Thornton

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.
‐‐ John Eldredge

Most of us live in a safe world. We don't have to fight for our values, we don't have to fight for our freedom, we don't have a sense of injustice.
‐‐ Alan J. Pakula

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
‐‐ Alan Ball

Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.
‐‐ Helen Fisher