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Quotes About Better

She sank down in the chair again, gingerly, as if it would splinter. It might. Hades had made it himself, discovering in the process that he was a better Lord of Souls than he was Lord of Furniture.
~ Larissa Ione
The world won't change for the better unless we trust people, trust is vital to a peaceful world.
~ Larry Foulke
What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
~ Laura Linney
Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.
~ Laurel Clark
As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence. We behave as though up is better and more is better, and yet all around us we see the tragic victims of this mindless escalation.
~ Laurence J. Peter
They order, said I, this matter better in France.
~ Laurence Sterne
In his own little hometown, they'd been suspicious of ideas: he'd grown up surrounded by a kind of resigned cynicism, though he'd been sure the world could be better.
~ Celeste Ng
Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.
~ Charles Dickens
and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better. But come! I'll tell you a story of another kind.
~ Charles Dickens
But struggling with these better feelings was pride,—the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured.
~ Charles Dickens
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; It is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
~ Charles Dickens
The kind of submission or resignation that he he showed, was that of a man who was tired out. I sometimes derived an impression, from his manner or from a widespread word or two which escaped him, that he pondered over the question whether he might have been a better man under better circumstances but he never justified himself by a hint tending that way or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.
~ Charles Dickens
Because, if it is to spite her," Biddy pursued, "I should think — but you know best — that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think — but you know best — she was not worth gaining over.
~ Charles Dickens
Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Circles"
You went to a strange land searching For a truth you felt was wrong That's when the heartaches started Though you're where you want to be You're not where you belong When your love has moved away You must face yourself and you must say I remember better days
~ Graham Nash
People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.
~ Gregory
You can influence yourself & promise there will be better days.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Let this time in your life challenge you to face today. life is intended to make you better, not bitter.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
It's better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing. Because if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.
~ James Hollis
Imagine what our story would look like if, rather than succumbing to the insistent voices of family or culture, we determined that our vocation was to be a better human.
~ James Hollis, Ph.D.
Either way, it was a grand afternoon, one that presaged an even better evening and access to all the fruits the world had to offer.
~ James Lee Burke
Besides, isn't it better to let evil die inside its own flame?
~ James Lee Burke
That's because I'm a better person, frankly. I am a freaking princess when it comes to other people's feelings.
~ James Patterson