Better Off Quotes - Page 6

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

World, Feels, Universe

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What freedom and hope is found in Christ! We don’t need to feel beautiful about ourselves to find happiness! In fact, we’re better off not even thinking about ourselves. Rather, God has offered us in Jesus Christ forgiveness, hope, freedom from sin and a joy that never ends.

Carolyn Mahaney

Beautiful, Jesus, Thinking

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Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.

Rosalynn Carter

Important, Diagnosis, Mental Illness

"Rosalynn Carter: Advocate for the mentally ill". Interview with Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. August 11, 2010.

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I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

Christopher Walken

Inspirational, Impression, Socializing

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The world is my oyster.
The road is my home.
And I know that I'm better off
Alone.

Ani DiFranco

Home, Oysters, World

Song: Dilate Complete Album, Album: Dilate, 1996

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The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

Allan Houston

Father, Integrity, Real

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I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.

Adrienne Bailon

Ideas, Perfection, Important

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It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Adam Schiff

Wisdom, War, Iraq

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It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, though I have to go there very often.... Have you ever noticed that no American writer of any consequence lives in Manhattan? Dreiser tried it (after many years in the Bronx), but finally moved to California.

H. L. Mencken

New York, Years, California

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Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.

Tim Ferriss

Years, Months, Week

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Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.

Gunnar Myrdal

Country, People, Would Be

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Flea brain, got a hole in her head. If she wasn't good looking, she'd be better off dead.

Gene Vincent

Friendship, Brain, Better Off Dead

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Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

Maya Lin

Parent, Chinese, Would Be

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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

Joe Sakic

I Can

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Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Chesley Sullenberger

Generations, Pilots, Found

"'Miracle on Hudson' pilot retires" by Marnie Hunter, www.cnn.com. March 3, 2010.

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When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."

E. W. Howe

Men, Glad, Dies

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A lot of people just think that that's unreasonable or preposterous. But you know, if everybody chose to do it God's way, the world would be a lot better off.

Jase Robertson

Thinking, People, Would Be

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With this ranking system, the more you play, the better off you are.

Pete Sampras

Play, Ranking

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We would all be better off if our doctors took us aside, sat down next to us, and gave us this compassionate, yet universally true, warning, I'm very sorry to have to remind you of this, but you've got only so much time to live; I suggest you begin, now, to make the most of every minute of every day.

Bill Phillips

Sorry, Doctors, Warning

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I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.

Brian May

Thinking, Play, America

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When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

Lewis Blaine Hershey

People, Hog, Specialists

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You feel kind of weird cheering for chaos. There is that sense that the crazier it gets, the better off we are. Before, when I was part of the American public, I was hoping for a reasonable and quick solution to the impeachment process. Now, I'm hoping for partisan bedlam and chaos. It's really what serves me best.

Jon Stewart

Cheer, Chaos, Kind

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Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding.

Erika M. Anderson

People, Trying, Obscurity

Source: thequietus.com

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I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

Bill Burr

Documentaries, Albums, Band

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The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

Lindsey Graham

Fossils, Energy, Alternatives

"McCain Collects Alaskan Stories of Global Warming", www.foxnews.com. August 18, 2005.

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