I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone. - Rachel Machacek Live always in the best company when you read. - Sydney Smith In literature one has the best company in the world at complete command; one also has the worst. One has a social conscience which dissuades one from harbouring unprofitable company in life, and I find that my two canons are a great aid and support for an analogous literary conscience which speaks up against consorting with unprofitable company in literature. - Albert J Nock

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. - Andy Rooney As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden. - John Warner

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet. - Julie Bishop America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. - Ilka Chase

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap. - Snoop Dogg But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance. - William Julius Wilson

Most everybody had made at least one bad, drunken decision in their lives. Called an ex at two in the morning. Or perhaps has a little too much to drink on a second date and wept inconsolably while revealing how simply damaged one was, while nonetheless retaining an uncommonly large capacity for love. That kind of thing was, while regrettable, at least comprehensible. But waking up with someone generationally inappropriate, like your grandfather's best buddy? - Augusten Burroughs My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog. - Cathy Guisewite

Hey Kid-- so proud of you. so is emily. we wish we could be there, but here's a fat check to make up for it but dont go spending it all out on booze. call you soon. Love, the best big brother ever and Emily and Marie, too. I smiled. It was a mark of how much I loved my big brother that I found his lack of punctuation and proper grammar endearing. - Kody Keplinger Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time. - Bobby Mcferrin

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. - Edward Albee You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you? What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man? - Edward Albee It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it. - Friedrich August Von Hayek Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please. - Francine Rivers

...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul. - Louisa May Alcott But surely it is something to have been The best beloved for a little while, To have walked hand in hand with Love, and seen His purple wings flit once across thy smile. - Oscar Wilde Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild - Rudyard Kipling You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved. - Rudyard Kipling When I said that this lady was known to me, I meant that I esteem her more than anyone else on this earth. If I can do my duty and walk away from my best beloved, you can all do yours and listen to what she has to say. - Courtney Milan Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my housedo not pass by like a dream. - Rabindranath Tagore

We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place. - Otto Schily Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself. - Herschel Walker When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world. - Katarina Witt

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same. - Edward Hoagland Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. - Tacitus

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. - Tryon Edwards As a point of fact, the best apologies don't come at the point of a sword, they come freely and of one's own volition, hours and sometimes even days after the torture session has ended. - Jarod Kintz

At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest. - Ralph Ellison The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow olderintelligence and good manners. - F Scott Fitzgerald I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game. - Jason Patric David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology. - Terry Southern I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetr...

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. - Winston Churchill If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing. - Charles Krauthammer

I've had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you. - Joshua Jackson I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one. - Sally Kirkland I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years. - Marlee Matlin I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor. - Julia Roberts Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful. - Fred Willard ...

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. - Stella Adler It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa. - Dirk Benedict I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure. - Kenneth Branagh The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness. - Kenneth Branagh The best actors do not let the wheels show. - Milan Kundera I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with. - Sherilyn Fenn I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a f...

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. - Stella Adler It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa. - Dirk Benedict I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure. - Kenneth Branagh The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness. - Kenneth Branagh Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that. - James Caan I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that....

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. - Ruben Blades Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences. - Kirk Gibson I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing. - Rafer Johnson To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God. - John Ortberg Jr So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock. - Kevin Mitnick When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world. - Katarina Witt

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-that and such hope as I bring. - J R R Tolkien Dear Alec, As your best friend and parabatai, I am offended not to have been asked to be your best man at the wedding. Et tu, Brutus. -Jace Alec , he really is upset. He hasn't washed his hair in three days. -Clary - Cassandra Clare I killed your friends." Abigail "And I'm not happy about that. But your head wasn't screwed on right. It's easy to let the enemies in and listen to them sometimes, especially when they're pretending to be your best friends who only want the best for you. At least that's what they claim. They're insidious bastards, telling you what you want to hear and using your emotions to manipulate you think doing their bidding." Sundown - Sherrilyn Kenyon After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you ...

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. - John Adams We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be. - Richard Adams Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty. - Matthew Kelly I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time. - Lee Child You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward. - Andre Agassi You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and s...

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads. - Paulo Coelho You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me. - Jodi Picoult I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not. - Henry Alford Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. - Cassandra Clare If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. - Aristotle Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. - Francis Bacon Acheron scoffed. "Nick won't be learning in my Porsche. It's a standard. I think it'd be best to teach him in an automatic. Let ...