Best Of Me Quotes - Page 3

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

  Willard Wigan

  People

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• There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Sin, Worst

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.41

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• As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hate, Men, Self

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.598, e-artnow

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• Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Character, Men

  Letter to Elias Shipman and Merchants of New Haven, July 12, 1801.

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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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• At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. 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. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.

  William Osler

  Attitude, Science, Simple

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, States

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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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• 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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• 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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• I understand that in the industry, a lot of it isn't real. Which is a difficult thing. Where I come from a lot of people are straightforward and I've had to learn how to not say exactly what I feel. Sometimes it gets frustrating being a person who says what he feels and what his heart is telling him. Every once in a while I fall into letting the industry get the best of me and not just saying exactly what I feel.

  Wale

  Real, Fall, Heart

  "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

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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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• Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men, Littles, Way

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• The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

  Nicholas Sparks

  World, Truth Is, Easy

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• It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Honor, Sorrow

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 20, 2012

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• What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Generations, Grass, Younger Generation

  "The Best of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October, 2011.

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• Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Regret, Believe, Long

  "The Best Of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2011.

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• Change isn't always for the best.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Best Of Me”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• "Please... don't ask me to go with you, because if you do, I'll go. Please don't ask me to tell Frank about us, because I'll do that, too. Please don't ask me to give up my responsibilities or break up my family"... "I love you, and if you love me, too, then you just can't ask me to do these things. Because I don't trust myself enough to say no."

  Nicholas Sparks

  Giving Up, Love You, Responsibility

  "The Best Of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 11, 2011.

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• She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people together, add the inevitable ups and downs, give the mixture a vigorous stir, and a few stormy arguments were inevitable, no matter how the couple loved each other.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Couple, Two, People

  "The Best of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 11, 2011.

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• If Jesus is not God, then there is no Christianity, and we who worship Him are nothing more than idolaters. Conversely, if He is God, those who say He was merely a good man, or even the best of men, are blasphemers. More serious still, if He is not God, then He is a blasphemer in the fullest sense of the word. If He is not God, He is not even good.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Jesus, Men, Good Man

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.809, Moody Publishers

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• To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.

  W. G. Sebald

  Summer, Fall, Men

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Men, Law

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• Do not grieve. Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for... Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives - they grow everywhere.

  Kent Nerburn

  Death, Past, Men

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• No worse a husband than the best of men.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Men

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.681

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