Better Quotes (page 46)

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• dream
• work
• brain

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams Ralph Waldo Emerson

• time
• believe
• broken

But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi) Elie Wiesel

• together
• him
• simple

Well, the fact is," said Celia, in a burst of girlish frankness, "Irather think I've killed George."Killed him, eh?"It was a solution that had not occurred to me, but now that it waspresented for my inspection I could see its merits. In these days ofnational effort, when we are all working together to try to make ourbeloved land fit for heroes to live in, it was astonishing that nobodybefore had thought of a simple, obvious thing like killing GeorgeMackintosh. George Mackintosh was... P. G. Wodehouse

• reading
• thinking
• reads

The only think most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting. John Adams

• creativity
• betterment
• creative

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness. Michael J. Fox

• fear
• journey
• than

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. Alan Paton

• betrayal
• you me

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine Baroness Orczy

• no time
• time
• perfect

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• about myself
• world
• play

My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself. Noel Coward

• saying
• than
• say

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. Henry David Thoreau

• law
• sees
• betterment

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. Otto von Bismarck

• memories
• may
• memorial

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is. Robert Smithson

• learning
• may
• you me

It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?" "But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan. "Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund. "I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there. C. S. Lewis

• little
• perfect
• death

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way. Marilyn French

• style
• styling
• than

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it. Charles Bukowski