For even the most seasoned diplomats and foreign policymakers, the Israel-Palestinian conflict is a pressure cooker assignment that can cause angst of an existential nature.
Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.
The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.
I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.
My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most.
The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.
To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.
The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.
Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.
On Sunday, I think the most important thing for me is to just turn my brain off. The idea of not trying is the key, because that's where you're relaxed enough to let your brain make new connections.
In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
I find in most circumstances, people leave bosses, not companies.
We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
What Democrats call 'nuanced', most people refer to as 'stupidity.'
I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends and try not to take myself too seriously.
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
Most women are one man away from welfare.
There are very few young goalkeepers who play at the top level. Most goalkeepers figure it out as time goes on.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now.
I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.
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.
Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.
Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement.
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.
People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
