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Quotes About Better

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.
~ John Travolta
Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.
~ Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.
~ Ronald Reagan
Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
~ Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
What better way could they spend the last days of the world, than falling in love?
~ Philippa Gregory
king himself is as sunny as the mornings. He declares that he is well again, much better
~ Philippa Gregory
I have to retain the illusion of things happening, I have to make Henry feel more and more intensely loved, I have to give him the belief that things are getting better and better because he is a king and all his life everyone has told him that he shall have the very best. He has been promised cream and gold and honey, I cannot give him 'wait.' How am I to keep going? How am I to do it?
~ Philippa Gregory
I am a dreamer, he concedes. I don't deny it, but I have seen enough to know the world. Perhaps my dream is of a better one.
~ Philippa Gregory
If you harm a horse do you make him better or worse? Worse.
~ Plato
Socrates is an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others.
~ Plato
I found that the men most in repute were all but the most foolish; and that others less esteemed were really wiser and better.
~ Plato
Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger. Sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger. Sneeze on Wednesday, sneeze for a letter. Sneeze on Thursday, something better. Sneeze on Friday, sneeze for woe. Sneeze on Saturday, a journey to go. Sneeze on Sunday, your safety seek. For the devil will have you the rest of the week.
~ Unknown
You're much shorter than my mom. Brat, she said, surprised into a giggle. That's no way to talk to a vampire. Bloodsucking brat. Better he said.
~ Rachel Caine
Ay-firmative,' Eve said, and tried for a smile. 'Sorry. An Aliens reference always makes me feel better at times like this. Exept I'm not sure I'm the one who lives through the movie.
~ Rachel Caine
This is a day he will remember: a good day. It's one of those memories that will pave the way to better things for him.
~ Rachel Caine
Because when your potential competition was some ancient, occasionally suave dude who dressed in velvet and still looked twenty-something, nothing could make you feel a lot better.
~ Rachel Caine
If this was the best wine that Jim and Nora could afford or, worse, if this was their idea of a good wine - well, sadly, then they were better off dead.
~ Dean Koontz
Fear is essential to force societal change. Citizens subjected to unrelenting terror are more likely to surrender their selfish freedoms in the interest of a better world for all.
~ Dean Koontz
In those days, cigarette companies could still advertise on television, but lawyers couldn't; some changes are for the better, and others are not.
~ Dean Koontz
Only catastrophe can bring about radical change for the better.
~ Dean Koontz
impatience was a characteristic of those who didn't understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.
~ Dean Koontz
FH: All these... weirdos, and me... getting a little better every day right in the middle of 'em. I had never known... I had never even imagined for a heartbeat that... there might be a place in the world for people like us...Jesus' Son
~ Denis Johnson
From its earliest days, the raison d'être of Judaism has been to change the world for the better (in the words of an ancient Jewish prayer recited daily, "to repair the world under the rule of God"). This attempt to change the world, to challenge the gods, religious or secular, of the societies around them, and to make moral demands upon others (even when not done expressly in the name of Judaism) has constantly
~ Dennis Prager
Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.
~ Diana Gabaldon