Quotes with second-best

Quotes 321 till 340 of 1600.

  • Katherine Whitehorn Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
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  • Richard Nixon Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Andre Weil First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
    Andre Weil
    French mathematician
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  • Fitzhugh Dodson First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
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  • John Ruskin Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Betsy Brandt For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Cao Yu For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
    Cao Yu
     
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  • Carl Sagan For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 7 min 25 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bob Barr For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Alexander Pope For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Busta Rhymes For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that's the most reward thing in the world.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Beth Ditto For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert For me, a show's a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • John Milton For solitude sometimes is best society,
    And short retirement urges sweet return.
    Paradise lost (1667) IX, 249
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Luther Burbank For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
    Luther Burbank
    American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Tatyana Tolstaya For us, the best time is always yesterday.
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  • George Eliot For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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