The most important days in your life are the day you were born........and the day you find out why.
- Mark Twain
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
- Lascelles Abercrombie
It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.
- John Abizaid
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
- Floyd Abrams
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.
- Chinua Achebe
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
- Dean Acheson
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.
- Stella Adler
I'm going to go in and play, because the most important thing is playing on the field and being able to contribute. I really am ready.
- Freddy Adu
I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.
- Clay Aiken
To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can't survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
- Veronica Roth
Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.
- Veronica Roth
The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.
- Mohamed Alfayed
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
- Eddie Albert
the most important thing in life is learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
- Mitch Albom
The most important thing in life is to lean how to give out love, and let it come in.
- Mitch Albom
But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.
- Mitch Albom
You had many more years," he said.
"I didn't want them."
"But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to
your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future."
"What's that?"
"Hope.
- Mitch Albom
But how will I know who my Soulmate is? Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life.
By taking risks' she said to Brida. ' By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in you search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.
- Paulo Coelho
I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
- Paulo Coelho
That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
- Paulo Coelho
The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.
- Paulo Coelho
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it
- Paulo Coelho
The true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
- Paulo Coelho
The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
- Paulo Coelho
I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.
- Paulo Coelho
Now, though, I am convinces that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
- Paulo Coelho
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
- Paulo Coelho
i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
- Paulo Coelho
That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. Paulo Coelho
- Paulo Coelho
Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world.
- Paulo Coelho
She took the pills from him, placed them in her mouth and drank the entire bottle of water. Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world. Just like her at that moment.
- Paulo Coelho
It hurt when I lost each the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
- Paulo Coelho
The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114)
- Paulo Coelho
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
- Morrie Schwartz
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
- Samuel Alexander
(I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family.) Can your best friend be more importamt than your family? (24)
- Sherman Alexie
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
- Jesse Jackson
People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything you're holding back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.- Richard
- Elizabeth Gilbert
a true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
People think that a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.
- Richard V Allen
But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.
- Rick Allen
What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.
- Tom Allen
Like O'Rielly, we'll grab the most important word of each sentence... 'The' for example. Also, I'll say, 'I'm angry,' and the graphic will read, 'Colbert angry.
- Stephen Colbert
But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.
- Christiane Amanpour
When Kyle was finally firmly in front of the groom, John held out his hand. As Cole shook it, the men had the most important conversation in the world without saying a word.
- Debra Anastasia
Finally Cole spoke. "Shall we exchange rings?" He nodded at Beckett, who let the rings fall into Cole's hands as if it were the most important job he'd ever done. Perhaps to him it was.
- Debra Anastasia
What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.
- Brady Anderson
Treasures:
The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it.
- Brian Andreas
Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing.
- Marc Andreessen
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
- Maya Angelou
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
- Maya Angelou
And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.
- Hermann Hesse
But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.
- Lawrence Anthony
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
- Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
- Plato
Suze, your whole life," my dad went on, not without sympathy, "you've always made the right decisions. Not necessarily the easiest ones. The right ones. Don't mess that up now, when you're facing what's probably the most important decision you'll ever have to make.
- Meg Cabot
But I definitely see us playing a major role in St. Louis in the years to come. We already provide service to 95 percent of the markets St. Louis travelers visit the most. And we're adding capacity in some of the most important markets.
- Gerard Arpey
I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.
- Rosanna Arquette
Learned some things in my life, Duchess, one of the most important, you find a good woman, you take care of her."
"Please"
"This happens between us, Duchess, I'd take care of you."
"Don't"
"Die doin' it," he vowed.
- Kristen Ashley
I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, until I realized who was telling me that.
Emo Phillips
- Stella Atrium
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
- David Herbert Lawrence
you do that all the time you know. you ask me questions when you know the answer will piss you off. ask me a question where the answer could be yes? ask me if you're worth the hard work? ask me if in the last seven years of my life i've woken up in a cold sweat knowing i lost the most important person in my life apart from this kid i'm holding? ask me if getting you pregnat has felt like the best thing that's happened to me since my son was born?
- Melina Marchetta
I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you're through.
- Julia Quinn
There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.
- Julia Quinn
The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind...about everything that may seem impossible.
- P C Cast
I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.
- Rob Mariano
It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
- Beryl Bainbridge
Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.
- Fredrik Bajer
Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.
- James Baldwin
From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
- Oscar Wilde
I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.
- Roger Bannister
This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.
