Better Quotes

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.

~ Charles M. Blow

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

~ Bill Maher

I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.

~ Nate Parker

Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.

~ Sam Houston

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

~ Karen Armstrong

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

~ Douglas Macarthur

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

~ Thomas Paine

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.

~ Ashton Kutcher

Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they're gonna get better, that there's a higher lesson to what I'm going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that's true faith.

~ Keke Palmer

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

~ George Gurdjieff

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

~ Anne F. Beiler

Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.

~ Kelly Wearstler

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

~ Trent Reznor

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

~ Donald Norman

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

~ Bill Gates

Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.

~ Craig Venter

My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

~ Brad Pitt

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

~ Donatella Versace

If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.

~ Dhani Harrison

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

~ Guy De Maupassant

There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.

~ John Sentamu

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.

~ Sumner Redstone

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

~ John Lydon

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

~ Eric Sevareid

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

~ Barack Obama

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

~ Samuel Johnson

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

~ Simon Sinek

If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

~ Daniel Kahneman

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

~ Elbert Hubbard

We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.

~ Joel Salatin

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

~ Keira Knightley

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

~ Dixie Lee Ray

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

~ Arthur Helps

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

~ Rufus Wainwright

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

~ Oscar Niemeyer

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

~ Jeff Kinney

When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.

~ Jason Sudeikis