Better Than You Quotes - Page 9

• Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you.

  Donald Glover

  Mad, Hustle, Doing You

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• The very best gift... is that anyone can experience those unexpected twinkles of joy that make a magical moment. At these moments, you feel true, deep joy because of a great new insight, a beautiful prospect, or a glimpse into the radiance of another soul. They are the magic moments when life seems better than you ever realized.

  Richard M. Eyre

  Beautiful, Photography, Magic Moments

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• I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

  Linus Pauling

  Errors, Golden, Twenties

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• The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.

  Ina Garten

  Children, Flavor, Want

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Good Housekeeping Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation's heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Dream, Country, Heart

  "O'Connell Correspondence, Vol IV". Book by Daniel O'Connell, Letter to Bishop Doyle (N. 1860), 1831.

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• If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you have to tell your children that ordinary children tend to say things like 'I can run faster than you; I can draw better than you; I know things you don't know'. You have to tell them what normal children are like. Normal children are messed up and you have to tell them about that. But if you instruct your child in high correlation with the physical world, they won't be able to relate with normal children. Normal means mixed up as I use the word.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Children, Mean

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• Growing up, all I saw was my parents trying to be the best people they could be, and people coming to them for wisdom, coming to them for guidance, and them not putting themselves on a pedestal, but literally being face-to-face with these people and saying, "I'm no better than you, but the fact that you're coming to me to reach some sort of enlightenment or to shine a light on something, that makes me feel love and gratitude for you." They always give back what people give to them. And sometimes they keep giving and giving and giving.

  Willow Smith

  Gratitude, Growing Up, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God.

  Mary J. Blige

  Thrones, Causes, I Can

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• As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.

  Ariel Pink

  Song, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

  Paul Auster

  Men, Toasters, World

  Paul Auster (2010). “Timbuktu: A Novel”, p.59, Macmillan

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• There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Race, Dying, Answers

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• Because you are the one. You are better than me in some things, and I am better than you in others...I don’t mind being a bit like you. I hope you don’t mind being a bit like me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mind, Like You, Like Me

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• As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.

  Harper Lee

  Inspiring, Growing Up, Eye

  "Harper Lee Gets a Request for a Photo; Offers Important Life Advice Instead (2006)". www.openculture.com. July 27, 2015.

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• I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?

  Sarah Dessen

  Philosophy, Swim, Sweatshirts

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.142, Penguin

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• Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Cake, Cooking

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Blood, People

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.481, Simon and Schuster

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• I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for my man’s gleam A better fate than for the common nights Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth In your eyes who reveal to us Our endless solitude Are no longer what they thought themselves to be You cannot be known Better than I know you.

  Paul Eluard

  Sleep, Eye, Fate

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• And you don't care that I'm your brother," he said. "I know how you felt about Jace, even when you thought he was your brother. You can't lie to me." "Jace is better than you." "No one's better than me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Lying, Care

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

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• Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

  Jodi Picoult

  Teenager, Thinking, Different

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Sorrow, Progress

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Garden of Eden”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Trying, Knows, Associates

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• The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.

  Rick Riordan

  Bigs, Reminders, Big Heads

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• You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

  Sidney Poitier

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• ...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Realizing

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

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• This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was the way he wanted to go, unafraid and on his feet. Like a warrior. The way Shadowhunters did. His death song would always be this-jokes and snideness and pretend arrogance, and that look in his eyes that said 'I'm better than you'. Simon just hadn't realized it before.

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Eye, Warrior

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader”, p.36, BenBella Books, Inc.

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