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Betterment Quotes (page 206)

Mindy Kaling quote: "One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than..."
One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. Mindy Kaling
A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forward— that a way, however narrow and difficult, would in time open— predominated over other feelings: its influence hushed them so far, that at last I became sufficiently tranquil to be able to say my prayers and seek my couch. I had just extinguished my candle and lain down, when a deep, low, mighty tone swung through the night. At first I knew it not; but it was uttered twelve times, and at the... Charlotte Bronte
Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves anything. In science, experiments are designed, checked, altered, repeated-- but not in politics... We have no real cumulative knowledge. History tells us nothing. That's the tragedy of a political reformer. B. F. Skinner
Harry S. Truman quote: "The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the..."
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better. Harry S. Truman
Pearl S. Buck quote: "It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth..."
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty. Pearl S. Buck
It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be. Jeanette Winterson
Pope John XXIII quote: "If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light."
If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light. Pope John XXIII
Lew Wallace quote: "I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps..."
I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman. Lew Wallace
Marriage I think. For women. Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts. That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt. Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay. To trouble her... Stevie Smith
David O. McKay quote: "The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men..."
The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature. David O. McKay
Steig Larsson quote: "From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance,..."
From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation. Steig Larsson
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministraions so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio. Lafcadio Hearn
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories. Bill Watterson
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. Mark Twain
So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.'I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.'There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world,... J. K. Rowling

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