Quotes of: Best-intentions Keyword

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.” “Well,” I said, “if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it.

Hex Appeal

When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.

The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow

Life isn't about the brand of clothes you wear, or about who looks the best. It's about the number of faces which smile when they hear your name

The Human Women Guide

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

The Haunting of Hill House

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

The Word of God is your best defence against the troubles of this world.

The Bare Bones Bible Handbook: 10 Minutes to Understanding Each Book of the Bible

A blanket could be used as a trap to ensnare two entangled lovers. Using this method is how I found my current girlfriend and my new best guy friend. 

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

Hey there, Hallie, welcome to the next place we need a Deer Crossing sign.' I didn't know that deers could read.' They can in Cosgrove County. It's part of the program.

Best Bet

The party at the bar was for an Internet literary journal that prints a hard copy version that was famous in the world of Internet literary journals that prints hard copy versions. What that means, I do not know.

Best Behavior

Your best days are still out in front of you. So stop looking behind you and keep your focus on your roads ahead!

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

Bag of Bones

A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance

Best Served Cold

Are you entirely sure of that knot?' asked Morveer. 'There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop'. 'Twenty-eight strides', said Friendly. 'What?' 'The drop'. A brief pause, 'That is not helpful'.

Best Served Cold

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

Best Served Cold

[S]ometimes people make a mistake for so long that it starts to feel like it's not a mistake at all. And then one day, you tell yourself it's for the best.

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

[...] death follows us around for a reason. It's because death is our best adviser. There is nothing more powerful than a person who is prepared to live right now, in this instant, fully accepting that this may be their last moment on earth.

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Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.

Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn't Good Enough

A brick could be used in a levitation demonstration. The best way to keep it afloat, along with the American Dream, is with debt and denial. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.

The Boleyn Inheritance

- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.

The Brothers Karamazov