Quotes with second-best

Quotes 821 till 840 of 1600.

• Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

  Sir Max Beerbohm
  British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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• Only the mediocre are always at their best.

  Jean Giraudoux
  French writer (1882 - 1944)
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• Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

  Ford Maddox
   
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• Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

  M. Drayton
   
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• Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

  Robert Cialdini
   
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• Our best history is still poetry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

  Gerard De Nerval
  French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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• Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.

  Bill Simmons
  American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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• Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

  James H. Robinson
   
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• Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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• Our personal networks, although often small at the beginning, can still be the best place to start when we want to get a job that makes a difference or take our ideas to the next level.

  Billy Parish
  American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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• Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

  Socrates
  Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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• Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

  Arthur Erickson
  Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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• Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  Groucho Marx
  American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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• Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

  Jean Paul
  German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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• People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

  Jesse Owens
  American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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• People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

  Bruce Springsteen
  American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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• People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

  Annie Dillard
  American author (1945 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• relationships
• accumulations
• observations
• conclusions
• incongruous
• momentarily

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