Top 100 Quotes About The Best
#1. Something has worked in the past, until - well, it unexpectedly no longer does, and what we have learned from the past turns out to be at best irrelevant or false, at worst viciously misleading.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#2. New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and they're playing confidently. And a lot of those guys were on field when they lost to LA. They'll take motivation in that.
Landon Donovan
#3. I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!
Matt Squire
#4. My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.
Rob Paulsen
#6. I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.
Lisa Vanderpump
#7. Don't readjust your contacts. No, that is not the slow hyena from The Lion King. That is my four-pound best friend.
Mamrie Hart
#9. I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.
Sharon Horgan
#10. Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
#11. People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a point when I would have liked to, but apparently that's just because I'm a bitch.
Dale Peck
#12. Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that could get in the way. But success is the best revenge, so build yourself up rather than knock others down.
Tavi Gevinson
#13. Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
Amos Bronson Alcott
#14. The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.
Silken Laumann
#15. There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. You have to practice and train to become the best.
Cus D'Amato
#16. The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to slip away quietly after having lived as fully as one can, doing the very best one can with the gifts one has been given.
Barbara Quick
#17. Oh, alright. You're no fun," he sighed. "My name is Razor."
"What kind of a name is that?"
"It's a nickname."
"What kind of a nickname is that?"
"Spike, Blade, Fang - all the good, deadly objects were already taken. It was the best I could do.
Ada Adams
#18. A great leader must serve the best interests of the people first, not those of multinational corporations. Human life should never be sacrificed for monetary profit. There are no exceptions.
Suzy Kassem
#19. Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.
Mouloud Benzadi
#20. The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.
Tyler Cowen
#21. I've always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.
Michael Franks
#22. One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#23. I think the most important recipe for a good date is just spending time with somebody and really connecting and feeling like the best version of yourself regardless of what you may be doing.
Sophia Bush
#24. Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.
John Niven
#25. I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.
Gene Wolfe
#26. Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.
David Parnas
#27. When it comes to relationships, I find it best to have two feet out the door
Josh Stern
#28. That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.
Alice Hoffman
#29. Nonfear is the basis of true happiness, and if you can offer nonfear to someone, you are giving that person the best kind of gift.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#30. It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
Jack O'Brien
#31. I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'
Bob Newhart
#32. As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.
Shane Claiborne
#33. Critical thinking is essential to make sense of our world, especially with advertisers and politicians all telling us loudly that they know best. We need to be able to look at the evidence and work out whether we agree with them.
Helen Czerski
#34. Savory ... that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.
Ray Bradbury
#35. I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.
Trey Songz
#36. The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.
Fred Wilson
#37. No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.
Lisa Kleypas
#38. Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#39. I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be angry, but anger is not a plan. Here's what I want to do, and that's why I hope you will support me, because I think it will actually improve the lives of Americans."
Hillary Clinton
#40. Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#41. Forgiveness is "selective remembering" - a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless - it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.
Marianne Williamson
#42. If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
Jim Butcher
#43. The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions.
Jon Gordon
#44. I am a professional liar. I am two people. I take pleasure in experimenting with people's emotions, people who trust me, putting their understanding of me in doubt. Basically, I am the best thing that could have happened to you.
A.M. Bakalar
#45. Along those lines, to get personal for a moment, I think the best way to die would be swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet first and whole into a slimy maw would give your life perfect symmetry.
Joseph Fink
#46. The best we can do is, treat people with sincere respect. Staying is their choice. If they want to leave, they've every right to.
Sarvesh Jain
#47. Bring up the past only if it will help to build the future, otherwise its best to be left to sleep
Tahir M Khan
#48. The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.
Bo Ryan
#49. We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her.
Robert Jordan
#50. The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.
Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you
find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
Debbi Fields
#52. I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.
Anne Campbell
#53. The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
Christopher Buckley
#54. No man who worships education has got the best out of education ... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
G.K. Chesterton
#55. I hate seeing fat girls on TV or in movies, because the only way the world seems to be okay with putting a fat person on camera is if they're miserable with themselves or if they're the jolly best friend. Well, I'm neither of those things.
