Quotes with second-best

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  • Bruce Dern In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Box Brown In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.
    Box Brown
    American cartoonist
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  • Robert Hall In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
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  • Carter G. Woodson In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Anne Tyler In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
    Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore upon Presentation of a Bible, 7 september 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henrik Ibsen In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Brigham Young In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Beau Willimon In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Bryan Robson In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Aberjhani In the face of a world where economic hardships often ground the best of the human spirit into the worst, love provided a pathway into hidden chambers of the spirit where nobility and compassion might be salvaged, resurrected, and made stronger.
    The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)
    Aberjhani
    American historian, columnist and novelist (1957 - )
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  • Bryant Gumbel In the first two years this is a man who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn't those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Brad Carson In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • George Crabbe In this wild world the fondest and the best
    are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.
    George Crabbe
    English poet, surgeon and clergyman (1745 - 1832)
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