c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.
— Joshua Chamberlain
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
— Michelangelo
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
— Vanessa Kerry
The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.
— Larry David
We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.
— Tim Cook
Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
— T.I.
The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.
— Lakshmi Mittal
To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.
— Louis Tomlinson
Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers.
— Summer Sanders
In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.
— Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.
— Bernard Williams
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
— Jack Kerouac
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
— Beverley Mitchell
I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
— John Frusciante
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
— Henry A. Wallace
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
— Aldous Huxley
I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.
— Shirley Jackson
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
— Martin Scorsese
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
— Carl Hiaasen
I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.
— Dan Savage
When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.
— Michael Buble
I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
— Steve Martin
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
— Naomie Harris
The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
— Gary Shteyngart
The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.
— Matthew McConaughey
The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.
— Kevin P. Ryan
My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
— Nancy Duarte
I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.
— Robert Redford
We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.
— Robert E. Lee
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
— Oprah Winfrey
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
— Epictetus
I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
— Carl Bernstein
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
— Wendy Carlos
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
— J. Irwin Miller
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
— Konrad von Gesner
What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
— J. J. Abrams
I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.
— Jay-Z
You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.
— Tom Brady
I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences. I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.
— Yehuda Berg
Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.
— James Patterson
I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.
— Eva Longoria
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
— Helen Keller
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
— Jonathan Swift
You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.
— Harvey S. Firestone
Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.
— Scott Nearing
My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
— Al Franken
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
— James Monroe
Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
— Bob Cousy
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
— Rudyard Kipling
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
— Lord Byron
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
— Henry Ford
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
— Euripides
Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a higher note.
— Kimora Lee Simmons
A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
— Randi Weingarten
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
— Thomas Jefferson
Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.
— Edwin Louis Cole
The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.
— Jason Statham
Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
— Brene Brown
Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and one that is extraordinary. And the other sixteen are terrible.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
— Aeschylus
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
— Charles Dickens
The worst men often give the best advice.
— Francis Bacon
The best vision is insight.
— Malcolm Forbes
Just do what you do best.
— Red Auerbach
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
— Will Rogers
But men are men the best sometimes forget.
— William Shakespeare
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
— Pat Riley
The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.
— Sidney Crosby
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
— Kin Hubbard
I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
— Marcus Aurelius
The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.
— Arlen Specter
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
— Frank Gehry
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
— Rita Mae Brown
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
— Richard Whately
Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.
— Jasper Carrott
I feel the best after a workout - I'm sweaty and exhausted, but it also gives me an energy I really like.
— Hilary Rhoda
I look at my grandparents and what they dealt with in the Japanese internment in Arizona. That sense of perseverance, of making the best out of an incredibly bad situation, has always been something I drew inspiration from. I always ask myself, 'What in the world do I have to complain about?'
— Scott Fujita
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
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
— Noam Chomsky
In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.
— John Romero
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
I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player.'
— Kevin Durant
The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.
— Jean Reno
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
— Franklin Pierce
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
— Sonny Perdue
There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
— Joe DiMaggio
The night before I compete, I like to have steak. Meat is especially important for female athletes because it provides them with the nutrients they need to perform at their best.
— Sasha Cohen
Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
— Mike Ditka
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
— Peter Ustinov
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
— Karl Pilkington
Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'
— Eli Roth
Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and not give up. You have to do your best to practice and get better.
— Rick Riordan
In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.
— David Hasselhoff
Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back to the drawing board. The best way to skip some levels and to increase the odds of survival is to learn from others who have already played the game.
— Vivek Wadhwa
At United, there are great traditions, which you can't buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
The best art is realized when you can share the experience of making of it and not just the presentation of it, so that the audience is part of the creation and not just part of the consumption. Then it becomes much more full-bodied and robust.
— Ava DuVernay
I focus on making sure I'm sharp, and it doesn't matter who I am fighting. I need to perform at my best and try to elevate my game to the highest level I possibly can, so that is what I concentrate on doing.
— Robbie Lawler
I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have nothing to do, I'm going to be lazy. On the football field, it's every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.
— Von Miller
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
He who laughs most, learns best.
