Better Off Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• 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 So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.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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• So, it becomes the devil's business to keep the Christian's spirit imprisoned. He knows that the believing and justified Christian has been raised up out of the grave of his sins. From that point on, Satan works that much harder to keep us bound and gagged, in our own grave clothes. He knows that if we continue in this kind of bondage...we are not much better off than when we were spiritually dead.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Believe, Clothes

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• Sometimes you have to lose major championships before you can win them. It's the price you pay for maturing. The more times you can put yourself in pressure situations, the more times you compete, the better off you are.

  Tom Watson

  Wrestling, Winning, Pay

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• For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.

  Pam Brown

  Family, Mother, Heart

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• News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

  Evan Williams

  Ideas, People, Would Be

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• As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine blacks better off, no problem. But they still can't imagine black people who are just like them. That's the real problem. That's racism. Not being able to believe that those others are actually just like you.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Real, Believe, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?

  Yvon Chouinard

  Sports, Passion, Past

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• An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

  Paul Lynde

  Knowing, Actors, Comedy

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

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• Trump is a little tone-deaf to the average American. He unveiled his slogan this week: 'Are you better off than you were four wives ago?'

  Bill Maher

  Average, Wife, Four

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

  Adam Schiff

  World, Conventional Wisdom, Saddam

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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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• 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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