Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Drayton

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires,Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

Jennifer Botterill

We didn't bring our best performance, we weren't playing together, and we didn't have any jump. We looked flat.

Mack Brown

We don't have to be the best team of all time, just tomorrow night.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.

We don't have the horses to match up with them. Our team didn't give up. I think they did the best they could.

Sarah Walsh

We don't have the best history with Maryland. At the same time, we understand that we have a lot to learn and that we need to take everything out of this game and turn it into a positive.

We don't have good evidence, good research and good literature that supports some of these time frames, ... So they're a best guess at this point.

We don't have a returning All?American or a guy that placed before. But we have an opportunity, individually, to make the best of it for ourselves. If we give 100 percent for seven minutes every match, we are going to be fine.

We don't have a problem with the evangelical community. In fact, we regard them as the best friends of Israel. And they are most welcome in Israel and to do business with us. But we cannot sign a contract with Mr. Robertson. We plan to continue talking with the others, but not with him.

We don't have any superstars but we have a lot of great players. We've played the best of the best in Colorado this year by playing in the 5A Continental League. We don't know anything about Moffat and what they've faced.

Jack Rio

We don't have any say-so over the schedule. This was certainly the best team we've seen in a while.

Hannah Ware

'Mixtape' sounds retro! I used to make lots of mixed tapes. It was one of those '90s things - every girl gave them to her best friend. I remember exchanging a few with a boy on a bus when I was 14. I thought he hated me, but in hindsight, maybe he was in love with me, because he gave me the best music.

Holly Black

Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers.

Henry Markram

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.

Henry Paulson

I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'

Henry Selick

There's this long tradition of... even 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which many people consider the best kids' picture book of all time. It was considered revolutionary, and some libraries wouldn't carry it. But it's a classic because it taps into empowerment for kids, kids facing dangers and winning.

I'm not here to judge, I'm here to empower women to figure out what's best for them.

Heather Mills

Everyone knows that when you go through a divorce, it's a really difficult time for both parties and you've all - you believe, you both believe, individually, that you've put your best into it.

Henning Mankell

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

Heber J. Grant

With the help of the Lord, I will do the best I can, and... with His help, I have no fear at all but what I can get along.

Hannibal Buress

I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.

Suzanne Somers

When you receive a cancer diagnosis, you're more vulnerable than at any other time in your life. I've personally had the experience twice. My only hope for survival was alternatives. But that was my decision, what I thought was best for me.

When you're building a new space, the client has to own it. So we are at our best when we're teaching our clients how to be their own design advocates.

Kelly Smith

Whether its advantageous to pre-pay depends on the age, lifestyle, individual family preferences and future plans of the family. If you're 35 to 40 years old, in mid-career and don't know where you are going to be in 5 years, it's probably not the best idea.

We are a club that is on the up and we have no intention of selling our best players.

We're not used to playing in tournaments or playing 9 a.m. games this early in the season. Tony changes speeds and throws strikes. With him pitching the way he did, going the distance, that put us in the best position possible down the road, including this afternoon.

We're not used to girls hitting jump shots like they do. We can do our best to match them, but tonight, we couldn't keep up with them.

John Paxson

We're not under any obligation to anything we don't want to. I respect the fact that he wants to play. We're also playing his contract, and we have the right to make sure it's the best thing for us.

We're not too sure yet, that he'll have his first run today. I think the best way to put it is that we're hopeful he'll get up so we'll give him till the last minute and see how he goes.

We're not the subway system. We can't re-create it. But, we did the best we could ... Get people on, get them in. Just keep it moving.

Brian Urlacher

We're not the Giants. If they overlooked us, didn't play their best game, whatever. We didn't play our best game either. They scored three points, so we didn't play our best game. They scored on us; they shouldn't have.

We're not that much better than everybody if we don't bring our best game, especially on the road. And we didn't defensively.