— John Cleese
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
— Mary Lou Retton
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
— Steve Wozniak
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
— Fred Rogers
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
— George Bernard Shaw
My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.
— Diana Lopez
Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
— Mark E. Hyman
Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
— Marilyn Manson
The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.
— Michael Jordan
I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.
— Chris Rock
I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.
— Terry Pratchett
That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.
— Rush Limbaugh
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
— Neil Gaiman
Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.
— Andrew Lo
I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
— J. Cole
Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
— Marcus Buckingham
The best clubs in the world are always the clubs where you have a variety of people. Like, you have the crazy people, you have the nicely dressed people, you have the office people, you have the regular guys - that makes it fun.
— Tiesto
Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.
— Walter Payton
My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.
— Elyn Saks
Friends always ask me what the best Indian restaurant in L.A. is. I'm like, 'I don't know, dude. I have an app on my iPhone for that.'
— Noureen DeWulf
My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.
— Allan McNish
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.
— Steven Pinker
I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of anything that's best of breed.
— Robert Scoble
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
— Christopher Marlowe
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
— Will Rogers
I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.
— Marlee Matlin
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
— George Halas
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
— Albert Einstein
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
— Zig Ziglar
When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.
— Sting
Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.
— Rory Culkin
Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it.
— Jay Hernandez
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
Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.
— Kieran Culkin
I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.
— Marsha Thomason
There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.
— Bill Simmons
Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
— Yoko Ono
By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.
— Robyn Davidson
The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
— Red Auerbach
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
— Dale Carnegie
So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.
— Patti LaBelle
There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.
— Diego Maradona
Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.
— Tom Glazer
I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
— Benmont Tench
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
— William Osler
I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I want to go out and grab a smoothie with a friend who's a male, I'm not gonna let the paparazzi stop me from doing that and living my life and just being a normal person.
— Kendall Jenner
If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.
— Denzel Washington
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
— Maria Callas
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
— David Hume
I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.
— Andrew Sullivan
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
— Gilda Radner
I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for 'Fargo.' One of my best friends from college is a librarian, and she started tracking after each interview how many Twitter followers I got. She and her librarian friends were like, 'We're going to make a graph.' And I was like, 'Alright, nerds.'
— Allison Tolman
We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that needs to be answered is which country will create and own the best robotic technology and have the infrastructure necessary to enable it.
— Mark Cuban
If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.
— Jessi Colter
To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.
— Peter Singer
My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.
— Tom Brady
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
— Harriet Martineau
It pays to get drunk with the best people.
— Joe E. Lewis
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
— W. C. Fields
My best vacation memory is getting barreled at the beach in Hawaii.
— Troy Polamalu
For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
— Fedor Emelianenko
Even between the best of friends, mistakes and misunderstandings can happen.
— Avigdor Lieberman
I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.
— Kate Upton
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
— David Crystal
I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
— Zinedine Zidane
A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.
— Raquel Cassidy
Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.
— Kurt Bills
Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.
— Neil Gaiman
We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.
— Gretchen Rubin
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
— Noam Chomsky
I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.
— Oscar Hijuelos
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
— Joan Rivers
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
That was the best ice cream soda I ever tasted.
— Lou Costello
Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
— Felicia Day
When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'
— Joyce Meyer
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
— Charles M. Schwab
In life, try your best to do the right thing. Have fun while you're alive. Take advantage of every asset you have. Don't take anything for granted.
— Justin Chon
When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.
— Joan Jett
Learn to invest in the best quality you can afford and wear pieces in different ways.
— Michael Kors
The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
— Harold Ramis
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
— Oprah Winfrey
The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.
— Eli Broad
I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.
— Enzo Ferrari
I've learned that I am allowed to say what I like and what I don't like. And I've learned that I have to be professional and not be everyone's best friend.
— Bobbi Brown
I'm not afraid of working hard at anything, whatever it is. I just always want to be the best that I can.
— Gisele Bundchen
I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.
— Stevie Ray Vaughan
In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
— Lou Holtz
Working with some of the best makeup artists has taught me a lot of amazing tricks to making me feel more confident, and I can't wait to share them with you guys.
— Kylie Jenner
I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.
— Ivanka Trump
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
— Raymond Duncan
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
I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.