- Javier Bardem
Savitar, Savitar, Savitar. At least I won. Wasn't it you who had to cry to the counsel to come save your ass from an attack of a four-year-old? (Takeshi)
Four-year-old...tarranine demon. Don't forget the most important part. Those bastards are hatched full grown and it wasn't just one. It was a swarm of them. (Savitar)
So you admit you had help? (Takeshi)
Oh, that's it, sensei. You're tasting sand. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
- Dave Barry
The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.
- Charles Foster Bass
Delacroix was passionately in love with passion... The man himself was an intense passion, supported by a formidable will power.
He used to say constantly:
'Since I consider the impression transmitted to the artist by nature as the most important thing to translate, is it not necessary that he be armed in advance with all the speediest means of translation?'
- Charles Baudelaire
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?
- Franz Beckenbauer
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
- Albert Camus
It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.
- Kate Beckinsale
It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.
- Lemony Snicket
For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.
- Lemony Snicket
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
- Brendan Behan
As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.
- Marek Belka
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
- John Steinbeck
The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24
- John Steinbeck
But the Hebrew word, the word timshel'Thou mayest' that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if 'Thou mayest'it is also true that Thou mayest not.
- John Steinbeck
I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.
- Roberto Benigni
We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.
- Walter Benjamin
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
- Paul Berg
You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
- Peter Berg
I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
- Edgar Bergen
Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it's not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It's not so important where it leads. that's why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.
- Haruki Murakami
What if I've forgotten the most important thing?
- Haruki Murakami
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.
- Haruki Murakami
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
- Haruki Murakami
And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.
- Haruki Murakami
This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.
- Haruki Murakami
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one's eyes without seeing anything.
- Haruki Murakami
The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do anything, and be anything when we assume full responsibility for ourselves.
- Rachael Bermingham
When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
- Gael Garcia Bernal
The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.
- Tim Bernerslee
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
- Daniel J Bernstein
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
- Wendell Berry
There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).
- John Berryman
It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
- Jeff Bezos
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.
- Maeve Binchy
You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.
- Manolo Blahnik
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
- Allan Bloom
I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave.
- Amy Bloom
The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.
- John Boehner
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world.
- Alicia Keys
I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.
- Alicia Keys
Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.
- Diego Boneta
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
- Edward De Bono
The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.
- Tamora Pierce
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
- Daniel J Boorstin
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
- Elayne Boosler
Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.
- Ray Bradbury
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself....Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.
- Ray Bradbury
The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.
- Ray Bradbury
It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
- Boutros Boutrosghali
As a fiscal conservative, I believe one of the most important roles the federal government can play in assuring that our economy remains strong is to keep our fiscal house in order.
- Allen Boyd
The most important thing in life is to be free to do things. There are only two ways to insure that freedom you can be rich or you can you reduce your needs to zero.
- John Boyd
The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
- Danny Boyle
The lonely reality of the truth-that the most important person in your life suddenly ceased to exist. Which on a bad day meant maybe she had never existed at all. And on a good day, there was the other fear. That even if you were a hundred percent sure she had been there, maybe you were the only one who cared or remembered.
- Kami Garcia
Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
- Eric Braeden
The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
- Billy Bragg
When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.
- Russell Brand
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
- Louis D Brandeis
Belief?"
"Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?"
Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?"
"The most important kind, I think.
- Brandon Sanderson
In truth, it is the simplest act in the world. The trick works because you wish it to. You must remember the most important rule of and successful illusion; First the people must want to believe it.
- Libba Bray
You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.
- Libba Bray
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
- Gerald Brenan
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He wasn't much for erasing anyway. Sometimes your mistakes showed you the really interesting connections between your brain, your hand, and your heart, the ones you might otherwise never know were there. They were important even if you had no idea what they meant.
Like now, for instance. Coming back here might be the biggest mistake he'd ever made. But it might also be the most important thing he'd ever done.
- Poppy Z Brite
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.
- Phil Jackson
The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.
- Elise Broach
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
- Barbara Bush
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
- David Brooks
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
- John F Kennedy
I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.
- Dalai Lama
Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
- Dalai Lama
The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.
- Pat Brown
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
- Zig Ziglar
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.
- Zig Ziglar
Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that.
- Nicholas Sparks
People will tell you most of the story... and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid.
- Nicholas Sparks
That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
- Jackson Browne
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
- Avery Brundage
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
- Warren Buffett
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
- Warren Buffett
The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
- Barbara Ann Scott
Tell me when it's over " Thalia said. Her eyes were shut tight. The statue was holding on to us so we couldn't fall but still Thalia clutched his arm like it was the most important thing in the world.
