Best Of Me Quotes - Page 2

• Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Remarkable, Remembered

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.44

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• Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

  Joseph Sobran

  Men, Liberty

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• I think, in life, being nervous about something that's forthcoming is very helpful, whether it's an awards show or a family gathering or a job interview. If you're too calm and confident, then I think you aren't executing to the best of your ability. So I try not to let nerves get the best of me, but I welcome them because it tends to fuel me to try harder.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Jobs, Thinking, Awards

  "Neil Patrick Harris welcomes a Kanye moment at Oscars". CBS Interview, www.cbsnews.com. February 19, 2015.

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• J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion...One of the bravest and best of men.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Champion, Evangelical

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• No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

  William Osler

  Life, Humility, Men

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

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• Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men.  It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.

  Gene Edwards

  Men, Speak, Empty

  Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.69, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

  Plato

  Ambition, Son, Men

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• I think when you write every song on your album - it's like having eleven or twelve children. It's hard to say I like this one song more or I like that one more. I love every song on the album. What's happening is that I'm hoping that everyone will be very satisfied. I think the single "Good Girl" will be adored by the people in the urban world and I think the "Best of Me" will be loved by people in the pop world.

  Chrisette Michele

  Girl, Song, Children

  "Chrisette Michele: Unifying Music". Singersroom Interview, singersroom.com. June 18, 2007.

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• I was strong enough not to let them get the best of me, but I'm definitely one who has taken what people say to heart and let it eat away at me.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Strong, Taken, Heart

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• What are gods for if not to sit in judgment over men? The Many-Faced God does not weigh men's souls, however. He gives his gift to the best of men as he gives it to the worst. Elsewise the good would live forever.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Giving, Forever

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3867, Bantam

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• That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

  William Shakespeare

  Persistence, Men, Ordinary

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.63, Classic Books Company

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• By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most.

  John Newton

  Spiritual, Men, Soul

  John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.406

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• I never let the worst things in life get the best of me.
  So take these testes and, ummm...open sesame.

  King Sun

  Rap, Things In Life, Hip Hop

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• My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.

  Willard Wigan

  People

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• The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.

  Laurence Sterne

  Character, Men, Omission

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• You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blunderingclod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Book, Poetry

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• It must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their thoughts of spiritual things excited, multiplied, and confirmed, by the preaching of the word.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Men, May

  John Owen (2014). “Spiritual-Mindedness”, p.29, Ravenio Books

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• .. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

  Aristotle

  Men, Law, Political

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• Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, States

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• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Jobs, Winning, Bronze Medal

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• Jealousy always gets the best of me.

  Eric Halvorsen

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• I'm just a girl, With a dream that got the best of me, In a world that believes fame is everything.

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Dream, Believe

  Song: Just a Girl

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• ... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  War, Men, Years

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• 'Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you're making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don't care who sees, 'cause baby you got me so crazy.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Love, Baby, Crazy

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• The kingdom of God is a society of the best of men, working for the best ends, according to the best methods. It's law is one word - Loyalty; It's gospel one message - Love. If you know anything better, live for it; if not, in the name of God and of humanity, carry out Christ's plan

  Henry Drummond

  Loyalty, Men, Law

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