Quotes with second-best

Quotes 401 till 420 of 1600.

• How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

  John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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• How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

  Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
  

  Maya Angelou
  African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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• How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

  Lou Holtz
  American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  Aaron Klug
  British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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• Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

  Allen Klein
  American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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• I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

  Asa Gray
  American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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• I agree that the last years of life are the best, if one is a philosopher.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
  

  Joseph Rudyard Kipling
  English writer (1865 - 1936)
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• I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

  Flannery O'Connor
  American writer and essayist (1925 - 1964)
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• I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
  

  Sylvia Plath
  American poet (1932 - 1963)
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• I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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• I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.

  Omar N. Bradley
  American general (1893 - 1981)
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• I am easily satisfied with the very best.

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

  Jesse Jackson
  American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.

  Anne Perry
  English author (1938 - )
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• I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

  Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.

  Busta Rhymes
  American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• preservatives
• explaining
• appreciate
• additional
• curiosity
• disjoined

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