Better Off Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  Karl Marlantes

  Military, Kids, Thinking

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• Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence, these folks aren't about to give up on actively managed funds themselves. A tad delusional? I think so. Picking the best-performing funds is 'like trying to predict the dice before you roll them down the craps table,' says an investment adviser in Boca Raton, FL. 'I can't do it. The public can't do it.'

  Paul Samuelson

  Giving Up, Self Confidence, Thinking

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• If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

  Warren Buffett

  Government, Investing, Partners

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• President Bush says he has just one question for the American voters, 'Is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were four years ago?'

  Jay Leno

  Years, President, American Voters

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• Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.

  Charles Stanley

  Spiritual, Pain, Believe

  Charles F. Stanley “How to Handle Adversity”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Hands, Community, Producers

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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 are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Law, Knowing, Sausage

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• The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times, there were families of 15 children. Someone like Edward Lear, he was the last of 21 children. And so what we have to think about is offering people the alternative choice. And in the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. I'm wanting human beings to be better off so they don't view children as an insurance for the future.

  David Attenborough

  Children, Thinking, Offering

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

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• A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!

  T. Boone Pickens

  Genius, Fool, Plans

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• Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Ideas, Paradise, Way

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• If you listen to a song and get an image in your head, and then you go home and watch mtv and the image they're showing is the same as the one in your head, kill yourself. You're better off coming back as a lobster.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Song, Home

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• True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Statements

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Feb 24, 2013

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• We're all better off...when we're all better off.

  Eric Liu

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2011). “The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government”, p.79, Sasquatch Books

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• All companies would be better off if they stopped trying to be amazing and just focused on being useful.

  Jay Baer

  Trying, Would Be, Company

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• So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.

  Lucy Parsons

  Believe, Government, Law

  "The Principles of Anarchism". A Lecture by Lucy E. Parsons, lucyparsons.org.

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• I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Needs, Updates

  "Art Spiegelman On The Future of the Book". Interview with Brian Heater, www.publishersweekly.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Dream, Night, Garden

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