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Quotes About Better

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Better is it now to purify the soul from sin, than to cling to sins from which we must be purged hereafter. Truly we deceive ourselves by the inordinate love which we bear towards the flesh.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I really have to give the Navy all the credit it deserves. They were so flexible and accommodating, given that everybody on board had better things to worry about than this person coming on board who's just going to be in the way, really.
~ Geoff Dyer
I was a bit nervous before I got married and Ant said to me: 'Honestly, it just gets better.' It's amazing and the best thing I ever did.
~ Declan Donnelly
I want to have new challenges and write new crazy books because I think it makes me a better writer to be insecure and try new things.
~ David Lagercrantz
I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.
~ Rebecca Hall
the past can only be escaped by embracing something better, and he figured that was what she'd done.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not to try at all.
~ Nicole Krauss
My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
We have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help ensure that the worst will happen. Or we can be optimistic, grasp the opportunities that surely exist, and maybe help make the world a better place. Not much of a choice.
~ Noam Chomsky
Tenemos dos opciones. Podemos ser pesimistas, abandonar y contribuir a que ocurra lo peor sin vuelta atrás. O ser optimistas, atrapar las oportunidades que sin duda existen y contribuir, tal vez, a que el mundo sea un lugar mejor. No es una elección demasiado difícil.
~ Noam Chomsky
As Chomsky says, if you act like there is no possibility of change for the better, you guarantee that there will be no change for the better. The choice is ours, the choice is yours. Robert
~ Noam Chomsky
if you assume that there is no hope,then you guarantee that there will be no hope. if you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is possibility that you can contribute to making a better world
~ Noam Chomsky
Don't apologize. It's better to see and know you're a fool than to keep your eyes shut and keep acting like one.
~ Nora Roberts
All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's nothing perfect or complete, but this is what I've made of my life. Right or wrong, it follows no great master plan. All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
La función de los programas concurso es que nos sintamos mejor cuando pensamos en todos esos datos aleatorios e inútiles que es lo único que nos queda de la educación que hemos recibido
~ Chuck Palahniuk
And the New Republic or the New-New Republic or the Republic We Got This Week will clamp down hard and then those people with the so-called better way will become the brave rebel alliance and the Republic will become the enemy and the wheel will turn once more.
~ Chuck Wendig
He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place. and he was in the habit of hoping for it.
~ Colum McCann
the individual personality, however, remains essentially unpredictable. The basis for any predictions would be represented by biological, psychological or sociological conditions. Yet one of the main features of human existence is the capacity to rise above such conditions, to grow beyond them. Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
The present was better. Much, much better. Humans had coffee now. And gelato.
~ Larissa Ione