All The Best Quotes - Page 5

• An unanticipated destination, perhaps, but you must admit,all the best journeys take unexpected detours.

  Lisa Mangum

  Journey, Detours, Unexpected

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• He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.

  John Locke

  Country, Men, Past

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.537

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• Who in the world remembers who won the 1975 Westchester Classic or the 1978 Western Open? Basically, the majors are the only comparison over time . . . played on the same courses for generations. All the best players are always there.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Player, Generations

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• It's good to be compared with Randy Johnson, and it's wonderful to be compared to all the best pitchers in the game.

  Johan Santana

  Games, Wonderful, Pitcher

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• Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.

  Alice Waters

  Thinking, Slow Food, Care

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• Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

  Seth Godin

  Drawing, Boards, Best Work

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• How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

  Russell Baker

  Education, Children, Home

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.

  Thomas More

  Men, Water, Parent

  Sir Thomas More (2009). “Utopia: On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia”, p.93, The Floating Press

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• You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.

  Rickey Henderson

  Opportunity, Player, Games

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• If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Growth, Environmental

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• All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Reality, Agreement, Wild Imagination

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• All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

  Helene Deutsch

  Impulse, Adolescence, Humans

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• Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.

  Jan Morris

  Cities, Greed, Doubt

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

  Quintilian

  Teacher, Learning, Pride

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Soul, Half

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

  William Booth

  Army, Devil, Tunes

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• If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Waiting, Too Late, Numb

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• Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Gambling, Casinos, Quitting

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• When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Sibling, School

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• It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers

  Terry Pratchett

  Heaven, Devil, Tunes

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman, ‎Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice." That's nice," she said.

  Orson Scott Card

  Nice, Kissing, Choices

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• I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the perfect pianist. He had a beautiful touch, knew all the best ways around the chord changes, and swung mightily. And he brought an air of cheerful competence to every date, making us all feel that it would be possible to make some very good music that day.

  Bill Crow

  Beautiful, Piano, Numbers

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• The white man gets all the best catchphrases!

  Eddie Murphy

  Men, White Man, White

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• She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.

  Peter Cameron

  Names, Perfect, Addiction

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.149, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

  Angelina Jolie

  Love Is, People, Wish

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