Quotes with second-best

Quotes 241 till 260 of 1600.

  • Bryant H. McGill Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • John Berger Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Matthew Arnold Culture is „To know the best that has been said and thought in the world".
    Literature and Dogma, Preface
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Matthew Arnold Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Bill Rancic Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Pierre Corneille Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • William S. Gilbert Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Thomas Wolfe Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.'
    Democracy the best revenge, says Bilawal, Dawn (Internet). December 31, 2007/Zilhaj 20, 1428.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Bob Dylan Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon - but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx - the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Barr Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Don G. Mitchell Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the ''best'' in your chosen field, whatever it is.
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  • Samuel Johnson Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bernie Sanders Difficult times often bring out the best in people.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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