Quotes 1281 till 1300 of 1600.
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The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
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The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
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The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184 -
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
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There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
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There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
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