Best Quotes

"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose"

Charles Eames, Designer

"I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire"

Richard Krajicek, Athlete

"From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it"

Dudley Moore, Celebrity

"I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best"

Frida Kahlo, Painter

"Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions"

George Nethercutt, Politician

"And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"Seek home for rest, for home is best"

Thomas Tusser, Poet

"The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it"

Bill Klem, Athlete

"Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end"

John Webster, Playwright

"It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it's gonna take. And that is a really scary and vulnerable place to be, so having those songs be embraced is the best feeling in the world. That's been our dream our whole lives"

Hillary Scott, Musician

"Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application"

William Weld, Politician

"I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else"

Robert Quine, Musician

"I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength"

Woody Harrelson, Actor

"In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical"

Woody Harrelson, Actor

"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy"

Hesiod, Poet

"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos"

Bill Scott, Actor

"One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be"

Robert Browning, Poet

"He who laughs most, learns best"

John Cleese, Actor

"The best songs come from a place of honesty and truth"

Ed Sheeran, Musician

"Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot"

Roger Corman, Producer

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