Feel Better Quotes - Page 7

• Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Nice, Games, Humanity

  A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• Good design allows things to operate more efficiently, smoothly, and comfortably for the user. That's the real source of advantage. Businesses have started to understand this, so good design will become the price of entry. ... Customers appreciate good design. While they can't necessarily point out what specifically makes it good, they know it feels better. There's a visceral connection. They are willing to pay for it, if you give them a great experience.

  James P Hackett

  Real, Appreciate, Giving

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• There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Nice, Two, Made Up Stories

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Which brings me to the point: In order to lose momentum, the U.S. economy has to have momentum to begin with. If it had any, I missed it. What we had was a government-prescribed course of amphetamines (to keep it up), antibiotics (to prevent infection) and antidepressants (to make it feel better). It endured regular steroid injections from both monetary and fiscal authorities. And it still has no real muscle.

  Caroline Baum

  Real, Government, Order

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• The most important force inside you for feeling better all the time is the will to get more fit.

  Jeff Galloway

  Feelings, Important, Fit

  Jeff Galloway (2008). “Running: Getting Started”, p.21, Meyer & Meyer Verlag

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• Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever.

  Ann Druyan

  Taken, Eye, Reality

  "Billions and Billions". Book by Carl Sagan, epilogue, p. 271, 1997.

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• You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.

  Jennifer Beals

  Evil, Shadow, Sides

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• I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It's my cup of tea.

  Greer Garson

  Character, Thinking, Play

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

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• I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.

  Diana Ross

  Girl, Careers, Two

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• Feeling better is not actually being better.

  James Randi

  Feelings

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• Do we want to feel better or do we want to be effective? Are we sentimentalists or are we warriors?

  Lierre Keith

  Warrior, Want, Feels

  Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.25, Seven Stories Press

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• Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

  Demi Moore

  Lying, Age, Skins

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• ...Something about, 'I love my dad, I love my dad, makes me feel better when I'm sad ... I love you to the moon and back.

  Peter Facinelli

  Dad, Love You, Moon

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• I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Names, Scientist, Cradle

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 98), 1963.

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• Smoking is similar to hitting yourself over the head with a hammer because, when you stop, you feel better

  Allan Pease

  Smoking, Hammers, Hitting

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• There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Thinking, Missing

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.150, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• How are you?" "Perfectly fine," he said. "Are your ribs broken?" "Probably not. Cracked at most. We fought very carefully." "Did this settle anything?" "It made me feel better," he said, sitting up. "Did you see me kick him in the kidneys?" "I saw.

  Ilona Andrews

  Broken, Ribs, Sitting

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• May I say that I am delighted that my favorite alpha is feeling better. Why, you'll be running recklessly into danger against overwhelming odds anytime now.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Odds, Feelings

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• The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine.

  Steven Moffat

  Lying, Thinking, Doctors

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• I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.256, Macmillan

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• As the smoke clears, I awaken, And untangle you from me. Would it make you feel better To watch me, while I bleed? All my windows still are broken, But I'm standing on my feet.

  Demi Lovato

  Feet, Broken, Watches

  Song: Skyscraper, Album: Unbroken, 2011

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• It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.

  Stephen King

  Secret, Littles, Feels

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• I am a firm believer in The Paleo Solution. I maintain a hectic schedule that starts early and finishes late. Filming a television series, maintaining my fitness, and being a mom can be harrowing some days. Since adopting a Paleo way of eating I look and feel better, and I know that I am setting a good example for my daughter.

  Eva LaRue

  Mom, Daughter, Hectic Schedule

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• I paused outside your door to see if you were awake, and you clearly were, so I came in." "You still can't just barge in." I crossed my arms over my chest. "Would you like me to go back out and knock?" Loki gestured to the doors behind him. "Would that make you feel better?

  Amanda Hocking

  Doors, Arms, Barges

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.526, Pan Macmillan

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• The monster behind the wall stirred. I'd come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of me, at least. You probably think it would be creepy to have a real monster hiding inside of you, but trust me - it's far, far worse when the monster is really just your own mind. Calling it a monster seemed to distance it a little, which made me feel better about it. Not much better, but I take what I can get.

  Dan Wells

  Wall, Real, Distance

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.88, Macmillan

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