T Quotes
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“The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke.”
“The best of our best, without Jesus, looks like a pile of crap compared to Him.”
Source: To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
“The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.”
“The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.”
Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller
“The best of people are not those who buy flowers and give them to their loved ones to be placed in pretty vases on bedside tables and mantelpieces. The best of people are those who grow flowers in boxes on their window sills for all those who pass by to see.”
Source: The Mind Is Its Own Place
“The best of seers is he who guesses well.”
“The best of Texas is yet to come.”
“The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.”
“The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness.”
“The best of the people are the first to greet others.”
“The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The best of times is now.”
“The best of today lays a great foundation for tomorrow.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“The best of us would rather be popular than right.”
Source: No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger: Being an Ancient Tale Found in a Jug and Freely Translated from the Jug
“The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.”
“The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“The best of women are hypocrites.”
“The best of you are those who are best to the women”
“The best of you
I like more than you think.
the others don't count
except that they have fingers and heads
and some of them eyes and most of them legs and all of them
good and bad dreams
and a way to go.”
Source: Love is a Dog From Hell
“The best of you is invisible to the eye but not the heart.”
“the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them”
“The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.”
“The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.”
“The best one-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln is still Benjamin Thomas's 1952 biography. David Donald's 1995 biography is a close second, and close enough that if you can only obtain the Donald rather than the Thomas, your book club will still be doing just fine.”
“The best ones to solve the climate change problem are businesses all around the world. If each business adapts permaculture principles, we would see massive improvements in climate and natural ecosystem conditions.”
“The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.”
Source: Natural Science and Religion
“The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.”
“The best opportunities to be nice to others come in the face of adversity. Kindness wins. Reciprocity rules. NetworkEtiquette.net”
“The best option for me to do was not to move. I tried, and any little nudge or step, it the cramping would get worse. It was the whole left leg ... nearly the whole left side. ... I drank a lot of fluids at halftime. I even changed my uniform.”
“The best or nothing at all.”
“The best or worst thing you can do for or to someone who hates themselves is to openly love them.”
“The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.”
“The best outcomes that are seen for therapy intervention and for other psychological interventions is where the therapist really connects and the person really feels understood. That matters often even more than the technique.”
“The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.”
“The best paid sex can still be really great and really intense, but, you know, without the emotional passion there, it's not going to be quite at the same level as the best unpaid sex.”
“The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.”
“The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.”
“The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.”
“The best palliative for anguish is the conviction that God has a sense of humor.”
Source: Nicolas Gomez Davila: An Anthology
“The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.”
“The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog. 2. The terrible twos last through age three. 3. Never ask your child an open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered.”
“The best Paris I know now is in my head.”
“The best part about a first kiss is right before the first kiss.”
“The best part about being a Blazer is the fans. The fans here are so loyal it feels like a college team with how close the fans and players are. They have such a great passion for the team that it makes it fun to be a part of and makes you want to work harder to make the team successful.”
“The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.”
“The best part about being a superstar is that you can wear the most outrageous of clothes and they say 'it's in!'”
“The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.”
Source: Teaching Matters: How to Keep Your Passion and Thrive in Today's Classroom
“The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.”