Best Things Quotes - Page 28

• The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

  Orson Scott Card

  Jobs, The End Of The Day, Stopping

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• The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (1977). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919”, Chatto & Windus

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• When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Boys, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3863, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

  John Steinbeck

  Good Things, Happens, Ifs

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.505, Penguin

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• Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.

  Russell Howard

  Moving, Mean, Wife

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• Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Blessing, Disaster

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• After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

  Anthony Trollope

  Fear, Next, Grudge

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• Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.

  Joe Bastianich

  Simple, Done, Being The Best

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• The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there's Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn't know anything about. He has no discipline.

  Barry Goldwater

  Thinking, Discipline, Letters

  "Barry Goldwater's Left Turn". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 1994.

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• Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.

  John Steinbeck

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.54, Penguin

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• The best thing a writer can do is walk. Walking gives you ideas.

  Tony Grisoni

  Ideas, Giving, Walks

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• Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didn’t know how to read the signs.

  Jan Hellriegel

  Worst, Disguise, Realising

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• A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read. It creates no atmosphere in which it may be perused, but one in which its teachings may be practiced. It confers on me such wealth that I lay it down with regret. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Regret, Book, Teaching

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• The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

  George Best

  Dad, Son, Men

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• Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.

  Alan Cheuse

  Writing, Trying, Habit

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• You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

  Eli Roth

  Horror, Film, Knows

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• Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

  Ken Robinson

  School, Mind, Sometimes

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.146, Penguin

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• I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Apples, Wife, Vinegar

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• Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.

  Brett Davern

  Communication, World, Honest

  "Meet Brett Davern from Awkward". Interview with Sarah Ramirez, www.seventeen.com. September 26, 2011.

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• We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want to know mountains too, but they’ve got no story. So we do the next best thing. We throw ourselves onto them and make the stories happen.

  Bruce Barcott

  People, Secret, Mountain

  Bruce Barcott (2011). “Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier”, p.72, Sasquatch Books

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• There was this one model in French Elle. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be her. She was brunette with big lips and was wearing this tight navy dress by Azzedine someone. She was so beautiful; and the choices she must have. and…Oh, I would give it all up just to have been born that way because her life will be so easy. She won’t have to think, and men will fall into her lap and…It’s all unfair and I don’t want to even write it.
  It will never change, and no one wants to admit it but being thin and pretty is the best thing a woman can be.

  Rae Earl

  Beautiful, Fall, Writing

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• Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Book, World, Clubs

  Interview with Margo Hammond, Ellen Heltzel, www.goodhousekeeping.com. August 1, 2005.

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• The best things in life are crazy.

  Emme

  Crazy, Things In Life, Best Things In Life

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• The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Simplicity, Lines

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• One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that you can pass it along to someone who has never heard the expression.

  Shaun Tomson

  Expression, Essence, Surfing

  Shaun Tomson, Patrick J. Moser (2006). “Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life”, p.134, Gibbs Smith

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