Top 100 The One Best Quotes
#1. I don't want to pretend that everything is black and white, that people are either all good or all bad, and that I'm the one best qualified to tell the difference.
C.J. Redwine
#2. Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
Samuel Butler
#3. A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself ... so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.
Eugene O'Neill
#4. There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?
Aristotle.
#5. The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.
Ben Hur Lampman
#6. It's so childish, greatest country in the world. It's like saying, I have the best wife in the world. Not just the one best suited for me, the best wife in the world. And if you could have my wife, you'd kill your wife.
Bill Maher
#7. Instead of pursuing many-sided mediocrity and calling it "well-roundedness," a definite person determines the one best thing to do and then does it.
Peter Thiel
#8. Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on.
Maya Tiwari
#9. Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.
Wesley Clark
#10. For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.
Marjane Satrapi
#11. Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
Marie Rutkoski
#13. Spurs are up against one of the top coaches in the world if not one of the best in the world
Aidy Boothroyd
#14. Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength and he is a genuine competitor.
Thierry Henry
#15. Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven ... My message certainly is not one of complacency. In this I agree with the doomsayers: our world needs the best efforts of all humanity to improve our lot.
Julian Simon
#16. But destiny will be accomplished, and the best man will hold his ground while the undeserving one will vanish into his back-alley for ever - his filthy back-alley, his beloved back-alley, where he is at home and where he will sink in filth and stench at his own free will with enjoyment.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#17. He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.
Steve Waugh
#18. The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.
John Perry Barlow
#19. Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.
Karen Blixen
#20. Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?
Paul Keating
#21. He wanted to come along, said the one in the corner, the only one who hadn't yet tried to kill Phillip. Phillip decided he liked this one best, especially when he wrapped his hand around Gregory's forearm to prevent the younger man from launching himself at Eloise. Which,
Julia Quinn
#22. Our best moral stories don't tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We're not supposed to have it handed to us.
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
#23. One of the best things Dr. G. told me was that I didn't have to judge every new situation I encountered. Living alone, for example. She said I didn't have to say that living alone was good or bad, I could just live alone and not make a judgement on it.
Natalie Taylor
#24. Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain't trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl what ain't waiting on some man to do what she ought to her own damn self.
J.D. Jordan
#25. I have always contended that girls are the sturdier of the genders and wondered in secret if the One that Is might not best be identified with the creativity of the female heart.
Tosca Lee
#26. If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.
Suzanne Vega
#27. I did short film with Damian Lewis from Homeland, that was a really incredible experience. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with. Even though that's a short film for Jaguar that's really, in essence, a commercial, it didn't feel like it, at all.
Shannyn Sossamon
#28. I often think that the last holiday is the greatest, but then some really stand out in my mind. One of the best was one my wife and I had in the Lake District. We stayed in a B&B and walked around the countryside for two weeks.
Jay Parini
#29. I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.
Len Goodman
#30. One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.
Sheryl WuDunn
#31. It is by far the best plan, therefore, to mingle leisure with business, whenever chance impediments or the state of public affairs forbid one's leading an active life: for one is never so cut off from all pursuits as to find no room left for honorable action.
Seneca.
#32. The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.
Dr. Seuss
#33. Since no one said anything, I decided to make offense my best ... offense. You didn't call me up here to kill me, did you? Or to pay me back for staking you? Because the last time I saw you upright, you were ... rude.
Faith Hunter
#34. Caring for the one who worries about you is the best thing you can do to strengthen the relationship.
Mohith Agadi
#35. Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
Sophocles
#36. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.
Eckhart Tolle
#37. We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all
Nelson Mandela
#38. In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.
John Ruskin
#39. Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un ...
Billy F. Gibbons
#40. No lie, just had one of the best times of my life at Rucker park..wow! I love NYHarlem waddup.
Kevin Durant
#41. If the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.
Jacqueline Winspear
#42. But the pain I felt was excruciating. It was as if my life had ended. Here I was in my early twenties and the best part of my life was over. Do you see how terrible that would be? I had suc potential, then woke up one day and it had gone.
Haruki Murakami
#43. One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.
Amanda Palmer
#44. The best way to lose a woman was to show her a kind of life that one could offer her for only a few days.
Erich Maria Remarque
#45. Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
Joseph Joubert
#47. I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best.
Halsey
#48. Willy, one of the guys at the distillery, comes up with what Oliver and I agree is the best definition of what a 'dram' actually is: 'A measure of whisky that is pleasing to both guest and host.
Iain Banks
#49. The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.
Steve Maraboli
#50. I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
Daniel Gilbert
#51. One of the things I love best about [my] 'Kind Diet' is that you will actually become part of the solution to our global problems.
