Quotes with best-written

Quotes 1161 till 1180 of 1544.

  • Samuel Johnson The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles Dickens The hardest and best borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record and are suffered every day.
    Old Curiosity Shop
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Wendell Phillips The heart is the best reflective thinker.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Bruce Chatwin The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Emma Goldman The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Ad Reinhardt The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Arthur Scargill The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Ayn Rand The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Greg Anderson The Law of Win/Win says, ''Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Richard Saunders The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.
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  • Charles Evans Hughes The least practical solutions have the best acronyms.
    Charles Evans Hughes
    American statesman and Republican politician (1862 - 1948)
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  • Carl Sagan The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • C. Wright Mills The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • William Wordsworth The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Junius The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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