— Brandon Routh
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
— Colin Powell
I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest.
— Jason Ritter
You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.
— Rory McIlroy
I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn't be associated with her because it wasn't the type of person I wanted to be.
— Amber Riley
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
— Ovid
The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
— Julian Casablancas
The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
— Oleg Cassini
Hockey lends itself to special events, including the Olympic competition: a glorious tournament of the best players in the world, putting on their national jerseys and playing on big rinks with no-goon Olympic rules and referee enforcement.
— George Vecsey
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
— Donald Trump
We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.
— Henry Mintzberg
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.
— Shawn Mendes
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
— William Feather
I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.
— Bryan Clay
My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.
— Rashida Jones
When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.
— Tom Araya
The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.
— Glenn Close
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
— H. G. Wells
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
— Robert Frost
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
— Herman Melville
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
— Mark Twain
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
— Jackie Kennedy
Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'
— Terry Pratchett
Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
— George B. McClellan
To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.
— Robert Duvall
Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.
— George Allen, Sr.
We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.
— Barack Obama
Blueberries, strawberries and blackberries are true super foods. Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients - they are among the best foods you can eat.
— Joel Fuhrman
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.
— Norman Rockwell
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
— Dean Acheson
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
— Henry Van Dyke
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
— Thomas Sowell
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
— Friedrich Schiller
I did my best, and God did the rest.
— Hattie McDaniel
The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.
— Michael Bloomberg
The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'
— Katharine Whitehorn
Maria is the best reason to come home.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.
— John Walsh
Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
— Steve Earle
The best prophet of the future is the past.
— Lord Byron
I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
— Lenny Kravitz
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
— David Sarnoff
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
— Lillian Hellman
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.
— Steve Wynn
If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.
— Lil Wayne
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
— Thomas Sowell
Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
— Randy Jackson
I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.
— Ringo Starr
Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.
— Marissa Mayer
I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.
— Haruki Murakami
I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.
— Eve Arnold
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!
— Maria Semple
I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.
— Kelly Slater
I always want to be the best at what I do. That doesn't mean compared to other people, but just in what you do.
— Derek Hough
In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting work out in many forms and stages is an extension of how I see things. I feel the art process is best served when it invites comments and constructive criticism from people.
— Jim Goldberg
Look your best - who said love is blind?
— Mae West
Our best thoughts come from others.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
— David Seabury
The days you work are the best days.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
— Robert Bresson
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
— Luc de Clapiers
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
— Charles Lamb
Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.
— Graydon Carter
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
— Winston Churchill
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
— Ambrose Bierce
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
— Thomas Carlyle
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
— Sophocles
Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
— Francis Ford Coppola
The best things in life are silly.
— Scott Adams
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can.
— Marlee Matlin
I am the best in baseball.
— Reggie Jackson
The man who has done his best has done everything.
— Charles M. Schwab
You'll live. Only the best get killed.
— Charles de Gaulle
Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same.
— Andy Roddick
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
— Thornton Wilder
The best person to get something done is a busy person.
— Mark Burnett
Life is best when you are in love.
— Michael Moriarty
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
— Eric Butterworth
Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
— Frank Crane
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
— Abraham Lincoln
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
— Bob Marley
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
— Dennis Prager
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
— Mother Teresa
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
— Margaret Walker
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
— Frank A. Clark
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
— John Wooden
When you think positive, good things happen.
— Matt Kemp
To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
— Gene Tunney
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
— Lao Tzu
I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.
— Eric Idle
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
— Jim Yong Kim
Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
— Publilius Syrus
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
— William Shakespeare
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
— Nelson Mandela
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
— Yanni
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
— Buddha
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
— Margaret Heffernan
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
— John C. Maxwell
Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
— Steve Jobs
A good husband makes a good wife.
— John Florio
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.
— Valentino Rossi
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
— William Shakespeare
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
— George Washington
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
— Tony Dungy
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
— Martin Luther
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
— Orson Welles
Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.
— Eric Burdon
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.
— Confucius
A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
They're only truly great who are truly good.
— George Chapman
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
— Aaron Rodgers
Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.
— Marty Robbins
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
— William R. Alger
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
— William Shakespeare
At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.
— Simone Biles