Best Of Me Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

  William Manchester

  Men, Sublime, Noble

  William Manchester (1979). “American Caesar”

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Champion, Evangelical

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• With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

  Washington Irving

  Men, Evil, Individual

  Washington Irving (1859). “The works of Washington Irving”, p.402

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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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• 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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• To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Trying, Acting

  In J. B. MacMaster 'History of the People of the U.S.' (1883-1913) vol. 2, ch. 13, p. 586

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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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• I am an emotional pitcher, but I can control it. When I was in high school, I was a little immature and I let my emotions get the best of me.

  Justin Verlander

  School, Emotional, Immature

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• The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Playing Music, Matter, Sometimes

  Interview with Larry Livermore, larrylivermore.com. August 14, 2009.

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• The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

  J. C. Ryle

  Father, Men, Needs

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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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• Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Successful, Men, Errors

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• Jealousy always gets the best of me.

  Eric Halvorsen

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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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• 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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• And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

  Aristotle

  Greatness, Men, Soul

  Aristotle (2017). “Eleven Common Characteristics of Great Souls”, p.4, Philaletheians UK

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• Last night I let the party get the best of me.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Party, Night, Lasts

  Song: No Sleep, Album: Rolling Papers, 2011

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