Most Quotes
40996 Most quotes by 14971 unique authors
-
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
— Louis D. Brandeis
-
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
— Louis D. Brandeis
-
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most…
— Louis D. Brandeis
-
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
— Georg Brandes
-
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
— Marlon Brando
-
It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the…
— Bill Brandt
-
And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen…
— Hjalmar Branting
-
For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother…
— Wernher von Braun
-
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
— Robert Bresson
-
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
— Andre Breton
-
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
— Beau Bridges
-
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them…
— Jeff Bridges
-
Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.
— Jeff Bridges
-
Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All…
— Jeff Bridges
-
What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that,…
— Jeff Bridges
-
As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
— Joe Bob Briggs
-
People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of…
— David Brinkley
-
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with…
— Eli Broad
-
School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or…
— Eli Broad
-
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
— Tom Brokaw
-
Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to…
— Anne Bronte
-
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
— Charlotte Bronte
-
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow…
— Charlotte Bronte
-
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
— Emily Bronte
-
I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh…
— Malin Akerman
Who Wrote These Most Quotes
14,971 authors contributed a total of 40,996 Most Quotes, led by these top contributors: