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Quotes About Better

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.
~ Patrick Marber
Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
~ Patrick Ness
He is worse than the others, I show. He is worst of all of them. Because– Because he knew he was doing wrong. He felt the pain of his actions– But he did not amend them, shows the Sky. The rest are worth as much as their pack animals, I show, but worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
~ Patrick Ness
But I begin to wonder if doubt is better than the wrong knowledge.
~ Patrick Ness
A bristling fox is better than a deranged, half-shod idiot.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Just a little meddling with dark forces better left alone," I said lightly, holding up the burning shingle.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I deal with stress much better than Murphy does," Loki said. "That's because you cheat and deal from the bottom of the deck," I said.
~ Unknown
those nights out in the concert halls were nothing less than a revelation about the workings of his own heart, for music was the heart, he realized, the fullest expression of the human heart, and now that he had heard what he had heard, he was beginning to hear better, and the better he heard, the more deeply he felt—sometimes so deeply that his body shook.
~ Paul Auster
The face that feigns acknowledgment that the better man got the promotion, even though deep down you and they both know that you really are the better man and that the best man is the woman on the second floor.
~ Paul Beatty
And if an increasingly pluralistic America ever decides to commission a new motto, I'm open for business, because I've got a better one than E pluribus unum. Tu dormis, tu perdis . . . You snooze, you lose.
~ Paul Beatty
It's not that empathy itself automatically leads to kindness. Rather, empathy has to connect to kindness that already exists. Empathy makes good people better, then, because kind people don't like suffering, and empathy makes this suffering salient. If you made a sadist more empathic, it would just lead to a happier sadist,
~ Paul Bloom
This is a theory of why effort is often unpleasant. The phenomenology of getting tired doesn't reflect a diminishing resource; rather, it is about growing opportunity cost. This feeling of difficulty is a signal that there are better things to do elsewhere.
~ Paul Bloom
One of the key reasons that salespeople don't ask better questions is because they lack a plan.
~ Unknown
Since sin is deeper than bad behavior, trying to do better isn't a solution. Only grace that changes the heart can rescue us.
~ Paul David Tripp
God has given you the gift of his Son, not to make your little kingdom successful, but to welcome you to a much better kingdom. Now what in the world does that mean? Paul David Tripp
~ Paul David Tripp
when the mind has to work, learning sticks better.
~ Unknown
I doubt any system that won't reveal its purpose, that only offers promises of a better tomorrow.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ëWho will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!í Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.
~ Numbers 11:18
Are you now so much better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend with Israel or fight against them?
~ Judges 11:25
So Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you.
~ 1 Samuel 15:28
Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
~ Hebrews 8:6
So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
~ Hebrews 9:23
It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.
~ 2 Peter 2:21