All Quotes

The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
‐‐ Bashar al-Assad

The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.
‐‐ Lev Vygotsky

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
‐‐ Izabella Scorupco

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
‐‐ Victor Garber

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.
‐‐ Robert Duvall

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
‐‐ Jim Henson

The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
‐‐ Xavier Niel

The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

The most special Slam is Wimbledon, of course. But where I feel the best is Melbourne. And you're happy that you're playing. When you get to the middle of the season, everything is week after week, and it's all routine. But when it's Melbourne in January, you are fresh and you want to play. It's nice.
‐‐ Marin Cilic

The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner

The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right.
‐‐ Meredith Brooks

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
‐‐ Denis Waitley

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'
‐‐ Tim Jackson

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
‐‐ C. L. R. James

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.
‐‐ Paul Wolfowitz

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.
‐‐ Meles Zenawi

The most stupid religion is Islam.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq

The most stylish country in the world is Italy.
‐‐ Nick Rhodes

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
‐‐ Lee Iacocca

The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.
‐‐ Marcus Brigstocke

The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.
‐‐ Carol Bartz

The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.
‐‐ Cynthia P. Schneider

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell

The most successful entrepreneurs in the world have a combination of the right type of personality and fortunate life circumstance. A lot of them have been doing it most of their life.
‐‐ Adeo Ressi

The most successful entrepreneurs tell you they have a great team. Lots of small-business owners let ego get in the way. Many people helped me along the way. You've got to remember the people who were loyal to you, and don't forget them when you become successful.
‐‐ Bill Rancic

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
‐‐ Bruce Feiler

The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foodie and to the lay diner at the same time.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was China's golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by today's standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in 'barbarians' from the steppe.
‐‐ Amy Chua

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
‐‐ Pierre Bourdieu

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
‐‐ Andrew Sullivan

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
‐‐ Alexander Graham Bell

The most successful people are so original.
‐‐ Idina Menzel

The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.
‐‐ Ron Ben-Israel

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate tries to run as something they aren't simply because the strategy dictates it.
‐‐ Chuck Todd

The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'
‐‐ Iggy Pop

The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
‐‐ Mallory Ortberg

The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. They hated Catholics, Jews, and blacks. They were prone to violence.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.
‐‐ Henry James Sumner Maine

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.
‐‐ Diane Cilento

The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one.
‐‐ Christina Baker Kline

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
‐‐ Northrop Frye

The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
‐‐ Jonathan Winters