Quotes with second-best

Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1600.

  • Susan Sontag The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Bill Cunningham The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be.
    Bill Cunningham
    American fashion photographer
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  • Chuck Palahniuk The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.
    Chuck Palahniuk
    American novelist and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Voltaire The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Algernon Sydney The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Abigail Van Buren The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Laurence J. Peter The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Napoleon Hill The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Carl Lewis The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bill Hicks The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • William Butler Yeats The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Thomas J. Peters The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Butler The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Saadi The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Douglas Macarthur The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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