Besting Quotes

#1. It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess.

Harper Lee

#2. he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to 'ninety k' and 'a quarter of a mill', and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light: his cleverness, his quick thinking, his besting of slower, stupider yet more senior colleagues...

Robert Galbraith

#3. Unlike Champions, Godmothers don't have to keep undergoing ridiculous ordeals every time one turns around. Our idea of besting a dragon is not to chop it into bits, but to get it to sit down to tea.

Mercedes Lackey

#4. The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torchbearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.

J. Christopher Herold

#5. Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.

Timothy Findley

#6. What I know: every relationship is its own place, a country you live in for awhile and then you leave.

Billie Hinton

#7. The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

Chevy Chase

#8. It's always better to live with good stuff than it is to live without someone you wanna give all your good stuff to.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#9. You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.

Winslow Homer

#10. Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

Rupert Murdoch

#11. I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.

Dmitry Medvedev

#12. In two words, impossible.

Samuel Goldwyn

#13. Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

Roy Barnes

#14. In nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem.
In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

Jodi Picoult

#15. People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

Nicole Kidman

#16. And youth, though they see every day the cradle and grave shaped so alike, never believe death will happen to them. I told you it was a comedy.

Parke Godwin

#17. No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

Kristin Armstrong

#18. Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.

Rama Swami