Quotes About Better

She had filled her days mourning that shadow life, and it had no more meaning than the chattering of monkeys. Instead, these last few weeks, she had seen what might have been had she not felt perpetually done out of something better.

You can keep the sectional,she'd said. He hadn't, although it had been a bitch getting it out of the house, and he'd finally used a chain saw, which somehow made him feel better about things. - Jim Bates

My lifelong and core belief, right after the conviction that I was defective, mildly annoying, and better than everyone else was that my help was helpful.

For a wild moment he thought of friendship, a closeness better than romance, cleaner and more honest; then it disappeared.

Why is it we still see our sons as children who can be excused, given time and love and patience, even when they are grown men and need to know better?

Roget looked so profoundly timid. What is it like, working for a well-dressed lunatic who pays you triple what anyone else would pay to forget your better judgment?

Good and evil, those are concepts man has made. And man is better, really, than the Savage Garden.

Maybe they're not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen. And that better thing is us.

When our name is on a project, our ego pushes us over the hump and drives us to do even better work.

There's a practice available to each of us—the practice of embracing the process of creation in service of better. The practice is not the means to the output, the practice is the output

Flynn Berry wrote that you should never use the word "opportunity." It's not an opportunity, it's an obligation. I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

You are not your work. Your work is a series of choices made with generous intent to cause something to happen. We can always learn to make better choices.

You do people a service when you make better things and make it easy to talk about them. The best reason someone talks about you is because they're actually talking about themselves: "Look at how good my taste is." Or perhaps, "Look at how good I am at spotting important ideas.

Life is actually far better than it is in the movies. And it takes longer.

The opportunity cost of investing your life in something that's not going to get better is too high.

You can learn to see how human beings dream, decide, and act. And if you help them become better versions of themselves, the ones they seek to be, you're a marketer.

Troubles may ofttimes be so dire that they cannot get better. But they are never so dire that they still cannot get worse.

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He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life.

Your mother is a better man than me. Mothers are almost always better men than men are.

That would be like making a pact with Lucifer. (Zarek) Yes, but I don't smell like sulfur. And I happen to dress better. Luc always looks like a pimp. (Dionysus)

Evil? (Sin) To the core of her rotten soul. (Kat) It's true. There's nothing like a bitch in heels, of which I'm the biggest. I know there has to be a point to this, since you're in a dream with gorgeous twins and nobody's naked. I could have sworn I taught you better, Katra. (Kytara)

Trust me, baby, you weren't that good. I was just a better actress than you were actor. (Zephyra to Stryker) Ew! No offense, Mum, I don't want to know who you've slept with. Kill the sexual bantering and him before I go deaf from it. (Medea)

Still, it's better to be distracted by the crowd than to be left with memories that serve no purpose other than to torture the conscience and flog the heart.