Best Things Quotes - Page 22

• To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Greatness, Musician, Poet

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “Essays and Studies”, p.59, Chatto & Windus

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• The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Creativity, Adults, World

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• A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Education, Mother, Teaching

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.

  Ben Bradlee

  Country, Integrity, Ethical Standards

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• Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad guy; I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins.

  Sammy Gravano

  Gun, Winning, Safety

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• If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, People, Giving

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• Whether you like it or not, learn to love it, because its the best thing going. Wooooo!

  Ric Flair

  Wrestling, You Like It, Pro Wrestling

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• My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming from a certain direction and wind was coming from another, what was the best thing to do? The right answer was, "Run like hell and pray for rain," but few students ever got it. So allow yourself the freedom of knowing there are times to bail out, quit, run, leave the struggle, and have more time for joy.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Letting Go, Running, Father

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• Maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.

  Ann Curry

  Motivation, Being The Best, Havens

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• The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dream, Good Life, Thinking

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• I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching-thang to this effect: "Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again."

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Religious, Kings

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.140

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• I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Drug, Use

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• ... you are legally allowed to drink kid, so we figured the best thing for you is a car.

  Cole Hauser

  Kids, Car, Drug

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• The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Player, Nfl

  Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. January 30, 2011.

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• I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Children, Dad

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• The best things in life are often the ones hardest to get. Yet they are also the ones that are the easiest to find, usually right in front of your face.

  Mark Donaldson

  Wisdom, Things In Life, Faces

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• Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human being can do. It puts your whole world into perspective.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Wisdom, Perspective, Different

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• We have a small, tight family. I left home at a young age and the best thing for me was to go home at Christmas-time and spend time with my family and friends. It's kind of funny, most people do turkey and all the trimmings, but we would have a big seafood festival because it's the only time of the year that we'd eat it. We never really went caroling, but once in a while we'd got out for a sleigh ride

  Jimmy Roy

  Funny Christmas, Home, Years

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• It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Reflection, Important

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.432, Princeton University Press

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• The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Kind, Surprise

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• The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.

  Paul McCartney

  Father, Men, Wife

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• Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Mind, Earth

  "Interview with Lauren Bacall". "CNN Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 6, 2005.

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• You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.

  Pat Derby

  Freedom, Animal, People

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• I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

  Robert Harris

  Morning, Writing, Together

  "A little bit of politics". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.

  W. C. Fields

  World, Chess, Worst

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