Better Place Quotes - Page 4

• It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Kindness, People

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Dog, Keys, Bars

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Tell Me Lies”, p.353, Macmillan

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• I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

  Rosa Parks

  Growing Up, Believe, People

  "The Meaning of Life: Reflections in Words and Pictures on Why We Are Here". Book by David Friend, 1991.

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• Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Powerful, Thinking, People

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• The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

  Tom Clancy

  World, Do The Best, Presses

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.218, Penguin

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• I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)

  Taylor Swift

  Would Be, World, Ifs

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• You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.

  Max Lucado

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Needs

  Max Lucado (2009). “Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition”, p.51, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Humanity, Promise

  "Unemployment". Winston Churchill's speech at Kinnaird Hall in Dundee, Scotland (October 10, 1908), as quoted in Winston Churchill "Liberalism and the Social Problem" (p. 87), 1909.

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• He moved toward her and cupped her face in his hands. "You are so beautiful that sometimes it hurts just to look at you. Your eyes are a thousand shades of brown and gold with hints of blue and green." He touched her cheekbones with thumbs. "Your freckles are like the girl-next-door fantasy brought to life. Your mouth is sexy and soft and when you smile, the world seems like a better place. Swear you'll never change anything. Swear it.

  Susan Mallery

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

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• Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Mean, Lunch, Missing

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.66, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Mind, World

  Howard Gardner (2006). “The Development and Education of the Mind: The Selected Works of Howard Gardner”, p.166, Routledge

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• Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one.

  Simone Elkeles

  Religious, Quests, Earth

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, Simon and Schuster

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• The Gamma paused. “You have a crazed werewolf in your wine cellar?” “You can think of a better place to stash him?” “What about the wine?

  Gail Carriger

  Wine, Thinking, Werewolf

  Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.136, Hachette UK

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• I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

  Pete Doherty

  Mean, Thinking, Intellectual

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• It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.

  Veronica Roth

  Liars, Parent, Matter

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.35, HarperCollins UK

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• All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trying, Shooting, World

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Fifth Elephant: (Discworld Novel 24)”, p.452, Random House

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

  Winston Churchill

  Giving, Gone, Noble

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.90, Da Capo Press

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• But my hands are in the right place." "Heart," I corrected. "Your heart's in the right place." "Yeah, but my hands are in an even better place." And so they were.

  Rachel Vincent

  Heart, Hands, Yeah

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.292, Harlequin

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• People never really died. They only went on to a better place, to wait a while for their loved ones to join them. And then once more they went back to the world, in the same way they had arrived the first time around.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  People, Waiting, World

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• If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place." -- Marmee, Little Women

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Kindness, Lying

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• I will make this world a better place, whether they like it or not. That’s the fun of being Queen.

  Amanda Hocking

  Queens, Fun, World

  Amanda Hocking (2012). “Ascend”, p.181, Pan Macmillan

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• We don’t do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are.

  Derek Landy

  Satisfaction, Credit, World

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• In the whole world, there was no better place than being wrapped in him.

  Ilona Andrews

  World, Whole, Whole World

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

  Carl Hoppe

  Life, Strength, Integrity

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