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Quotes About Better Place

Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.
~ Thomas Menino
I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religions into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known.
~ Mary Doria Russell
His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one. If adults could put aside their obsessions with such firmness, the world would undoubtedly be a better place. Robertson Davies does not say that in his Deptford Trilogy ... but he strongly hints at it.
~ Stephen King
Ideologies are simple ideas, disguised as science or philosophy, that purport to explain the complexity of the world and offer remedies that will perfect it. Ideologues are people who pretend they know how to "make the world a better place" before they've taken care of their own chaos within.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Ideologies are simple ideas, disguised as science or philosophy, that purport to explain the complexity of the world and offer remedies that will perfect it. Ideologues are people who pretend they know how to "make the world a better place" before they've taken care of their own chaos within. (The warrior identity that their ideology gives them covers over that chaos.)
~ Jordan B. Peterson
The quality of life of European cities and towns of almost any size make life in America look not just like a joke, but a sick joke, a horror movie. But I'd rather stay involved and do what I can to make this a better place than move to the south of France and enjoy the good life.
~ James Howard Kunstler
With the right treatment, love, and care the world is a better place.
~ Ana Monnar
Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.
~ Keith Ellison
If we're not compelled to gain a deeper understanding of good and evil, how can we make the world a better place? How can we find ourselves at the end of our lives and know that our lives were significant? Those things would be impossibilities.
~ Scott Derrickson
Swimming has always been a means of escape: physical, spiritual, mental. And if that's true, then what better place is there for a swim team than a war zone?
~ Bonnie Tsui
Missionaries have righteous goals and are trying to make the world a better place. Mercenaries are out for money and power and will run over anyone who gets in the way.
~ Brad Stone
Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.
~ Sebastian Thrun
So many problems occur when people fail to be obedient when they are supposed to be obedient, and fail to be creative when they are supposed to be creative. The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours. It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.
~ Michael Lewis
I love Denver. There's not a better place to hit, better place to play. I'm a West Coast guy, so I like playing in the NL West.
~ Garrett Atkins
That's what 'Star Trek' was: We don't know how to make an ideal society, but we're going to portray that, and then we're going to work backward. I think that's why science fiction - despite the dystopian parts - comes out of this super ideal that, eventually, we will get to some better place where we actually live up to our ideals.
~ Margot Lee Shetterly
It would, of course, be wrong to say that the arts have no social value. They have tremendous power and can often, indirectly, make our world a better place to live in.
~ Munira Mirza
I wouldn't say I wanna conquer the world anymore. But I want to be a part of making the world a better place. I want to inspire people and I wanna be part of the solution.
~ Madonna Ciccone
As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
~ Steve Jobs
Tomorrow, your job is to change the world into a better place. Today, my job is to see that everyone gets there.
~ Terry Pratchett
There is a better place, the hard but joyful work beyond struggle, beyond the shadow of a doubt. It is our real home, the long-remembered future when everything worked and things made sense.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
She glides through the night. He punches into it, a boxing glove with razor blades for knuckles. When she passes, the world is a better place. He leaves bloody footprints in a graveyard of bones.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It is modeling revision—taking a rough draft and moving it to a better place—that is critical if our students are to sharpen their writing skills.
~ Kelly Gallagher
'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe.
~ Colson Whitehead
Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.
~ Naveen Jain