Quotes about Better
When a stranger comes up to me in the street and tells me that something in life is better because of a movement I'm part of, it is way more satisfying than a fancy house or car.
- Gloria Steinem
The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
They order, said I, this matter better in France.
- Laurence Sterne
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
- 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, as, when any of the prouder passions are hurt, it is much better philosophy to let a man slip into a good temper than to attack him in a bad one
- Thomas Paine
When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
- Octavia Spencer
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
- Oscar Wilde
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.
- Cormac McCarthy
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what's bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
- Wendell Berry
Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.
- H Richard Niebuhr