No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.
The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with.
Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.
He who knows himself best esteems himself least.
In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.
My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.
The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.
The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.
Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
Don't forget to eat a lot of greens and fish oil pills. Those are two of the best things to keep your skin glowing.
The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.
I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.
Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
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In most cases, I think most executive producers and studio executives really do their best to accommodate you. At least, that's been my experience in most cases.
I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player.'
Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.
For me, it has an extra value to be able to beat the Williams sisters in the finals, because they are just so good. For me, it's proof of being literally the best player in the tournament.
Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
As soon as I signed for the French rugby union, it was just a huge relief, you know, because I was out of Sydney and out of sight doing what was best for myself.
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
I'm getting a bunch more face tattoos, because it doesn't look like I'm ever going to have to apply to a Walmart or Best Buy.
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
