Best Quotes

"I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq"

Ahmed Chalabi, Statesman

"That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden"

Bruce Dickinson, Musician

"Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months"

Cindy Margolis, Model

"I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?"

Cesar Chavez, Activist

"Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"This is our world, and we must make the best of it"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me"

Barry Levinson, Director

"I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once"

Barry McGuire, Musician

"In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best"

Althea Gibson, Athlete

"I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle"

Aaliyah, Musician

"Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse"

Anita Loos, Writer

"I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional"

Jerry Garcia, Musician

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy"

Denis Waitley, Writer

"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised"

Denis Waitley, Writer

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be"

Anne Frank, Writer

"The best mind-altering drug is the truth"

Lily Tomlin, Actress

"Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us"

John Selden, Statesman

"Old friends are best"

John Selden, Statesman

"I don't really care what's going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought"

Brett Favre, Athlete

"In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us"

Brigham Young, Leader

"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer"

Brian Greene, Physicist

"Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go"

Robert M. Pirsig, Philosopher

"I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player"

Steve Yzerman, Athlete

"Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood"

Claudia Cardinale, Actress

"Italy will always have the best food"

Diane von Furstenberg, Designer

"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, Designer

"I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day"

Tom Hooper, Director

"We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point"

Alan Shepard, Astronaut

"Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business"

Alan Shepard, Astronaut

"I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears"

James Herriot, Writer

"When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away"

Harold MacMillan, Politician

"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination"

Judi Dench, Actress

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