Best Quotes

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

First thoughts are not always the best.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

I've gotten my butt kicked by the best. Jet Li beat me up the best, but Steven Segal can still kick a good butt. It's a different kind of kicking, though.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.

I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think.

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.