Charles Best Quotes

No matter the circumstances, teachers show up each day ready to give their students every opportunity possible, and they never give up.

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• In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Blue

• When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • People
  • Home
  • Happy

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Penalty
  • Those

• It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Reality
  • Gay
  • Leader

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Needs
  • According
  • His

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Down
  • Build
  • Carpenter

• The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Country
  • High

• I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Pride
  • Laugh
  • Marry

• We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Want
  • Box

• True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • True
  • Picture

• A man in the house is worth two in the street.

  

  Mae West
  • House
  • Man
  • Street

• I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.

  

  Sam Houston
  • World
  • Politics
  • Making

• I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

  

  Barack Obama
  • I Can
  • Forward
  • Pen

• The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Want
  • Design
  • Building

• My ignorance is widespread.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Ignorance
  • Widespread

• They don't like their generation's music, so they find some that they do like!

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Music
  • Like
  • Generations

• It's an interesting point about sisters not getting the same attention as parents and children, and even brothers. I suspect it's just because women didn't count that much and weren't the ones writing the accounts.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Children

• I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• I just went to the hobby shop and got an electricity kit and a chemistry kit, and I'm really excited to do experiments like squeezing an egg into a bottle and growing crystals. I'm really getting into hobbies.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Growing

• DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.

  

  Doris Day
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Men

• No matter the circumstances, teachers show up each day ready to give their students every opportunity possible, and they never give up.

  

  Charles Best
  • Up
  • Opportunity