Quotes with best-prepared

Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1414.

  • Will Rogers The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ''How is the president?''
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Billy Collins The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Peter Ustinov The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Bob Rae The premise of neo-conservatives is that markets left to their own devices will produce the best possible result, and that political interference is not required. This defies the human reality that people are not commodities, and simply refuse to behave as if they were.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Pro
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Vince Lombardi The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • John Ruskin The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Michelangelo The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • John Adams The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Henry Fielding The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Raymond Chandler The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Paramahansa Yogananda The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
    Paramahansa Yogananda
    Indian Hindu monk, yogi and teacher (1893 - 1952)
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  • Bre Pettis The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Winston Churchill The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Flores The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Bill Frist The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
    Interviewed J. Rentilly (sept. 2002)
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • David Hare The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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