Something Better Quotes

When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.

In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.

The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

Never want to say anything so strongly that you give up the option of finding something better. If you have to say it, you will.

The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced and work on becoming the church we dream of.

If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

You are always being prepared for something better or protected from something worse.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.

Miracles do occur, and it's never too late to turn your life around and reach for something better.

Sometimes something good has to be subtracted from our lives before something better can take its place.

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

What makes something better is connection.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.

Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.

I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by something better, instead of something worse, and it's not clear which way it will go.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

Someone is always fighting for something, and they're always fighting for something better. Now, how that gets done is the true question.

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

When somebody does something which everybody really wants to do, then it makes everyone else try a little bit harder and strive for something better, and it's good.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.

If a bush is too big, don't ask "should I?" Go ahead and cut it. If it lives, great. If it dies, replace it with something better suited!

Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first place.

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.

Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

My mantra is, 'This or something better.'

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat.

I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.

I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.

I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.