Quotes About Better

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.

For some foolish reason, that desperateness seems to act on him better than your literary needs (of communication etc.). It is the more obvious need, and other writers put that forward.

Life, it's so unlikely," she said, then turned to me again. "It's so much better than we think it is, isn't it?

If you attach better services to a diagnostic category, some doctors will apply that diagnosis to children from whom it is not entirely appropriate in order to access those services.

Pot fi, într-o relaÈ›ie imperfect?, mult mai bine decât când sunt singur?.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

In neither case does the open-endedness of our inquiry suggest that there are no real facts to be known, or that some of the answers we have in hand are not really better than some others. Respect for diversity in our ethical views is, at best, an intellectual holding pattern until more of the facts are in.

The promise of spiritual life - indeed, the very thing that makes it 'spiritual' in the sense I invoke throughout this book - is that there are truths about the mind that we are better off knowing. What we need to become happier and to make the world a better place is not more pious illusions but a clearer understanding of the way things are.

He bemoans our miseries with the tender pity of a Cowper, who, in warning us of life's grovelling pursuits and empty joys, seeks, by withdrawing us from their delusive dominion, to prepare us for "another and a better world." No.

Explain yourself to me upon this compromise. If I can smooth the way between you — Yet I despair that any-thing will do but your conversion. They love your soul; they think they love it better than you do yourself. Is there not a merit in them, which you cannot boast in return?

Avoid career traps such as pursuing jobs that require you to sell your limited supply of time while preparing you for nothing better.

Treatment for malignancies had become only a little better than the tortures of a CIA black site.

The army, under Rosecrans' administration, looks better than it ever did before. He certainly enters into his work with his whole soul, and unless some unlucky mishap knocks his feet from under him, he will soon be recognized as the first general of the Union.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

You want a better life? Simplify your life! Throw all the complexities from your life!

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.

Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.