Quotes with best-written

Quotes 921 till 940 of 1544.

  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Take up the White Man's burden - send forth the best ye breed - go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barbara Demick Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Francis Quarles Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word ''satiety.''
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Mark Twain Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Cass McCombs Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious.
    Cass McCombs
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • William Wordsworth That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Henry David Thoreau That government is best which governs least.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Jefferson That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Arne Jacobsen That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Gloria Vanderbilt That is the best - to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
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  • Boris Johnson That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.
    Daily Telegraph 26 February 2004
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Ernest Hemingway That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best -make it all up -but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Pittacus That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
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  • William Shakespeare That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bartlett Sher That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • John Locke The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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