Best Quotes

I have no idea what my best material is. Different people like different things. I'll say this: The political stuff gets the press, but the relationship jokes sell all the seats.

~ Chris Rock

I think the best way to keep a relationship hot is to simply try to make time for each other. That's it.

~ Ashley Madekwe

If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true.

~ Elliott Abrams

I'm kind of a rebound junkie. So. when a relationship goes sour, I look at the sweetness in life elsewhere. So, I date a bit. The best catharsis is to write jokes and tell 4,000 people about it.

~ Vir Das

We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.

~ Jim Hunt

In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.

~ Pepper Schwartz

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

~ Sam Ewing

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

~ Maxwell Maltz

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

~ Mitt Romney

But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

~ Jesse James Garrett

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

~ Jim Harrison

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

~ Sylvia Plath

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

~ Jay-Z

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

~ Virginia Woolf

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

~ Maya Angelou

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

~ Natasha Trethewey

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

~ Robert Morgan

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

~ Roger Waters

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

~ Francis Bacon

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

~ Aristotle

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

~ Murray Kempton

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

~ Joseph Joubert

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.

~ Karen Salmansohn

The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.

~ Martin Seligman

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Of the seven deadly sins, anger has long been the one with the best box of costumes. When the guy in the next car rages at you, he's dangerous. When you rage at him, you're just. We can usually recognize the results of anger, especially in others, as destructive and evil.

~ Frederica Mathewes-Green

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

~ B. C. Forbes

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

~ Joe Lieberman

When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I will bring a freshness into the Euros, and now that I am captain, I am going to do my best to take responsibility.

~ Eden Hazard

I'm healthy now. I probably wouldn't say I'm at my best fitness level and I haven't played that much lately, but I'm healthy and that's all that matters.

~ Mary Pierce

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

~ Michelle Shocked

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

~ Joseph Parry

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

~ Charles Spurgeon

America's trying to do the best for its veterans.

~ R. Lee Ermey

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

~ Kin Hubbard

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

~ Rowan Atkinson