Top 100 The Best Thing To Do Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.
Etta James
#3. Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.
Lauren Oliver
#4. If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don't have to say anything. Be friendly and then go do
your best. That will make you special, too!
Jeff Hutchins
#5. When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Camilo Jose Cela
#6. The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Ambrose Bierce
#7. I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out.
LeSean McCoy
#8. All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the best thing to do was to tell everyone I worked with that I'm just shy. People are not mind readers - you need to let them know.
Douglas Conant
#9. The best thing to do is just know that there's a big difference between style and fashion, and that one doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the other.
Kelly Cutrone
#10. The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#11. I think once an author is attacking people for leaving Amazon reviews, common sense has shut up shop and gone home, and the best thing to do is not engage at all.
K.J. Charles
#12. The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.
Anne Stuart
#13. I've found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason.
Marci Shimoff
#14. When people hurt us, the best thing to do isn't to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn't our fault.
Michael Thomas Ford
#15. When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
Carla Bley
#16. In a lot of ways, certain things, it feels like they're never going to go away. The best thing to do is continue to ask questions, look that fear in the eye.
Tyler Blackburn
#17. I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
Patricia Heaton
#18. If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do
Lindsey Kelk
#19. In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.
Woody Allen
#20. On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don't bash our heads. On the English bus, we bash our heads every morning. It's not the best thing to do first thing when you wake up.
Liam Payne
#21. The best time is now. The best thing to do is what you are doing. So do your very best.
Debasish Mridha
#22. The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.
W. Somerset Maugham
#23. My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
Karl Lagerfeld
#24. But the problem is that even if you know that is the best thing to do, you often don't do it.
... it is true. It's as if there were two people inside you. One says: do this. Another says: do that. But both voices are inside the same person.
Alexander McCall Smith
#25. If you haven't found your calling yet, the best thing to do is get your butt off your chair, fill your life with a wide array of unusual experiences, and allow yourself to bump into what will exhilarate you.
Kate White
#26. It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
Mary J. Blige
#27. The best thing to do - usually - was to let him play these things out. Who was I to tell a genius it was time to put his clothes back on?
Kristopher Jansma
#28. When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.
Anthony Bourdain
#29. If you feel someone suspicious is following you, the best thing to do is to talk on your cell phone, Even if you just act as if someone is on the other end, it will make them think twice.
Arthur Mitchell
#30. I think this was a bad idea,' he repeated. 'I think the best thing to do would be to forget all about this and just go back home. We can chalk it up to experience,
John Boyne
#31. I don't think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the impact, then you're not really coming from a truthful place. I think the best thing to do for me is what's worked in the past.
David Duchovny
#32. The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can always pull those nice little tidbits that hook people, that shows that you know about this world and can bring people into a world that they may not know nothing about.
Ice Cube
#33. If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.
Deborah Davis
#34. The best thing to do now, is to do the very best you can.
Allen Drury
#35. If you're frightened of leprechauns, the best thing to do is to get yourself a little leprechaun outfit and see how big they are. And then you'll go, 'Well I see. That's like bein' frightened of a hampster.'
Craig Ferguson
#36. Sometimes the best thing to do is to
pretend it didn't happen
Candace Bushnell
#37. Of course you are. Emotions are totally irrational half the time." Her ice blue eyes lock onto me. "But you have full control over how you deal with them. Acknowledging that something is irrational and refraining from taking it out on someone is the best thing to do.
Kelley York
#38. I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.
Lawrence Hill
#39. The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
Philip Johnson
#40. The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.
Robert Duvall
#41. This world is suchier than we are, and the best thing to do is keep moving and find your keys.
Daniel Handler
#42. The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.
Terri Clark
#43. This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes.
Lysa TerKeurst
#44. To destroy the need to learn, this is the best thing to do: to gone feeling that you already know. Then there's no question of learning, no need to become a disciple. You are satisfied, in your grave. You are dead.
Osho
#45. You just came out of the hospital ten days ago," Milo reminded him reprovingly. "You can't keep running into the hospital every time something happens you don't like. No, the best thing to do is fly the missions. It's our duty.
Joseph Heller
#46. e ego never ever disappears. It may hide, mutate, or transform, but it never ceases to exist. Even a suicidal person about to pull the trigger has an ego confirming that pulling the trigger is the best thing to do.
Ben Tolosa
#47. There comes a time in every young girl's life when she is instructed by a complete stranger to scale a tall ladder for dinner atop a roof, and in almost every case the best thing to do is refuse and run home to call the asylum from which the stranger escaped.
