Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals’ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Earnings don’t move the overall market; it’s the Federal Reserve Board… focus on the central banks, and focus on the movement of liquidity… most people in the market are looking for earnings and conventional measures. It’s liquidity that moves markets.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
In our personal and professional lives, we are constantly hit with one adversity after the other, most of which we have no control over. But the four things we have total control over is how we react, how we adapt, how we breathe, and how we take action.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.
The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
If we can’t begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
We really have the most beautiful planet in our solar system. None other can sustain life like we know it. None other has blue water and white clouds covering colorful landmasses filled with thriving, beautiful, living things like human beings.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
All over the world, independent and strong civil society – NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates – help governments solve problems and better serve their people better by shining a light on the issues that matter most – like education standards, access to healthcare, the rule of law, and economic opportunity.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God’s light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.
I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?
I’ve found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.
When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.
I tell my daughter every morning, ‘Now, what are the two most important parts of you?’ And she says, ‘My head and my heart.’ Because that’s what I’ve learned in the foxhole: What gets you through life is strength of character and strength of spirit and love.
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
What I’ve never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who’s happy and is always smiling.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.
