Quotes with second-best

Quotes 541 till 560 of 1600.

  • Buzz Aldrin If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • George Eliot If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Anita Loos If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Carl Bernstein If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Robert S. Hillyer If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.
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  • Bernie Sanders If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Dale Carnegie If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Arthur Brisbane If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
    Arthur Brisbane
    American newspaper editor (1864 - 1936)
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  • Jesse Owens If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Bob Kane If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Pat Riley If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Casey Wilson If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Peggy Noonan If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein If you like dark movies or light movies, 'The Empire Strikes Back' is one of the great movies of all time. It's probably the greatest movie of all time. 'A New Hope' is a superb movie. It's probably the second-greatest movie of all time, but 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Barry McGuire If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Brit Marling If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Harry Mathews If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
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    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • Henry Ford If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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