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Quotes About Better

Standards must be achievable (though achieving them will always require extra effort), and the leaders must provide the means to get there. The focus should always be on getting better and better. We must always reach for the better way.
~ Colin Powell
What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.
~ Colum McCann
I see more confusion. I have to think. Can I? I feel I'd better; I realize I must; I decide I will: won't I taste smell feel better when I can think realize decide? Won't I? Shouldn't I? Mustn't I? Well, I feel I should therefore I think I am. I mean I think I can. I
~ Unknown
When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything.
~ Craig Ferguson
Call it fate, call it synchronicity: you never know what your actions are going to lead to, or the possibilities they can cause. There is a ripple effect to every action you take, intended or not. I walked out of his office feeling better than I had in months.
~ Unknown
He's got claws!" Ben shook his head, hard. "All the better to rip into prey." Jude took a step forward. "What's up with his eyes? Why are they—" "All the better to see the asshole who doesn't need to be attacking my lady.
~ Unknown
I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist... as somebody who's trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That's the version of capitalism that we want.
~ Guy Spier
Even though I believe a superlative translation can achieve timelessness, that doesn't mean I think other translators shouldn't attempt other versions. The more the better, in the end.
~ Lydia Davis
There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.
~ Antonio Perez
I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.
~ Tony Danza
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.
~ Enrique Pena Nieto
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
~ Michael Caine
The Greens simply don't understand that a strong economy is the key to a better Victoria for all Victorian families.
~ Denis Napthine
I'm in my studio at 6 A.M. every day because I work better in the morning. Then in the afternoon, I like to go for a walk. I enjoy going for a perambulation or a constitutional. It's all very Victorian.
~ Vic Reeves
An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.
~ Edward Grey
With all due respect," Christopher muttered, "this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of you should point out that Beatrix deserves a better man." "That's what I said about my wife," Leo remarked. "Which is why I married her before she could find one.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Think of it this way-going to bed naked is better for the environment." "Oh, shut up." "Come on, Ella. Sleep green.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Would you say that you're a good man, Harry?" He had to think about that. "No," he finally said. "In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.
~ Lisa Kleypas
In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.
~ Lisa Kleypas
What Owen would have said if he'd had time to think about it was that Luna thought too hard about being good. Thinking about being good didn't make you good. Sacrificing individual happiness didn't make the world a better place.
~ Lisa Lutz
This is one of my favorite books Lisa has ever written. You couldn't ask for a better story.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.
~ Lisa Scottoline
How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital? The patients get better and leave.
~ Lisa Scottoline