Famous Quotes

"We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods."

Virginia Woolf on Best

More quotes about Best

• "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

  John Wooden on Best

• "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

  Thomas Jefferson on Best

• "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

  Theodore Roosevelt on Best

• "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."

  e. e. cummings on Best

• "In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

  Dalai Lama on Best

More quotes by Virginia Woolf

• "It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

• "It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."

• "For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?"

• "Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

• "When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."