Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. – Henry Van Dyke
I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I’ve always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability. – Harry Caray
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. – Hannah Arendt
Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information. – Heather Brooke
At its best, Purple Ronnie puts little thoughts out there, on very high-volume selling items, that people use to make very personal connections with one another. And I’m actually very proud of that. – Giles Andreae
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own. – Herodotus
Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. – Howie Carr
I do think it’s well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all. – Helen Mirren
For me, the best way to be as an artist is to be completely yourself, letting that vulnerability come through. – Gretchen Parlato
It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. ‘The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War’ is perhaps the best war memoir ever written. – H. R. McMaster
The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling. – Hilda Solis
There’s so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who’s married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them. – Helen Rowland
It’s like these songs are your babies and you don’t want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it’s gonna take. And that is a really scary and vulnerable place to be, so having those songs be embraced is the best feeling in the world. That’s been our dream our whole lives. – Hillary Scott
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions. – H. P. Lovecraft
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. – Henry Ward Beecher
I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don’t need to beat yourself up about it. – Heidi Klum
I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town. – Henry Rollins
There’ll never be another ‘MASH.’ There’s nothing in the way of doing your best work on this set – absolutely nothing. – Harry Morgan
I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon. – Haruki Murakami
That save from Pele’s header was the best I ever made. I didn’t have any idea how famous it would become – to start with, I didn’t even realise I’d made it at all. – Gordon Banks
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with. – Henry Van Dyke
We didn’t really feel poor. You don’t know that as a kid, but we really didn’t have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn’t have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it. – Glen Taylor
I’ve never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine. – Gerry Rafferty
It was definitely not the salary that made me join Manchester United; I went for football reasons – for the history of the club, the league, the fans, and the coach because he is one of the best in the world. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible – and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist’s task becomes ever more difficult. – Graydon Carter
My husband and Charlie Sheen played Little League together. They’ve always been best friends. – Heather Langenkamp
One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work! – Gail Z. Martin
