Better Quotes

Better a long ignoble life of shallow pleasures than a short stab at heroism, ending with a short stab. And just because one man plays another doesn’t always mean that it’s not the right direction for both of them.

~ Mark Lawrence

Hana? Lena says softly. Are you okay?That single stupid question breaks me. All the metal fingers relax me at once, and the tears they've been holding back come surging up at once. Suddenly I am sobbing and telling her everything: about the raid, and the dogs, and the sounds of skulls cracking underneath regulator's nightsticks. Thinking about it again makes me feel like I might puke. At a certain point, Lena puts her arms around me and starts murmuring things into my hair. I don't even know what she's saying, and I don't care. JUst having her here—solid, real, on my side—makes me feel better than I have in weeks. Slowly I manage to stop crying, swallowing back the hiccups and sobs that are still running through me. I try to tell her that I've missed her, and that I've been stupid and wrong, but my voice is muffled and thick

~ Lauren Oliver

The last week hadn’t been any better, come to think of it. On Monday they arrived at Gorda, just to find that the cargo of electronics he was to ship to Beowulf had been taken by another freighter for a lower fee. It took him until Wednesday before he found another cargo – which had to reach Earth by Saturday. The last straw was when his crew mutinied a day out of the Hermes system and demanded a pay increase. The union tended to call that sort of thing “collective bargaining”, not actually mutiny, but hey – the results are the same. He tended to favor the term “piracy”, but this wasn’t the high seas and out here, there were real pirates to worry about. His former crew had also wanted more time off and a better cook – at least one who knew how which end of a frying pan to hold. He was unable to comply, and so was forced to stop at Beowulf anyway. That was the last time he saw them. Fortunately for him, Weaver, Fuller and Jang opted to stay with him. Whether it was out of loyalty, or perhaps just convenience, he never knew.

~ Christina Engela

The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.

~ Tod Wodicka

You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo' life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

~ Mark Twain

I do not understand when a person is more concerned with the appearance of their house than the state of their home.

~ Gillian Duce

He would be a better person, he knows. He would be a more loving person.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.

~ Christian D. Larson

Everybody really wanna be the best. I just wanna be a bit better than them.

~ Toba Beta

Sometimes you don't want better but just what is YOURS..

~ Rd

Knowing that I make somebody's day better is all that matters at the end of the day.

~ Raven Symone

If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life is better when you're drunk. I ought to become an alcoholic.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

Even when you're down, there is still hope. No matter how bad things get and no matter how small a hope there is, anything is better than nothing, No matter how bad things get, they can always, ALWAYS get worse. Take my word on that.

~ Christina Engela

You do not have to feel truer than others in order to be original.You just need to be different and keep aspiring to be a better you.

~ Toba Beta

It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

~ Jony Ive

Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.

~ Seth Godin

Nightmares are at all times better than real life, because you always have the chance to start over everything.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Better is the enemy of best.

~ Stan Beecham

This isn't a drill, sir!What d'you mean this isn't a drill? It couldn't be! It wasn't possible. Things like that only happen in blockbuster sci-fi movies, not in real life!It's not a drill, sir! This is the real thing! You'd better get up here right away sir! Sir? Sir!But Commander Ortez was already on his way -- and he was running.When he eventually made his theatrical entrance on the bridge, nothing had happened yet. He wheezed.Well? He appealed, ready for anything. After that, this had better not be a drill. Or else.

~ Christina Engela

You win, not by defeating others, but by performing better than before.

~ Vikrmn

Every man sees his wife like an angel, until he gets a better one.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

It is better to wait until you get the right thing, at the right time and in the right place; than to race for the wrong thing, at the wrong time and in the wrong place, for it yields nothing but disgrace.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

You know you are wealthy when you lose count of the people whose lives you changed for the better.

~ Gugu Mona

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

~ Richard Branson

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

~ Henry Ford

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

~ Lincoln Steffens

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

~ John D. Rockefeller

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

~ Warren Buffett

I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.

~ Mian Muhammad Mansha

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

~ Khalil Gibran

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

~ David Joseph Schwartz

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

~ Aristotle

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

~ Mel Brooks

The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

~ Christian Louboutin

More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.

~ Rihanna

I've certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'. I've been rather a good boy and really given it everything when I've accepted a part since then, because I've been given much better parts in films.

~ Hugh Grant

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

~ Charley Pride

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.

~ Lita Ford

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

~ Joseph Kosinski