Quotes with second-best

Quotes 201 till 220 of 1600.

  • Sophocles Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Bruce Dickinson Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Cormac McCarthy Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
    No Country for Old Men (2007) 244
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Bernard Berenson Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Alexander Pope Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • H. G. Bohn Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.
    H. G. Bohn
    British publisher
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Sagan Books tap the wisdom of our species - the greatest minds, the best teachers - from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Arthur Cayley But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Homer But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Bode Miller But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Barry Bonds But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
    Barry Bonds
    American professional baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Barack Obama But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
    Statement during National Prayer Breakfast (27 September 2010)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Francis Bacon By far the best proof is experience.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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