Quotes 2621 till 2640 of 2849.
-
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise - although the philosophers generally call it ''recognition''!
-
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
-
What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.
-
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 41 -
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
-
What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
-
What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
-
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
-
What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
-
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.
-
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
-
What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
-
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
-
What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
-
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.
-
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
-
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!
-
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
-
What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
-
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
All most-used famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 132)
