Quotes About Better

Maybe memory is overrated. Maybe forgetting is better. (Show me the Proust of forgetting, and I'll read him tomorrow.) Sometimes it's like juggling a hundred thousand crystal balls in the air at once, trying to keep all these memories going. Every time one falls to the floor and shatters into dust, another crevice cracks open inside me, through which another chunk of who we were disappears forever.

I suppose it would be better if one were aggressive, contentious and so on. But there's rarely any occasion to be savage.

He's clearly a man with a mission, but it's not one of vengeance. Bruce is not after personal revenge ... He's much bigger than that; he's much more noble than that. He wants the world to be a better place, where a young Bruce Wayne would not be a victim ... In a way, he's out to make himself unnecessary. Batman is a hero who wishes he didn't have to exist.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

Don't be bloody stupid, Achille. The whole world's in chaos, God's got better things to do than chuck stones at Pascaline.

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

Holding a live chicken sounds disgusting." "Better than holding a dead one.

When did you get so peppy?" she shouted. "Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly wasn't." "Then remind me to try to kill you once in a while," she snapped. "If I succeed, it will make me feel better, and if I fail, it will make you feel better. Everyone wins!

I will take responsibility for what I have done," whispered Dalinar. "If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.

Journey before destination," Dalinar said. "It cannot be a journey if it doesn't have a beginning. " A thunderclap sounded in his mind. Suddenly, awareness poured back into him. The Stormfather, distant, feeling frightened-but also surprised. Dalinar? "I will take responsibility for what I have done." Dalinar whispered. "If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.

I will take responsibility for what I have done. If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man

An existence of agony is better than no existence at all

Shame enters for those of us who experience anxiety because not only are we feeling fearful, out of control, and incapable of managing our increasingly demanding lives, but eventually our anxiety is compounded and made unbearable by our belief that if we were just smarter, stronger, or better, we'd be able to handle everything. Numbing here becomes a way to take the edge off of both instability and inadequacy.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old. You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe. Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, My father's in Schenectady.

Cara Isabel, la vita è meglio; perché nella vita c'è l'amore. È una buona cosa la morte... ma l'amore non c'è.

Men will sacrifice their lives to bring about a better world—whatever that may mean—but they will not budge an inch to attain paradise. Nor will they struggle to create a bit of paradise in the hell they find themselves.

I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

Credit unions are often a better deal than banks and tend to pay higher yields on deposits.

The generation that I'm in is extremely talented, and those that are still in school, my peers that are my age that will be out here really soon, you guys will see, will make a pretty easy transition on the PGA Tour. I don't think they will have a problem at all. The game is getting younger, and the game is getting better.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.