Alicia Silverstone
#52. Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
Os Guinness
#54. Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.
Raghuram G. Rajan
#55. New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
Matt Bomer
#56. The kind of juvenile story I like best to write
and read, too, for the matter of that
is a good, jolly one, "art for art's sake," or rather "fun for fun's sake," with no insidious moral hidden away in it like a pill in a spoonful of jam!
L.M. Montgomery
#57. I think perhaps a better thing to want is fulfillment. A deeper state, one that comes from within, from being your best self. From living life the way you really wish to live it. Then, happiness emanates from within as a byproduct. Naturally.
Kamal Ravikant
#58. I did a show called 'Bakersfield, P.D.' That was one of the best things I have ever done.
Ron Eldard
#59. Julian is a very dangerous hunter. One of our best. Second to your father, he is perhaps the most powerful Carpathian alive.
I guess we aren't considering you, Savannah said loyally, truthfully.
Christine Feehan
#60. It's best not to experiment on yourself. Bacon practically froze himself to death in one of his experiments and died of pneumonia."
{Right! Bacon must be heated. Knew that already, but thanks for the reminder.}
Kevin Hearne
#61. I think that if one is seeking to build a truly satisfying relationship, the best way of bringing this about is to get to know the deeper nature of the person and relate to her or him on that level, instead of merely on the basis of superficial characteristics.
Howard C. Cutler
#62. Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.
Sasha Azevedo
#63. Sylvester wins, obviously [best actor in a supporting role in 2016]. That's the whole point of this. We're all getting dressed up to go to the Oscars to hear Sylvester Stallone, let no one get this twisted. The academy can't pay for a better moment than this: this is the Oscar's original darling.
Bun B.
#64. I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.
Johnny Carson
#65. He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?"
-- Marlene Dietrich's character in Touch Of Evil, originally written by Whit Masterson as Badge Of Evil. One of the best closing sequences you'll see in classical Hollywood
Whit Masterson
#66. There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford
#67. Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#68. The best thing you can do for the poor is..not be one of them
Andrew Matthews
#69. 'Billie Jean' was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.
Theophilus London
#70. I've fallen for the one person I shouldn't have. For the boy who broke Mary's heart. For Rennie's one true love. For Alex's best friend.
It has to end here. Now.
Jenny Han
#71. For years Paul Scholes has been one of the best players in the Premiership. He's incredible. He has always been under-rated throughout his career. He's a team player, a one and two-touch footballer who makes good decisions on the pitch and makes his team play.
Thierry Henry
#72. I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.
Rebecca Solnit
#74. One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading.
Neil Gaiman
#75. One thing I've learned is that strange things do happen. They happen all the time. Today, for instance, my best friend Jill's cat spoke. We were making brownies in the kitchen when we heard it say, 'Let me out.
Alice Hoffman
#76. One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is that you could bring all the best talents in the world together and produce a big turkey.
Kevin Spacey
#77. And we dance all night to The Best Song ever!
-One Direction
One Direction
#78. Expressing gratitude for the miracles in your world is one of the best ways to make each moment of your life a special one. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones!
Wayne Dyer
#79. The theory of the "wisdom of crowds" says that if you aggregate many different opinions from a diverse group of people, you are much more likely to arrive at the best opinion than if you just listen to one specialist.
Simon Kuper
#80. The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#81. I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
Hannibal Buress
#82. One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings
Timothy Zahn
#83. One of the best feelings in the world is when you hug someone you love, and they hug you back even tighter.
Chris Vonada
#84. The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.
Lao-Tzu
#85. What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#86. Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.
Benjamin Franklin
#87. I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.
Bill Gates
#88. Sir Alex, one of the best managers of all time. After 26 years of success in the game, we all owe him a tribute.
Vincent Kompany
#89. Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
Nadine Gordimer
#90. I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." (L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
John Eldredge
#91. Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.
Choi Hong Hi
#92. I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world. They made me America's Number one Pin Up.
Cindy Margolis
#93. I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day.
Lisa McMann
#94. I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.
Vivienne Westwood
#95. The original 'Caddyshack' with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray is one of the best comedies ever made.
Jonathan Silverman
#96. Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you.
Lana Del Rey
#97. When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.
Herman Melville
#98. I hit Damian Fuller with a left hook that left him laid out for 30-45 minutes. They brought oxygen to him, they couldn't wake him up, he was out cold. The television station kept having to take breaks, he was out so long. It was unbelievable. That was the best one-shot I've ever done in my life.
Diego Corrales
#99. If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.
Alexander Payne
#100. The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can
Bert McCracken
