Best Quotes

Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.

~ Douglas Brinkley

Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

~ Sylvia Plath

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

~ Tori Amos

I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.

~ Ashton Eaton

The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.

~ Sebastian Coe

Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.

~ Kalpana Chawla

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

~ Tiger Woods

My dad's my best mate, and he always will be.

~ Cher Lloyd

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

~ Paul Walker

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

~ George Best

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

~ Dwyane Wade

Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

~ Ed Sheeran

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

~ Michael J. Fox

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

~ Allen Klein

Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.

~ Jerry Della Femina

I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the best work out there and completely underrated, just because of how genius they are. I love that kind of humor. It's so innocent but brilliant.

~ Andie Macdowell

'Guardians of the Galaxy' is tongue-in-cheek and has a sense of humor about itself. But it's nothing like 'Deadpool.' 'Deadpool' is this super-bizarre thing. The best thing about it is that it's R-rated.

~ T. J. Miller

As far as how I approach the humor, I think the best comedy is going to happen when I'm myself and act organically to a news item or situation.

~ Nikki Glaser

I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

~ Jen Lancaster

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

~ Richard Russo

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

~ Mike Mills

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

~ Frank A. Clark

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

~ Simon Pegg

You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

~ Vanessa Bayer

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

~ Jon Scieszka

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

~ Roy Blount

John Lennon, who was a good friend of mine, he had one of the best senses of humor of any human being. And Keith Richards, fantastic sense of humor. They were smart, sharp. They had their own thoughts on matters.

~ Bobby Keys

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

~ Claire Scovell Lazebnik

If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.

~ Malcolm D. Lee

The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.

~ John Tyler

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

~ James Cagney

Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.

~ Mel Carnahan

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

~ Sun Tzu

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

~ Martin Van Creveld

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

~ Smedley Butler

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

~ Benazir Bhutto