Best Things Quotes - Page 12

• The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  People, Going Out, I've Learned

  Guardian interview, July 4, 2009.

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• The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Adversity

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• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

  Ryne Sandberg

  I Love You, Cute Love, Romantic

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• Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

  Carl Sandburg

  Birthday, Optimism, Pleasant Surprises

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• I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

  Dan Savage

  Passion, Thinking, Live Your Life

  "Q&A With Dan Savage: On Obama, Fox News’ Shepard Smith and Success of ‘It Gets Better’ Project". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2011.

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• Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

  William Shatner

  Ideas, Done, Pieces

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• I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

  Neil Simon

  Inspirational, Attitude, Problem

  Neil Simon (1986). “The Collected Plays of Neil Simon: Come blow your horn. Barefoot in the park. The odd couple. The star-spangled girl. Promises, promises. Plaza suite. Last of the red hot lovers”

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• Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

  Peter Singer

  New Year, Children, Years

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• I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.

  Lara Stone

  Baby, Agony, Massage

  "Lara Stone Spills Her Top Head-to-Toe Beauty Secrets". Interview with Alex Catarinella, www.elle.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

  Sharon Stone

  Compassion, Medicine, Giving

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• You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

  Keith Sweat

  Relationship, Soulmate, Wedding Anniversary

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• When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Moving, Feel Better

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• To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Life, Relationship

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1850). “The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy”, p.9

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• The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Wrestling, Fighting

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

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• Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux

  "Linux's Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.drdobbs.com. January 1, 2002.

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• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  Ted Turner

  Buying Things, Cnn, Humanity

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• One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

  Stewart Udall

  Energy, Administration, Carter

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

  Dwyane Wade

  Voice, Fatherhood, Share

  Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.

  Christopher Walken

  Home, Thinking, Two

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• The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

  Orson Welles

  Successful, Worst

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• You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

  Shaun White

  Math, Games, Work Out

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• I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

  Shaun White

  Thinking, Guitar, Sweat

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• The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

  Steve Wozniak

  Imagination, News, Capture

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  You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

  Chuck Yeager

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Long

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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