Julie Murphy
#57. If you make your best friend and your significant other the same person, you don't have to disconnect to go tell your girlfriend everything.
Niecy Nash
#58. Best friends are the chicks who make your problems theirs so you guys can form a gangsta posse and beat those problems to hell.
Celia Kyle
#59. Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we're going to stay lost.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#60. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
George Gordon Byron
#61. The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.
Michael Jordan
#63. Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
Helen Gurley Brown
#64. You know how they say revenge is best served up cold? I'd say it's best not served up at all. Revenge is a great motivator, but it doesn't help achieve the desired results. I've seen guys lose buddies, then go off half-cocked, piss fuel running through their veins. Things never turned out well.
Ellen Hopkins
#65. You still smell like the best thing I've ever tasted.
Lauren Dane
#66. Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters.
Deborah Moggach
#67. I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#68. If you want to be your best, spend a lot of time exploring what is more than enough. Push yourself until the bar is lying immobile across your chest. Push yourself right off the edge of your capacity.
Brad Alan Lewis
#69. 'Killing Pablo' to me - as much as I love 'The Grey's script - 'Killing Pablo' to me is the best thing I've ever written.
Joe Carnahan
#70. You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.
Carla Harris
#71. a tyrant, and a conqueror. He was never elected to the office. He would probably laugh at the idea. And if he did somehow decide to hold elections, he would magic the masses into electing him, because he would honestly believe that he was best qualified to rule wisely. Having
Ilona Andrews
#72. Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.
Tryon Edwards
#73. Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.
George Henry Borrow
#74. To have a restful or peaceful life in God is good; to bear a life of pain in patience is better; but to have peace in the midst of pain is the best of all.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#75. You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.
Marie Osmond
#77. I am quite an admirer of Fidel [Castro]. For me, Fidel is the first and the best man in solidarity with the peoples of the world. Fidel shares not just what he does not need, but every little thing he has. That is called solidarity.
Evo Morales
#78. To have a lover and friend in one was the best love of all.
Joan Smith
#79. Don't know why folks need diamonds and pearls, fur coats, first-class tickets, island adventures when simple shit like this is the best thing you could ever do.
Kristen Ashley
#80. They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That's my motto.
Joe R. Lansdale
#81. The best way to punish a good deed is to announce it to everyone else.
C.J. Redwine
#82. I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.
Cokie Roberts
#83. The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best gift she has give me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough.
Ann Kidd Taylor
#84. That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
William Shakespeare
#85. Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best.
Edward Hirsch
#86. So that all the people who say, you know, "All the media hates America." A lot of the media does hate America but this is a case of, actually, the press doing its best, I think, to do the right by national security. So good for them.
Tucker Carlson
#87. Leave Ueno Station through the park entrance, go past the concert hall and museums, skirt around the fountain, and you come to a sort of tree garden. Homeless people live here, in tents made of sky-blue plastic sheeting and wooden poles. The best tents even have doors.
David Mitchell
#88. If movies and music are vehicles for emotionally "hooking" people into Hollywood worldviews, then the best countermeasure is to create more compelling, more beautiful forms of art that express a biblical worldview.
Nancy Pearcey
#89. Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
James Freeman Clarke
#90. This is the best thing that could've happened for the 2011 season - Bolt losing like this and having to go away.
Ato Boldon
#91. All that is known for sure is that endometriosis is endemic and that it cannot be cured. Management is the best hope. This makes for treatments that are, if I am being polite, based on trial and error. If I am feeling less generous, they are shots in the dark.
Rose George
#92. That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.
Gordon Banks
#93. There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.
Jamie Smith
#95. So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.
Geraldine Brooks
#96. Jayfeather might be one of the best, but there were days when being trained by a badger might be easier.
Erin Hunter
#97. Book collecting! First editions and best editions; old books and new books - the ones you like and want to have around you. Thousands of 'em. I've had more honest satisfaction and happiness collecting books than anything else I've ever done in life.
Peter Ruber
#98. To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.
Dave Winfield
#99. I sang because that is what I do when I am happy and when I'm sad. I sang because it is who I am when I am being the best possible version of me.
Ally Carter
#100. The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.
Paul Ince
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