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Sydney Smith quote: "A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better..."
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand. Sydney Smith
There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things. Wendell Berry
Mother Teresa quote: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Mother Teresa
When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. Maya Angelou
We should get a move on you know... ask someone. He's right. We don't want to end up with a pair of trolls."Hermione let out a sputter of indignation. "A pair of... what excuse me?"Well - you know," said Ron shrugging. "I'd rather go alone than with - with Eloise Midgen, say."Her acne's loads better lately - and she's really nice."Her nose's off-centre," said Ron."Oh I see," Hermione said bristling. "So basically you're going to take the best-looking girl who'll have you even if she's... J. K. Rowling
Margaret Atwood quote: "So much better to travel than to arrive."
So much better to travel than to arrive. Margaret Atwood
To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply too great to resist. Stephen King
Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. So it goes. Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because... Kurt Vonnegut
-'Why is it not permitted to us to assist the weak?' -'God has granted them something better than you possess: a mind and a soul,' said Sahloul simply. Naguib Mahfouz
Alice Walker quote: "We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d..."
We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand Alice Walker
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be. George Santayana
The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular shirts-not always trying to show off what you have. You talk less about it. It's like you have a little BMW - you want to race the hell out of this car, because you know it's just going 110. But if you see guys driving a ferrari or a lamborghini, they slide around at 60 on the freeway because they know if they press on that accelerator they are going to go 170. These things are the same in... Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ranger’s gonna hate this,” Tank said. “Better to get shot than to have to explain the gate. Bad enough I got a horse that smells like his shower gel. Janet Evanovich
Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debateare as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements andalarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and itfell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of myfellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in thestrength to keep to it. Robert Louis Stevenson
Stephenie Meyer quote: "It’s just been my experience that some kinds of working..."
It’s just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain. Stephenie Meyer

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