Quotes with second-best

Quotes 601 till 620 of 1600.

  • Winston Churchill In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Baba Kalyani India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Casey Wilson Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
    First Inaugural Address (1861)
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Billy Tauzin Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Janet Guthrie It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.
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  • Bobby Darin It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Napoleon Hill It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Ronald Reagan It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • André Agassi It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
    André Agassi
    American tennis player (1970 - )
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  • A. Benson Cannon It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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  • John Ruskin It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Tennessee Williams It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Robert Browning It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • W. M. Thackeray It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • W. M. Thackeray It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • William Ellery Channing It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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