Quotes About Not Settling For Second Best

#1. Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Robert Evans

#2. Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#3. Never settle for second when first is available

Lou Holtz

#4. Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.

Walter Scott

#5. I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.

Bruce Vilanch

#6. I think I'd convinced myself that all long-term relationships end up that way; I really thought I had no right to expect more.

Catherine Sanderson

#7. No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

Ravi Zacharias

#8. If romeo was really gone, never coming back, would it have mattered whether or not juliet had taken Paris up on his offer? Maybe she should have tried to settle into the left-over scraps of life that were left behind. Maybe that would have been as close to happiness as she could get.

Stephenie Meyer

#9. Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Peter S. Beagle

#10. His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.

Freya North

#11. I believe in doing vinyl. As long as vinyl can still be made into a high-quality standard, I'm going to still make all my records as a side A and a side B because that's how I grew up listening to music.

Jason Molina

#12. Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

Rick Wagoner

#13. But I don't want to read faster or older or any way else that might make the story disappear too quickly from where it's settling inside my brain, slowly becoming a part of me. A story I will remember long after I've read it for the second, third, tenth, hundredth time.

Jacqueline Woodson

#14. We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Hunter S. Thompson

#15. You have to keep a little bit extra fat on the body. The strength and conditioning guy is always all over me about it, but it seems to make guys bounce off me better.

Tony Amonte

#16. This was the second stage in my life, a step in my personal evolution
abandoning the idea of being different, and settling for normal ... Gradually I drew nearer to the world, and the world drew nearer to me.

Haruki Murakami

#17. Spain is not a racist country.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#18. As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

Adam Hamilton

#19. One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

Jeanne Moreau