"Everything's fine " I promised.
"Are... are we very high "
I looked down. Below us a range of snowy mountains zipped by. I stretched out my foot and kicked snow off one of the peaks.
"Nah " I said. "Not that high.
- Rick Riordan
You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.'
And why is that, Percy Jackson?'
Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said.
- Rick Riordan
It's okay," he said. "We're together." He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.
- Rick Riordan
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
- Candace Cameron Bure
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
- Edmund Burke
And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universeits culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.
- Kim Stanley Robinson
The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
- George Burns
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
- Ken Burns
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
- Richard Burton
My children are the most important thing in my life.
- Columba Bush
We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.
- George W Bush
The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.
- George W Bush
The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.
- George W Bush
We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.
- Jeb Bush
I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.
- Jenna Bush
The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.
- Candace Bushnell
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
- Candace Bushnell
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
The most important question a person can ask is, Is the Universe a friendly place?
- Albert Einstein
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
- Albert Einstein
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this religious feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.
- Albert Einstein
The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
- Albert Einstein
The most important human endeavour is striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.
- Albert Einstein
How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.
- Albert Einstein
One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.
- Robert Byrd
Your guardian angel loves you. You are precious to it. You are the most important person in the world to this angel.
- Lorna Byrne
They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.
- Rose Byrne
You know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy... I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.
- Rose Byrne
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
- Voltaire
If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.
- Deb Caletti
With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.
- Anne Campbell
Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
- Naomi Campbell
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The most important fact to know about the Christian Church in the two hundred years after Jesus' death is that only at the end of this period did the Church comprise as many people as the far-flung Jewish community numbered (five million) in the Roman Empire. Christianity developed an intense rivalry with Judaism, and for many decades was compared to the Jews as a minority. This accounts for the intense anti-Semitism that became enshrined in Christianity by 200 A.D.
- Norman F Cantor
The Export-Import Bank is one of the most important tools America has to create jobs.
- Maria Cantwell
Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
- Karel Capek
Freedom may be the most important thing in life, but there's such a thing as too much freedom.
- Truman Capote
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
- Audrey Hepburn
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
- Audrey Hepburn
Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.
- Lois Capps
Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.
- Andrew Card
Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.
- Orson Scott Card
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
- Orson Scott Card
- Mark Twain
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
- Lascelles Abercrombie
It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.
- John Abizaid
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
- Floyd Abrams
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.
- Chinua Achebe
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
- Dean Acheson
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.
- Stella Adler
I'm going to go in and play, because the most important thing is playing on the field and being able to contribute. I really am ready.
- Freddy Adu
I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.
- Clay Aiken
To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can't survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
- Veronica Roth
Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.
- Veronica Roth
The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.
- Mohamed Alfayed
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
- Eddie Albert
the most important thing in life is learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
- Mitch Albom
The most important thing in life is to lean how to give out love, and let it come in.
- Mitch Albom
But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.
- Mitch Albom
You had many more years," he said.
"I didn't want them."
"But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to
your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future."
"What's that?"
"Hope.
- Mitch Albom
But how will I know who my Soulmate is? Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life.
By taking risks' she said to Brida. ' By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in you search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.
- Paulo Coelho
I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
- Paulo Coelho
That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
- Paulo Coelho
The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.
- Paulo Coelho
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it
- Paulo Coelho
The true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
- Paulo Coelho
The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
- Paulo Coelho
I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.
- Paulo Coelho
Now, though, I am convinces that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
- Paulo Coelho
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
- Paulo Coelho
i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
- Paulo Coelho
That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. Paulo Coelho
- Paulo Coelho
Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world.
- Paulo Coelho
She took the pills from him, placed them in her mouth and drank the entire bottle of water. Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world. Just like her at that moment.
- Paulo Coelho
It hurt when I lost each the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
- Paulo Coelho
The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114)
- Paulo Coelho
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
- Morrie Schwartz
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
- Samuel Alexander
(I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family.) Can your best friend be more importamt than your family? (24)
- Sherman Alexie
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
- Jesse Jackson
People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything you're holding back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.- Richard
- Elizabeth Gilbert
a true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
People think that a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.
- Richard V Allen
But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.
- Rick Allen
What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.
- Tom Allen
Like O'Rielly, we'll grab the most important word of each sentence... 'The' for example. Also, I'll say, 'I'm angry,' and the graphic will read, 'Colbert angry.
- Stephen Colbert
But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.
