Better Now Quotes - Page 2

• I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Thank You, Feelings, Obsessed

  "There Is Only One Issue In America" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2011.

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• Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Curves, Balls

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• When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: "She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.

  Janet Evanovich

  Grandma, Oxygen, Talking

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• I'm able to express myself better now. I have come to accept the real me. I have come to love the real me. I now celebrate the real me.

  Charice Pempengco

  Real, Able, Celebrate

  "You’re the man, Charice!". Interview with Bum D. Tenorio, Jr., www.philstar.com. May 28, 2013.

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• Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better now, but I did miss him. For all the misery he caused, I knew with certainty that he loved us. Those aren't things you can weigh or measure away. ... They're not opposites that cancel each other out. They're both true at the same time.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Father, Opposites, Missing

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• I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.

  Steve Buscemi

  Hate, People, Hatred

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• This or something better now manifests for me in totally satisfying and harmonious ways, for the highest good of all concerned.

  Shakti Gawain

  Way, Affirmation, Something Better

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.23, Mango Media Inc.

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• When called to the Council of the Twelve, October 4, 1963, he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: I think of a little sister, a French-Canadian sister, whose life was changed by the missionaries as her spirit was touched. As she said good-by to me and my wife in Quebec, she said, "President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sister, Thinking, Lakes

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• We never hid anything from the kids. I feel whole again, I really do. I've told them, 'Mommy's boo-boo is much better now.'

  Wanda Sykes

  Cancer, Kids, Feels

  "Wanda Sykes: I Feel Whole Again" by Julie Jordan, people.com. October 27, 2011.

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• I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

  Alton Brown

  Sympathy, Games, Play

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• I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

  Barack Obama

  Race, Years, Relation

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

  Ricky Williams

  Moving, Yoga, Healing

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• Let's hope you feel better now.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Feel Better, Feels

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• Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle.

  E. M. Forster

  Teaching, Fate, Men

  E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.224, Diversion Books

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• And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.

  Charles Frazier

  Brother, Past, Self

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.422, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

  Jerry Garcia

  Years, People, Trying

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• I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

  Henry Rollins

  Broken, Lessons, Tough

  Henry Rollins (1996). “Do I Come Here Often”, 2.13.61 Publications

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• The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Feel Better, Jumping, Years

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• If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Average, Civilization

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.33, Virginia Woolf

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• I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don’t like looking at them so much. There’s a sort of pretty thing about me.

  Christopher Walken

  Boys, Thinking, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not the person I once was. I have Thorn now, and... I'm not fighting for myself anymore....It makes a difference....I used to think you were a fool to keep risking your life as you have...I know better now. I understand...why. I understand...' His [Murtagh] eyes widened and his grimace relaxed, as if his pain was forgotten, and an inner light seemed to illuminate his features. 'I understand-we understand.

  Christopher Paolini

  Pain, Eye, Fighting

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• Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Communication, Vietnam

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.

  William Goldman

  Running, Memories, Father

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.149, A&C Black

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• I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Girl, Liars, Lying

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• Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot better now that Apollo had worked some medical magic on him. "Rachel may use a guest room in the Big House for now, until we give the matter more thought." "I'm thinking a cave in the hills," Apollo mused. "With torches and a big purple curtain over the entrance . . . really mysterious. But inside, a totally decked-out pad with a game room and one of those home theater systems.

  Rick Riordan

  Home, Thinking, Games

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