Better Off Quotes - Page 18

• Yeah, if it hadn't been for me everybody'd be a lot better off--my wife and my kids and my friends.... I wish I'd never been born.I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all.

  Frances Goodrich

  Kids, Wife, Wish

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  The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.

  John Hancock

  Country, Business, Cities

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• And in reaching out and doing these new things you get into this strange kind of shape where you are better off than if you were just resting, because you're using things that wouldn't otherwise be mute.

  George Hamilton

  Shapes, Strange, Kind

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Opportunity, Government

  "At Least Somebody Is Talking About Poverty Again" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 25, 2012.

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• The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So it's getting worse, the deterioration by professionals is getting worse. The public would be better off in an index fund.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Would Be, Deterioration

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• The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  People, Results, Contact

  "Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (The Wisdom of Life)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, 1851.

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• When you're younger, you ride with 90% physical and 10% mental. But if you could learn how to use 90% mental and 10% physical you'd be better off.

  Buck Brannaman

  Use, Ifs

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• I feel like the human body is what it is, and the more you make yourself comfortable with it, the better off you are. Love your body and embrace that.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Love You, Body, Embrace

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.

  Katie Couric

  Life Is, Fairs, Not Fair

  "Condoleezza Rice Tells Katie Couric, "I Don't Miss Washington Very Much"". Conversation, www.glamour.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Average, Europe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A novel is like an animal you have to hunt down and kill. If you let it sit for two days, it's got a two-day head start. So, if I just look at it every day, I'm so much better off.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Animal, Two, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher.

  Mark Martin

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.

  David Axelrod

  Thinking, President, Care

  "Guest: Obama Advisor David Axelrod". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2012.

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• I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Thinking, Wind

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Says No to The Exorcist in 3D". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Let`s teach those people that when they go to work, they get skills, they meet people, they get opportunities, they get to climb the ladder, they get much better off than the person who`s just sitting at home receiving those things.

  Benjamin Carson

  Home, Opportunity, Skills

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Because you don't belong with him! I tried to tell you that, but you wouldn't listen, and I thought if you understood that he'd be better off without you, you'd break up with him for his own good. So I...exaggerated how easy it'd be for him to get over you, with Sabine there to step in. But I underestimated how incredibly stubborn you are" "I prefer to think of it as dedication..." I mumbled.

  Rachel Vincent

  Thinking, Dedication, Over You

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• There are memories I a better off without. Things better lost forever.

  S.J. Watson

  Memories, Forever, Lost

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• A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong.

  John Marsden

  People, Suffering, Would Be

  John Marsden (1996). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, Laurel Leaf

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• Captain Jack: Rose, you are worth fighting for. [Jack kisses Rose passionately] Captain Jack: Wish I'd never met you, Doctor, I was much better off as a coward. [Jack kisses the Doctor the same way]

  Russell T Davies

  Fighting, Kissing, Doctors

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• For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Order, Enemy, Might

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Sir Thomas More, Sir (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Success, Cheating, Freedom

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• We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.

  Rachel Cohn

  Two, World, Knows

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.86, Egmont UK

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• I’ve been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time – that you’re where you’re supposed to be. And it occurred to me, can you prove you’d be better off somewhere else? If you’d have left the state, your relationship would have ended still. Maybe you’d have even blamed yourself, not knowing that it was doomed because of him, either way. Instead, you’re here. You got dumped, skipped class, and met the best econ tutor at the university! Who knows, maybe I’ll make you fall in love with economics.

  Tammara Webber

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.

  Maria Semple

  Life, Girl, Thinking

  Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Teacher, Mean, Adversity

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