- Christiane Amanpour
When Kyle was finally firmly in front of the groom, John held out his hand. As Cole shook it, the men had the most important conversation in the world without saying a word.
- Debra Anastasia
Finally Cole spoke. "Shall we exchange rings?" He nodded at Beckett, who let the rings fall into Cole's hands as if it were the most important job he'd ever done. Perhaps to him it was.
- Debra Anastasia
What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.
- Brady Anderson
Treasures:
The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it.
- Brian Andreas
Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing.
- Marc Andreessen
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
- Maya Angelou
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
- Maya Angelou
And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.
- Hermann Hesse
But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.
- Lawrence Anthony
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
- Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
- Plato
Suze, your whole life," my dad went on, not without sympathy, "you've always made the right decisions. Not necessarily the easiest ones. The right ones. Don't mess that up now, when you're facing what's probably the most important decision you'll ever have to make.
- Meg Cabot
But I definitely see us playing a major role in St. Louis in the years to come. We already provide service to 95 percent of the markets St. Louis travelers visit the most. And we're adding capacity in some of the most important markets.
- Gerard Arpey
I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.
- Rosanna Arquette
Learned some things in my life, Duchess, one of the most important, you find a good woman, you take care of her."
"Please"
"This happens between us, Duchess, I'd take care of you."
"Don't"
"Die doin' it," he vowed.
- Kristen Ashley
I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, until I realized who was telling me that.
Emo Phillips
- Stella Atrium
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
- David Herbert Lawrence
you do that all the time you know. you ask me questions when you know the answer will piss you off. ask me a question where the answer could be yes? ask me if you're worth the hard work? ask me if in the last seven years of my life i've woken up in a cold sweat knowing i lost the most important person in my life apart from this kid i'm holding? ask me if getting you pregnat has felt like the best thing that's happened to me since my son was born?
- Melina Marchetta
I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you're through.
- Julia Quinn
There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.
- Julia Quinn
The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind...about everything that may seem impossible.
- P C Cast
I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.
- Rob Mariano
It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
- Beryl Bainbridge
Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.
- Fredrik Bajer
Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.
- James Baldwin
From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
- Oscar Wilde
I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.
- Roger Bannister
This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.
- Javier Bardem
Savitar, Savitar, Savitar. At least I won. Wasn't it you who had to cry to the counsel to come save your ass from an attack of a four-year-old? (Takeshi)
Four-year-old...tarranine demon. Don't forget the most important part. Those bastards are hatched full grown and it wasn't just one. It was a swarm of them. (Savitar)
So you admit you had help? (Takeshi)
Oh, that's it, sensei. You're tasting sand. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
- Dave Barry
The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.
- Charles Foster Bass
Delacroix was passionately in love with passion... The man himself was an intense passion, supported by a formidable will power.
He used to say constantly:
'Since I consider the impression transmitted to the artist by nature as the most important thing to translate, is it not necessary that he be armed in advance with all the speediest means of translation?'
- Charles Baudelaire
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?
- Franz Beckenbauer
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
- Albert Camus
It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.
- Kate Beckinsale
It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.
- Lemony Snicket
For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.
- Lemony Snicket
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
- Brendan Behan
As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.
- Marek Belka
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
- John Steinbeck
The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24
- John Steinbeck
But the Hebrew word, the word timshel'Thou mayest' that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if 'Thou mayest'it is also true that Thou mayest not.
- John Steinbeck
I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.
- Roberto Benigni
We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.
- Walter Benjamin
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
- Paul Berg
You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
- Peter Berg
I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
- Edgar Bergen
Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it's not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It's not so important where it leads. that's why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.
- Haruki Murakami
What if I've forgotten the most important thing?
- Haruki Murakami
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.
- Haruki Murakami
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
- Haruki Murakami
And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.
- Haruki Murakami
This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.
- Haruki Murakami
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one's eyes without seeing anything.
- Haruki Murakami
The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do anything, and be anything when we assume full responsibility for ourselves.
- Rachael Bermingham
When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
- Gael Garcia Bernal
The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.
- Tim Bernerslee
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
- Daniel J Bernstein
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
- Wendell Berry
There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).
- John Berryman
It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
- Jeff Bezos
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.
- Maeve Binchy
You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.
- Manolo Blahnik
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
- Allan Bloom
I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave.
- Amy Bloom
The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.
- John Boehner
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world.
- Alicia Keys
I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.
- Alicia Keys
Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.
- Diego Boneta
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
- Edward De Bono
The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.
- Tamora Pierce
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
- Daniel J Boorstin
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
- Elayne Boosler
Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.
