Best Things Quotes - Page 19

• Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.

  Cassandra Clare

  Want, Nudity, Embarrassment

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life

  Nicholas Sparks

  Queens, Timeless, Stills

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• I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think it. My height triggers the puppy-kitten reflex- Must touch-and I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

  Laini Taylor

  Flower, Eye, Thinking

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• Sometimes the best things are the ones that aren’t planned, the decisions made while living in the moment.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Decision, Live In The Moment, Sometimes

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• I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Education, College, Thinking

  Interview with Victor Kelly, drake.stg.www.ign.com. January 08, 2004.

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• A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.

  Gustav Radbruch

  Freedom, Air, Water

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• The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.

  Fred Pierce Corson

  Humor, Things In Life, Effort

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• A man's best things are nearest him,
  Lie close about his feet.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Life, Lying, Men

  Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) (1838). “The poems of Richard Monckton Milnes”, p.100

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• Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

  George Gershwin

  Music, Jazz, Gershwin

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• In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Relationship, Thinking Of You, Money

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religion, Thank God, Debt

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• I feel completely safe in my house but all my friends are scared for me. And of course I can tell my parents panic a little. The best thing about living alone is being able to have my friends come over whenever.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Single, Parent, House

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• As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head.

  Art Buchwald

  Travel, Sleep, Good Friend

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• The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Tables

  "Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha' Businessweek". July 5, 1999.

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• The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Self Esteem, Appreciate

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• Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

  Christian Bale

  Light, People, Acting

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

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• The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.

  Bobbi Brown

  Fun, Age, Want

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• I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Encouraging, 4th Of July, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• So to overcome the problems of personality the best thing is to witness, practice witnessing everything: before talking, practice witnessing, before giving any comments, just start witnessing. It's a very, very satisfying attitude.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Attitude

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• Now the best thing is to put attention to your Spirit. If you start putting your attention to Spirit, the sweetness of the Spirit itself will make the whole thing very sweet and beautiful.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Wisdom

  "Lethargy Most Anti-God". Nirmala Srivastava's speech at Chelsham Road Ashram in London, UK, www.amruta.org. September 27, 1980.

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• The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Culture, Rich

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Eye, Hands

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• The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

  Bob Costas

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Believe, Struggle, Expected

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• The best things in life can never be kept;
  They must be given away.
  A Smile, a Kiss, and Love
  
  If you are asking if I'd hurt you, the answer is never.
  If you are asking if i love u,the answer is forever.
  If you are asking if i want u,the answer is i do.
  If you are asking what i value most, the answer is YOU
  
  Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.

  Robert Browning

  Girlfriend, Hurt, Kissing

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