Something Better Quotes - Page 5

• Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fight Club Book, Break

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

  Marsha Norman

  Thinking, People, Might

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• Don’t you two girls have something better to do, like pick out toe lint? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Two, Toes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.496, Macmillan

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• Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

  Donald Miller

  Order, Comfort, Want

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.100, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Mind, Suffering

  "When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times". Book by Pema Chodron, December 24, 1996.

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• Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell.

  Simon R. Green

  Farewell, Night, Lasts

  Simon R. Green (2016). “Deathstalker Coda”, p.297, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.

  Sylvia Plath

  Progress, Done, Delusion

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.141, Anchor

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• In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Character, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

  Walt Disney

  Perfectionist, Staff, Insisting

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• A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Pretending, Snob

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• In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.

  Katherine Schwarzenegger

  Motivational, Growing Up, Thinking

  Katherine Schwarzenegger (2014). “I Just Graduated ... Now What?: Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There”, p.46, Crown Archetype

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• I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to those millions of unsung men and women, who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try to keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Morning, Sorry

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• When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.

  Criss Jami

  Creativity, Responsibility, Complaining

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.32, Criss Jami

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• Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Money, Men, Long

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• I'll never understand why people go to movie theaters to have conversations. Going to the movies to talk is like going to a restaurant to cook. The idea is that you have paid your money to have someone do something better than you can do it yourself.

  Rita Rudner

  Ideas, People, Restaurants

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

  John Cage

  Music, Strong, Ears

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• In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

  Desmond Tutu

  Sorry, Humility, Order

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always feel. Our disappointment is itself a sign, and aching, a hunger for something better. And faith is, in the end, a kind of homesickness - for a home we have never visited but have never once stopped longing for.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Religious, Disappointment

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.202, Harper Collins

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• I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. It is, but there are a lot of times where people treat it like a sport - there are tricks you can pull, different combinations that make something better. I don't really think I approach it that way, but I definitely have a love for the science that is pop song writing.

  Halsey

  Sports, Song, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When it comes to explaining the Blessed Virgin Mary, having a lot of love is more important than having a lot of answers. When we come up lacking, she’ll make greater goods out of our deficiencies, as only a mother can do. Whenever we're humiliated and shown our weakness, we should get ready for something better than we could ever plan and prepare to accomplish. Evangelize with joy, then, and with confidence. Know from the start that you don’t have all the answers-but your Savior does, and He loves His mother. He will give you everything you need, even if sometimes you need to fail.

  Scott Hahn

  Mother, Blessed, Love Is

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• We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Moving, Thinking

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• If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part.

  Barack Obama

  People, Community, Promise

  Remarks by the President in Closing of the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 18, 2015.

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• That's when America soars, when we look out for one another and we take care of each other, when we root for one another's success, when we strive to do better and to be better than the generation that came before us and try to build something better for generations to come, that's why we do what we do. That's the whole point of public service.

  Barack Obama

  Success, Roots, America

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• I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

  Garrison Keillor

  Eye, Details, Stories

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• I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'

  Jack Canfield

  Disappointment, Self, People

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