Better Quotes (page 108)

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• letting
• betterment
• speaking

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues. Anne Bronte

• difficult
• mindfulness
• love

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you. Haruki Murakami

• good
• marriage
• feeling

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. Anne Lamott

• clock
• time
• feeling

It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you came at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . . Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• change
• evening
• power words

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better. Nicholas Sparks

• cover
• new month
• priority

While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability... Michael Pollan

• god
• giving
• thank god

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark. Helen Keller

• look
• equality
• call me

Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners. James Ellroy

• good
• women
• men

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better! Terry Prachett

• wife
• parents
• revenge

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding. Graham Greene

• positive
• war
• warring

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. George Orwell

• kindness
• manly
• father

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be. Joe Biden

• him
• together
• welcome

Lussurioso: "Welcome, be not far off, we must be better acquainted. Push, be bold with us, thy hand!"Vindice: "With all my heart, i'faith. How dost, sweet musk-cat? When shall we lie together?"Lussurioso: (aside) "Wondrous knave! Gather him into boldness? 'Sfoot, the slave's. Already as familiar as an ague, And shakes me at his pleasure! -- Friend, I can. Forget myself in private, but elsewhere, I pray do you remember be."Vindice: "Oh, very well, sir. I conster myself saucy."Lussurioso: "What... Thomas Middleton

• real
• hell
• heavens

After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven? E. M. Forster

• power words
• unity
• scientific

Under these conditions it is no wonder, that the movement of atheists, which declares religion to be just a deliberate illusion, invented by power-seeking priests, and which has for the pious belief in a higher Power nothing but words of mockery, eagerly makes use of progressive scientific knowledge and in a presumed unity with it, expands in an ever faster pace its disintegrating action on all nations of the earth and on all social levels. I do not need to explain in any more detail that... Max Planck