The Best Quotes

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

That's the only way that I can figure out how to live, is to say, "Well, I don't know what this adds up to, but I can do the best I can."

The best way to fight evil is to do some good. Let me qualify that—the best way to fight evil at home is to do some good. The best way to fight them abroad is to unleash the military.

We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil... The best way to break this addiction is through technology.

The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope - an ideology of hate - excuse me - with an ideology of hope.

Markets are the best way to allocate resources.

When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

It's not always the best team that wins the game it's the team that plays better.

The best thing we can do for a young person is to expect a great deal from them.

Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

I want to be the best in whatever I do.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

I just consider myself a committed actor. If a movie is a success, that's great; I'm happy for that. But I've learned just to concentrate on my job and do the best that I can.

We’re the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it’s only the best thing for us if it’s the worst thing for someone else.

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

Do the best you can. And remember that the greatest asset you have in this world is those children who you've brought into the world, and for whose nurture and care you're responsible.

Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.

A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?

Being a showrunner is tough, but it is incredibly rewarding and it is, without a doubt, the best job I've ever had.

The future is going to be stranger and more various and more dynamic than anything people can imagine now. We will be extraordiarily tested. I wish us the best of luck!

You just make the best movie you can and hope for the best, because you don't have any control over what happens with the movie, whether the movie is misinterpreted.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.

Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.

You can't change someone. The best thing you can do for someone is to just accept them.

With practice you can get to be the best within your biological constraints.

Drive inexpensive cars, but own the best house you can afford.

Things will go wrong or end up differently than you had imagined, and that's OK. Life isn't about being perfect. It's about being the best you can possibly be and finding the good in everything.

Our limited mind is our enemy and our unlimited mind is our best friend. When you become a slave of the mind, it will limit you. When you use it, it will bring you the whole universe.

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I've been very fortunate - I understand that that doesn't happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.

Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

Music is, I think, the best way to... not forget, but to just escape for a moment.

The dog that I was given on The Hills for Christmas is with my best friend's family.

I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world.

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.