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Better Quotes (page 87)

I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I hate myself, bitterly it's too late yet while I feel better I still feel ephemeral and unreal and unable to straighten my thoughts or even really grieve, in fact I feel too stupid to be really bitter, in short I don't know what I'm doing and I'm being told what to do... Jack Kerouac
Martin Luther quote: "It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think..."
It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church. Martin Luther
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern. Robert A. Heinlein
As for reading, I doubt whether she did much better by the sea-side than she had done in the town. Men and women say that they will read, and think so—those, I mean, who have acquired no habit of reading—believing the work to be, of all works, the easiest. It may be work, they think, but of all works it must be the easiest of achievement. Given the absolute faculty of reading, the task of going through the pages of a book must be, of all tasks, the most certainly within the grasp of the man... Anthony Trollope
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read. C. S. Lewis
Marya Mannes quote: "People on horses look better than they are. People in cars..."
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are. Marya Mannes
that's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself". (p. 717) Wally Lamb
Jane Austen quote: "The less said the better."
The less said the better. Jane Austen
We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards, gold stars, or papers marked 100 and tacked to the wall, or A's on report cards, or honor rolls, or dean's lists, or Phi Beta Kappa keys, in short, for the ignoble satisfaction of feeling that they are better than someone else. John Holt
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult. Paramahansa Yogananda
Elaine Dundy quote: "I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When..."
I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous. Elaine Dundy
There are places I'll remember. All my life though some have changed. Some forever not for better. Some have gone and some remain. All these places have their moments. With lovers and friends I still can recall. Some are dead and some are living. In my life I've loved them all John Lennon
Life doesn't count for much unless you're willing to do your small part to leave our children? all of our children? a better world. Even if it's difficult. Even if the work seems great. Even if we don't get very far in our lifetime. Barack Obama
Elvis Costello quote: "I took my better nature out, drowned it in a babbling..."
I took my better nature out, drowned it in a babbling stream/took the blossom of my youth and blew it all to smithereens. Elvis Costello
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence. Sri Aurobindo

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