Better Quotes

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead.

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there.

And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.

The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

There are two great unknown forces today, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman.

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.