You Did The Best You Could Quotes

#1. ... and who are you, anyway?"
"I'm Tina."
"Thank goodness!" I said so loudly she stepped back. "No silly-ass overdone names for you, m'girl."
"It's short for Christina Caresse Chavelle."
"Well, you did the best you could.

MaryJanice Davidson

#2. Whether you wanted it or not, you were born, you did the best you could, and then, whether you really wanted to or not, you died.

Terry Pratchett

#3. You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had.
I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson.
"Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.

Melissa Bank

#4. At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough.

Lori Deschene

#5. For the loser now
Will be later to win

Bob Dylan

#6. How do you want to be remembered?
~As someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

J.K. Rowling

#7. Do you regret your divorce? Was getting a divorce the best or worst thing that could have ever happened to you? Did you marry again? Will you marry again?

London Tracy

#8. it is not over until i win

Less Brown

#9. The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

Chuck Berry

#10. I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know ... they just didn't do it for me.

Laura Ramsey

#11. I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it.

Tom Hiddleston

#12. I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko.

Haruki Murakami

#13. The promises you make on your mother's deathbed are promises that are absolute; they're titanium. There's no way you're breaking them. I promised my mother that I would take care of my brother. That I would look after him. I kept my word. I did it the best way I could. By leaving.

Jenny Han

#14. Creativity is our only weapon against entropy

Dean Cavanagh

#15. Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields.

Julius Streicher

#16. Success is doing everything you could the right way and saying man, I did the best I could - that's success.

Aries Merritt

#17. She was never likely to say out loud, "I wish that I could marry a handsome prince," but knowing that if you did you'd probably open the door to find a stunned prince, a tied-up priest, and a Nac Mac Feegle grinning cheerfully and ready to act as best man definitely made you watch what you said.

Terry Pratchett

#18. One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

Ogden Nash

#19. At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

Sean Combs

#20. Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us enough information." I would add to that, "All the same, Sir, I'm not persuaded that we did the best we could with the information we had. Toward the end there, anyway, we had tons of information.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guessed you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.

Sarah Mlynowski

#22. I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.

Luke Perry

#23. If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.

Louise L. Hay

#24. On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.

Dan Mathews

#25. I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.

Hannah Storm

#26. I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.

Juliet Marillier

#27. You can't know if someone's really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.

Zooey Deschanel

#28. It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.

Damian Kulash

#29. Victory isn't defined by wins or losses. It is defined by effort. If you can truthfully say, 'I did the best I could, I gave everything I had,' then you're a winner.

Wolfgang Schadler

#30. She did the best that we could be; she was perfectly charming and perfectly loving. She was a dream. And she was the kind of dream that you remember when you wake up smiling.

Richard Dreyfuss

#31. Natalie wasn't the type of person who blamed others for the stupid things they did. She tried to be very understanding of their idiocy. Besides, they were probably doing the best they could. The world was a tough place, and it must be *so* much harder if you were stupid.

Elizabeth Gannon

#32. You can't always choose which. Sometimes you have to BE which.

Jonathan R. Miller

#33. My hero- is the Son of Adon Olam. He has already atoned for the evils that have been done. He did His best- the absolute best there could ever be- for the land. He saved Taerna- and me, and you- before we ever could know it. It is finished. The work is done.

Erika Mathews

#34. On the issue of Iraq, it is my hope, and my challenge to my colleagues, that our debate will be based on what is best for the future of our nation and for Iraq, not what's best for a political party or presidential campaign.

Mitch McConnell

#35. You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do. Are you going to make mistakes? Of course. But it is not failure if you make the full effort.

John Wooden

#36. What if that happened to me? i do have a chance to live. Am I making good use of it?

Paulo Coelho

#37. Do you know why I believe in the Lord Jesus and what He says? Because He has proved to me that He has my best interests at heart. What could He do that He did not do? He already gave His life for us (Romans 5:8-10; 8:32)

David Jeremiah