Quotes with second-best

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 1600.

  • Benjamin Franklin Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Gates We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Samuel Butler We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • David Mamet We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Dave Barry We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie We are all failures - at least, all the best of us are.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Eduardo Galeano We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
    Eduardo Galeano
    Uruguayan journalist and writer (1940 - 2015)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Thomas Wolfe We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Earl Nightingale We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Djuna Barnes We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
    Djuna Barnes
    American writer and artist (1892 - 1982)
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  • Timothy Leary We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
    Timothy Leary
    American psychologist and writer (1920 - 1996)
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  • Sir Anthony Eden We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
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  • Virginia Woolf We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Oscar Wilde We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Adam Osborne We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Betty Buckley We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Bert McCracken We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Joseph Joubert We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Jane Austen We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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