Gina Damico
#48. It was difficult to think what to do, and, as she often did in such circumstances, Mma Ramotswe decided that the best thing to do would be to go shopping.
Alexander McCall Smith
#49. If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.
Frederick Lenz
#50. if you want to be able to talk about a place, the best thing to do is stay at home.
Pierre Bayard
#51. I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.
Taylor Swift
#52. it was obviously the best thing to do if both Britain and France were against it. After
Liaquat Ahamed
#53. The best thing to do with a bad smell is to get rid of it.
Carol Kendall
#54. Doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.
Robert A. Heinlein
#55. The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.
Brandon Cruz
#56. Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.
Nick Hornby
#57. When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.
Marina Abramovic
#58. no place is how you expect it to be, and the best thing to do is to not want things in the first place.
Carrot Quinn
#59. The best thing to do is create a lagom number of processes. Erlang comes from Sweden, and the word lagom loosely translated means "not too few, not too many, just about right." Some say that this summarizes the Swedish character.
Joe Armstrong
#60. The best thing to do with a mimeograph is to drop it from a five story window, on the head of a cop
Diane Di Prima
#61. I've never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently.
Chuck Liddell
#62. I'm not a prophet. I'm a destiny-changer. It's all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you've got the power.
Sun Ra
#63. . . .I think a lot of people just don't want to go back. Sometimes that's the best thing to do--to live in the present.
Jamie Ford
#64. Charming's a pain in the ass, but he finds trouble the way a hog roots out truffles. The best thing to do for now is let him loose and follow the trail of bodies." "It
Elliott James
#65. I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn't get any worse.
Peter Cameron
#66. Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do.
Daniel Craig
#67. If the future looks dark, all you have to do is to find a candle and carry it with you! If it looks bright, the best thing to do is still to carry that candle, because the future can always create a different story! Always carry a candle by your side!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#68. When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#69. The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"
Kurt Fuller
#70. The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.
Guy Ritchie
#71. These issues are so important. I just felt the best thing to do right now is contribute and go forward.
Bill Luther
#72. Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.
Gilda Radner
#73. The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger ...
Sarah Waters
#74. The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get ... what you regard as 'too far'
and when others follow, as they will, move on.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#75. I tell her that the best thing to do when you fall is to get up,
And she is up, so she's moving in the right direction.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#76. The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
Kristin Armstrong
#77. The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully.
Mark Helprin
#78. He always said that when you had something difficult to tell someone, the best thing to do was to start with the hardest thing you could imagine telling that person.
Ingrid Seymour
#79. I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.
Banana Yoshimoto
#80. If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do - the only thing - is run. In
Lauren Oliver
#82. When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it
George R R Martin
#83. No, the best thing to do was to get the heck out of the bathroom and find a teacher, or a cop, or an exorcist. I'd take anyone at this point.
Rachel Hawkins
#84. Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.
Jon Voight
#85. Those parts of yourself that you desperately want to hide and destroy will gain power over you. The best thing to do is face and own them, because they are forever a part of you.
Janet Mock
#86. I think that the best profession or the best thing to do is to be a public servant. I mean there's nothing better than working for the people - for the common people and being a public servant, and I have seen this.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#87. The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.
Bill Hader
#88. You don't come to terms with something before you do it. It's only after you've done it that you realize, you know, maybe that wasn't the best thing to do. Sometimes you gotta fall down to know the feeling to get up.
DMX
#89. The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
Jack Hannah
#90. I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.
Victoria Justice
#91. With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is to go to the racetrack, a horse show, a rodeo, or some other horsey activity, and watch the horses. Familiarize yourself with the way they move and behave themselves.
Jane Smiley
#92. {My mom] long ago advised me, when I was feeling blue or self-doubting about men, that the best thing to do was go out and buy a red lipstick or a red dress. 'It will be your red badge of courage,' she said.
Maureen Dowd
#93. I've learned the hard way that the best thing to do is say nothing about what you're really thinking. If you say nothing, they'll assume you're thinking nothing, only what you let them see.
Jennifer Niven
#94. The best thing to do against life was to fold the paper so that it made a perfect
square, crisp, thick, impervious even to life.
Virginia Woolf
#95. I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.
Helen Mirren
#96. People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.
Frederick Lenz
#97. So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
A.A. Milne
#98. The best thing to do is always keep randomly generated passwords everywhere and use a password tool to manage it, and then you don't have to remember those passwords at all, just the master password that unlocks the database.
Kevin Mitnick
#100. All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
Arnold Bennett
