Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle

Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
Henrik Ibsen

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.
Lita Ford

Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
Henrik Ibsen

During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.
James Cronin

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
Enid Nemy

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Russell Lynes

Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area.
Sue Wicks

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
Augustus Hare

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.
John Baldacci

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Tom Peters

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.
Simon Travaglia

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
Lactantius

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
Voltaire

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.
Mary MacLane

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.
Brit Hume

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
John Cheever

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza