Best Things Quotes - Page 16

• College is the best thing that can ever happen to you," my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking.

  David Sedaris

  Father, Drinking, College

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• "Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Water, Way, Quitting

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.83, Random House

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• I don't know whether these feelings - this thing growing inside of me - is something horrible and sick or the best thing that's ever happened to me. Either way, I can't stop it. I've lost control. And the truly sick thing is that despite everything, I'm glad.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sick, Feelings, Growing

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.217, Hachette UK

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• The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Photography, I Hate You

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• Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hurt, Tired, Past

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

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• Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour." "Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me ... no competition ... best thing that ever happened to you ... " " I don't remember that last part," I say, hoping it's too dim in here for the cameras to pick up my blush. " Oh, that's right. That's what I was thinking," he says " Scoot over, I'm freezing.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Long, Competition

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• You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Ideas, Lasts, Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

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• The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wisdom, May, Being The Best

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.46, Publishdrive

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• So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

  A. A. Milne

  Book, Writing, Introduction

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.6, Egmont UK

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• Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Country, Beach, Sleep

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• Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Knowing, Conviction

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• sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen

  Candace Bushnell

  Sometimes, Things To Do, Happens

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• I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!

  Beyonce Knowles

  Want, Being The Best, Used

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• Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.

  Kate Brian

  Boys, Thinking, News

  Kate Brian (2008). “Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Love Is, Opposites, People

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• Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

  Lauren Oliver

  Change, Letting Go, Running

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• but it's not always as set as that. Some things, though, feel like they're right. You and me? It's one of those things. I don't know why they see or why things are such a mess, but in the middle of it all, I do know that being around you is one of tue best things that happened to me in, well, ever.

  Melissa Marr

  Middle, Wells, Feels

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• The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.

  Jim Butcher

  Creepy, Godmother, Harry Dresden

  "Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book Thirteen". Book by Jim Butcher, July 28, 2011.

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• The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power from on high that comes down into the world, that wells up from the rock-bottom worst of the world like a hidden spring. Can you believe it? The last, best thing is the laughing deep in the hearts of the saints, sometimes our hearts even. Yes. You are terribly loved and forgiven. Yes. You are healed. All is well.

  Frederick Buechner

  Spring, Believe, Heart

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• ... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

  Jandy Nelson

  Worst, Happens, Knows

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.88, Penguin

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• The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time

  Bob Dylan

  Sleep, Past, Men

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes the best things look the strangest.

  Wendy Mass

  Looks, Sometimes

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• I dug out the powder blue cashmere cardigan my mother Lisa gave me the Christmas before last, pulled on my oldest, softest Levi’s. Comfort clothes; the next best thing to a hug from a warm, living body. Lately there had been a shortage of hugs in my life. Lately there had been a shortage of warm, living bodies.

  Josh Lanyon

  Mother, Blue, Clothes

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• Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

  Wendell Berry

  Sermons

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.

  Brenda Jackson

  People, Sometimes, Tendencies

  Brenda Jackson (2011). “Temptation & Spontaneous: Temptation\Spontaneous”, p.305, Harlequin

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