- Ray Bradbury
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself....Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.
- Ray Bradbury
The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.
- Ray Bradbury
It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
- Boutros Boutrosghali
As a fiscal conservative, I believe one of the most important roles the federal government can play in assuring that our economy remains strong is to keep our fiscal house in order.
- Allen Boyd
The most important thing in life is to be free to do things. There are only two ways to insure that freedom you can be rich or you can you reduce your needs to zero.
- John Boyd
The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
- Danny Boyle
The lonely reality of the truth-that the most important person in your life suddenly ceased to exist. Which on a bad day meant maybe she had never existed at all. And on a good day, there was the other fear. That even if you were a hundred percent sure she had been there, maybe you were the only one who cared or remembered.
- Kami Garcia
Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
- Eric Braeden
The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
- Billy Bragg
When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.
- Russell Brand
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
- Louis D Brandeis
Belief?"
"Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?"
Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?"
"The most important kind, I think.
- Brandon Sanderson
In truth, it is the simplest act in the world. The trick works because you wish it to. You must remember the most important rule of and successful illusion; First the people must want to believe it.
- Libba Bray
You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.
- Libba Bray
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
- Gerald Brenan
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He wasn't much for erasing anyway. Sometimes your mistakes showed you the really interesting connections between your brain, your hand, and your heart, the ones you might otherwise never know were there. They were important even if you had no idea what they meant.
Like now, for instance. Coming back here might be the biggest mistake he'd ever made. But it might also be the most important thing he'd ever done.
- Poppy Z Brite
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.
- Phil Jackson
The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.
- Elise Broach
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
- Barbara Bush
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
- David Brooks
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
- John F Kennedy
I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.
- Dalai Lama
Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
- Dalai Lama
The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.
- Pat Brown
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
- Zig Ziglar
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.
- Zig Ziglar
Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that.
- Nicholas Sparks
People will tell you most of the story... and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid.
- Nicholas Sparks
That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
- Jackson Browne
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
- Avery Brundage
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
- Warren Buffett
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
- Warren Buffett
The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
- Barbara Ann Scott
Tell me when it's over " Thalia said. Her eyes were shut tight. The statue was holding on to us so we couldn't fall but still Thalia clutched his arm like it was the most important thing in the world.
"Everything's fine " I promised.
"Are... are we very high "
I looked down. Below us a range of snowy mountains zipped by. I stretched out my foot and kicked snow off one of the peaks.
"Nah " I said. "Not that high.
- Rick Riordan
You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.'
And why is that, Percy Jackson?'
Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said.
- Rick Riordan
It's okay," he said. "We're together." He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.
- Rick Riordan
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
- Candace Cameron Bure
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
- Edmund Burke
And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universeits culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.
- Kim Stanley Robinson
The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
- George Burns
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
- Ken Burns
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
- Richard Burton
My children are the most important thing in my life.
- Columba Bush
We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.
- George W Bush
The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.
- George W Bush
The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.
- George W Bush
We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.
- Jeb Bush
I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.
- Jenna Bush
The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.
- Candace Bushnell
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
- Candace Bushnell
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
The most important question a person can ask is, Is the Universe a friendly place?
- Albert Einstein
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
- Albert Einstein
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this religious feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.
- Albert Einstein
The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
- Albert Einstein
The most important human endeavour is striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.
- Albert Einstein
How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.
- Albert Einstein
One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.
- Robert Byrd
Your guardian angel loves you. You are precious to it. You are the most important person in the world to this angel.
- Lorna Byrne
They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.
- Rose Byrne
You know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy... I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.
- Rose Byrne
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
- Voltaire
If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.
- Deb Caletti
With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.
- Anne Campbell
Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
- Naomi Campbell
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The most important fact to know about the Christian Church in the two hundred years after Jesus' death is that only at the end of this period did the Church comprise as many people as the far-flung Jewish community numbered (five million) in the Roman Empire. Christianity developed an intense rivalry with Judaism, and for many decades was compared to the Jews as a minority. This accounts for the intense anti-Semitism that became enshrined in Christianity by 200 A.D.
- Norman F Cantor
The Export-Import Bank is one of the most important tools America has to create jobs.
- Maria Cantwell
Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
- Karel Capek
Freedom may be the most important thing in life, but there's such a thing as too much freedom.
- Truman Capote
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
- Audrey Hepburn
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
- Audrey Hepburn
Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.
- Lois Capps
Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.
- Andrew Card
Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.
- Orson Scott Card
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
- Orson Scott Card
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