957 private quotes tagged best

“I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.” — Amy Grant

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“In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.” — Carter G. Woodson

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“It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.” — George MacDonald

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“When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.” — Henry Miller

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“You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.” — Mena Suvari

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“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Canada's the best country in the world.” — Justin Bieber

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“Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.” — Marilyn Manson

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“I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.” — Lil Wayne

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“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

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“Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.” — Baltasar Gracian

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“Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.” — Francois Fenelon

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“Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.” — Ivana Trump

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“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.” — George Santayana

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“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.” — Virginia Woolf

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“The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.” — Marilyn Manson

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“A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.” — Mikhail Bakunin

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“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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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

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“We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.” — James M. Barrie

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“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.” — Howard Cosell

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“Music is the best way for me to say I love you.” — Mireille Mathieu

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“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.” — Robert Browning

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“Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.” — Stephen King

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