Better Quotes

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

~ John O. Brennan

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

~ Adam Schiff

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

~ Menander

I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.

~ Michael Scheuer

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

~ Cleveland Amory

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

~ Joe Elliott

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

~ Leon Krier

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.

~ Christian De Portzamparc

Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.

~ Steve Erickson

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

~ E. E. Cummings

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

~ Neil Peart

I love being challenged and defending my positions and, when I'm wrong, learning from the exchange. It makes me smarter and better as a businessperson.

~ Mark Cuban

My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.

~ Chesley Sullenberger

I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.

~ Åsa Larsson

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.

~ Steve Irwin

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

~ Phaedrus

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

~ Yogi Berra

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

~ Kevin James

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

~ Aesop

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

~ Simon Van Booy

I think the basic thing that home cooks can learn how to do is just season properly... If the home cook realized how little salt they use compared to what's needed, it would make their food taste better.

~ David Chang

Real food, I've found, is actually better than dieting.

~ Angelina Jolie

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

~ Scott Adams

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

~ Michael Berryman

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

~ Charles Kettering

Like most guys, I've always liked watches. I can always check the time on my phone, but having a watch is so much better.

~ Andy Murray

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.

~ Steven Hall

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

~ Adam Carolla

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

~ Kate Millett

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

~ Gloria Steinem

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?

~ Rita Rudner

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

~ Brian Tracy

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

~ Golda Meir

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

~ St. Jerome

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

~ Lil Wayne

At United, there are great traditions, which you can't buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

~ Cristiano Ronaldo

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

~ Robert Richardson