Quotes with next-best

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1663.

  • George Eliot The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Casey Stengel The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Austin O'Malley The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • George Orwell The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Paula Nelson The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the ''who, what, where, why, and how much... ''
    Paula Nelson
     
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  • Alistair Cooke The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Goodman Ace The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else s.
    Goodman Ace
    American humourist, radio writer and comedian (1899 - 1982)
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  • Napoleon The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Arnold Bennett The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Bob Moawad The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
    Bob Moawad
     
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  • William F. Buckley The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
    William F. Buckley
    American political commentator and journalist
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  • Billy Wilder The best director is the one you don't see.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Jonathan Swift The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Wendell Phillips The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Susan Sontag The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Bill Cunningham The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be.
    Bill Cunningham
    American fashion photographer
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