- Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
- Marian Wright Edelman on Best
- Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
- George Orwell on Best
- Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
- Alexander Pope on Best
- Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
- Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.
- Henry Louis Gates on Best
- People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
- Margaret Cho on Best
- People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
- William Butler Yeats on Best
- Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Best
- Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
- Stanley Kubrick on Best
- Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt on Best
- Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
- Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
- Alfred North Whitehead on Best
- Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley on Best
- Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
- James A. Garfield on Best
- Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
- Edward Abbey on Best
- Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Best
- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
- Ambrose Bierce on Best
- Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
- Alexander Pope on Best
- Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
- Samuel Butler on Best
- Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
- Samuel Smiles on Best
- Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
- Mark Twain on Best
- Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
- Sheena Easton on Best
- Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
- Bruno Bettelheim on Best
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