Better Off Quotes

• Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Better Off Dead, Way, Turns

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2015

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• Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.26, Random House

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• Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

  Donald Trump

  Investing Money, Entrepreneur, Paper

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• Sometimes things are better off forgotten.

  Simone Elkeles

  Sometimes, Forgotten

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• He loved her enough to know she was better off without him

  Cassandra Clare

  Enough, Knows, Tessa Gray

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Giving, Better Off Dead, Want

  Carol Ann Duffy (2016). “Selling Manhattan”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Trust Me, Better Off Alone

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “Safe Haven”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Hands, Legs, Would Be

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• I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible.

  Dorothy Allison

  Running, Past, Thinking

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• If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Mean, Men

  "The Time Machine". Book by H. G. Wells, 1895.

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• War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

  Karl Kraus

  Hope, Peace, War

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• As a society, we've learned that we're all better off
  when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

  Edward Kennedy

  Opportunity, Society, Inclusion

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• Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

  Ronald Reagan

  Years, Four, Politics

  "Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches".

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• I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.

  Gerry Adams

  Sunday, Years, News

  "Gerry Adams: 'I'm happy with who I am ... it's very important to be a subversive'" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.

  Patti Stanger

  Men, Two, Long

  "The Millionaire Matchmaker Knows How To Love Like a Hot Chick". Interview with Jodi Lipper, Cerina Vincent, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• I'm glad I don't have a lot of money in the market. And quite frankly, you'd be better off giving your money to a colorblind roulette addict than put it in the stock market.

  Dennis Miller

  Giving, Roulette, Glad

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

  Joey McIntyre

  Love You, Love Yourself, Learn To Love Yourself

  Song: Stay the Same, 1999

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• Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

  Adam Schiff

  World, Conventional Wisdom, Saddam

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• If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Philosophical

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

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• Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing.

  Lauren Oliver

  Crazy, Love Is, Escaping

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.

  Hugh Howey

  Past

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)”, p.123, Random House

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• The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Simple, Should Have

  Erich Maria Remarque, Helmuth Kiesel, Joseph Roth (2004). “All quiet on the western front”, Continuum International Publishing Group

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• They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Running, Hurt, Grief

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• If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Philosophy, Believe, Passion

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