Quotes of: Best-intentions Keyword

I've heard this attributed to Calvin Coolidge. "Behold the turtle. He never gets anywhere unless he sticks his neck out.

The Best of What's Left

I'd never criticize gay people for being gay. That would be the same thing as criticizing someone for having brown eyes, as far as I'm concerned.

The Best Years of My Life

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.

The Best of Me

Satisfaction in life doesn't jump on you, you work for it, you earn it. You will not sit in a place, fold your hands and expect to be satisfied with life.

The Best Option

It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all.

The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories

A brick could be used as man’s best friend, if you covered it in fur and taught it to bark and shit in your neighbor’s yard.  

The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test

I think 60 is when many people hit their prime. We elect many of our presidents in their 60s. At that age, people are full of ideas and their best self. I wanted to dig into my potential and bring out my best self.

Diana Nyad

I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew.

Peter Eisenman

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.

Amy Poehler

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

Gloria Allred

Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.

James Gray

I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

LeRoy Neiman

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central f...

Tom Chatfield

Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

The 40 Best Business Tips No One's Ever Told You

The best way to wake up is with coffee and an erection. The cool part is one can stir the other.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.

Kiss of Death

What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach

Killing Floor

Satan has certainly been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years.

The Satanic Bible

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Humility is not weak, powerless, faint, a pushover, a punching bag or an abuse magnet, because above all — humility cares.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life