Quotes with next-best

Quotes 861 till 880 of 1663.

  • William Somerset Maugham Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Jean Giraudoux Only the mediocre are always at their best.
    Jean Giraudoux
    French writer (1882 - 1944)
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  • Ford Maddox Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
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  • Clark Kenneth Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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  • M. Drayton Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
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  • Robert Cialdini Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our best history is still poetry.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Simmons Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • James H. Robinson Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Billy Parish Our personal networks, although often small at the beginning, can still be the best place to start when we want to get a job that makes a difference or take our ideas to the next level.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • Socrates Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Arthur Erickson Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Groucho Marx Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Jean Paul Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Jesse Owens People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Bruce Springsteen People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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