Quotes About Best

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.

Part of the great challenge of living is defining yourself in your moment, of seizing the opportunities that you are given, and of making the very best choices you can.

We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

Out of context," as Wes Jackson has said, "the best minds do the worst damage.

Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.

I never think anyone in love is foolish. We do the best we can.

It was his motto that one lived best by the hidden life—bene vixit qui bene latuit.

The whole thing [life] is a 'Racket,' so get a few laughs, do the best you can, take nothing serious, for nothing is certainly depending on this generation. Each one lives in spite of the previous one and not because of it. And don't start "seeking knowledge," for the more you seek the nearer the "Booby Hatch" you get.

So I found myself asking the question: what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn't a word, in fact, precisely because a mistake always arises from best intentions that go awry. You can't set out to make a mistake. Mistakes happen – there's nothing we can do about them.

We don't sense mistakes coming, there's this crucial unforeseen factor to them. So I found myself asking the question: what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn't a word, in fact, precisely because a mistake always arises from best intentions that go awry. You can't set out to make a mistake. Mistakes happen – there's nothing we can do about them.

The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented. . . . Faulkner in the University, 117

Keep it amateur. You're not writing for money but for pleasure. It should be fun. And it should be exciting. Maybe not as you write, but after it's done you should feel an excitement, a passion. That doesn't mean feeling proud, sitting there gloating over what you've done. It means you know you've done your best. Next time it's going to be better.

Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile--true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.

Checklists educate people about what's best, showing them the ironclad right way to do something.

The theory is that the people who do the work are the highest authorities on how best to do it.

I'm blessed, for I have sinned with the best damned fuck in the universe.

I've come to think that's what heaven is—a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on. Maybe

Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

The best crime fiction is not so much a search and rescue mission, but a recovery mission.

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather, And autumn's best of cheer.

It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can?

Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: they sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.