Best Quotes

"In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so there's no reason for anyone to ever come at me because I only want the best for everybody else"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"Forethought is the best ally"

Cleobulus, Poet

"Moderation is best in all things"

Cleobulus, Poet

"The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"He serves his party best who serves his country best"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own"

Herodotus, Historian

"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Danger breeds best on too much confidence"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Hardware works best when it matters the least"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold"

Herodotus, Historian

"The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere"

Rebecca West, Author

"The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"Fear of failure has always been my best motivator"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family"

Chris Brown, Musician

"My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing"

Chris Brown, Musician

"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible"

Andy Warhol, Artist

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