Best Quotes

"Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it"

James A. Garfield, President

"I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

"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, Athlete

"I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"I want to attract the best people into teaching"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time"

Buck Owens, Musician

"I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for"

Liv Ullmann, Actress

"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks"

Johann Gottfried von Herder, Philosopher

"One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black"

Charles Barkley, Athlete

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting"

e. e. cummings, Poet

"Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names"

Charles Barkley, Athlete

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"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, Director

"Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad"

A. A. Milne, Author

"Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love"

Eminem, Musician

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

"Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory"

Elie Wiesel, Novelist

"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements"

Elizabeth II, Royalty

"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

"You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be"

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Theologian

"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"This is where I have wasted the best years of my life"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country"

Greta Garbo, Actress

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