Quotes with best-prepared

Quotes 701 till 720 of 1414.

  • Ban Ki-moon Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • John Ruskin Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Cook Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
    Joseph Cook
    6th prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914 (1860 - 1947)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Of all the works of man I like best
    Those which have been used.
    The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
    The knives and forks whose wooden handles
    Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
    Seemed to me the noblest.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • John Selden Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Francis Bacon Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ian Fleming Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
    Ian Fleming
    British author and journalist (1908 - 1964)
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  • Aldous Huxley On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Brad Meltzer On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Boman Irani Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Merlin Olsen One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
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  • Ben Zobrist One of my best friends, James Miller, managed to find the only Cubs hat that is all red.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Josh Billings One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Groucho Marx One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • John Naisbitt One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
    John Naisbitt
    American author and public speaker (1929 - )
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  • Frank Herbert One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • Eric Butterworth One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Bernie S. Siegel One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you behave as if you are a different person, you change on a very basic level - even your physiology changes. When actors and actresses perform, their body chemistry is altered by the roles they play.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Dean Rusk One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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