Better Off Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.

  Westbrook Pegler

  Cities, Usa, Community

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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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• If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Believe, Struggle, Party

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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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• And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.

  Lisa Scottoline

  New Year, Years, Matter

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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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• We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Thinking, Done

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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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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• 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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• 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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• In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.

  Peter Thiel

  Mean, Growth, Progress

  Source: bigthink.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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• This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Mind, Battle, Life Is

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1969). “Little Town on the Prairie”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.

  Arthur Golden

  Eye, Light, Darkness

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• Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Ambition, Dull Life

  Ann Patchett (2004). “Truth and Beauty: A Friendship”

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• I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now.

  Veronica Roth

  Next, Taught, Abnegation

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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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• 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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• I think there are hard-liners inside of Iran that think it is the right thing to do to oppose us, to seek to destroy Israel, to cause havoc in places like Syria or Yemen or Lebanon, if they don't change at all, we're still better off having the deal.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Thinking, Israel

  "Obama Compares Iran Deal To A House Under Contract, Awaiting Appraisal". "The Two-Way" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. April 7, 2015.

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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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