Best Things Quotes - Page 10

• I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

  Isaac Asimov

  Next, Psychological, Wanted

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “Foundation”

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• How could I not love you? No one has ever affected me like you do. When you told me goodbye last month, I tried to let you go. I told myself it was the best thing for you because you wanted it. But you’re wrong, Dori. I’m good for you even if you don’t know it yet. I know because I’ve never been good for anyone before.

  Tammara Webber

  Goodbye, Love You, Lasts

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• If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

  Stephen Fry

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sympathy

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• You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.

  Clive Barker

  Things In Life, Honey, Being The Best

  Clive Barker (2011). “Abarat”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• He lifted his brows. "If I really thought it was the absolute best thing for our kids, you'd have had a battle on your hands. That was just a debate." "With chair-throwing." "Heated debate. Fights involve chair-breaking. Chair-throwing is just getting your attention.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Kids, Fighting, Hands

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• The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Being Alone, People, Leave Me Alone

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.33, Canongate Books

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• living life was like putting the beach into a jar. The point wasn’t to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first—the big, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people and experiences—and fit the lesser things in around them. Otherwise, the best things might get left out

  James Patterson

  Beautiful, Beach, Live Life

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.

  Douglas Coupland

  The End Of The Day, Tomorrow, Ends

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• Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

  Dean Koontz

  Men, Good Woman, Odd Thomas

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2015

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• When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

  George R. R. Martin

  Eye, Finding Yourself, Bed

  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.302, Bantam

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• You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all.

  Mira Grant

  Dream, Home, Trying

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• The best thing we can do for the dead is to do their share of living with a smile. ~Train Heartnet

  Kentaro Yabuki

  Share, Can Do, Train

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• All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is made of love. Maybe that wasn’t your plan when you created the universe—maybe love was just one aspect of a complicated and brutal world. But love was the best thing you made, and it has become the only thing worth saving. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

  Lauren Kate

  War, Good Love, Fighting

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Rapture: Book 4 of the Fallen Series”, p.388, Random House

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• When people hurt us, the best thing to do isn’t to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn’t our fault.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Hurt, People, Faults

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• Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sometimes, Settling

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Writing, Fiction, Writing Fiction

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• One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Body, Next, Failing

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• The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.

  Graham Greene

  Talking, Next

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

  Stephen King

  Teaching, Kids, Feelings

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.

  Susan Fletcher

  Soul, Sat, Persons

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• In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.

  Natsuo Kirino

  Reality, Order, People

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• Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Church, Next

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Things In Life, Agony

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• Be yourself,its the best thing you can be.

  Selena Gomez

  Being Yourself

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• And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.

  Jessica Valenti

  People, Insulting, Incredibles

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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