Quotes for tag "better"

"While you were sleeping, I was listening to the radio and wondering what you were dreaming when it came to mind that I didn't care. I thought, hell, if it's over, I had better end it quick or I could lose my nerve. Are you listening? Can you hear me?"

~~from *Rest stop*, Matchbox 20

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"The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on cross-breeding, grows better for being stepped on."

~~Ursula K. Le Guin

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"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. "

~~John Heisman

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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please."

~~P. J. O'Rourke

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"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back at you."

~~Freidrich Nietzsche

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"You'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It's unpleasently like being drunk."
"What's so unpleasent about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water."

~~Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, from Douglas Adam's *HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy*

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"The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'"

~~Roy Blount Jr.

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"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better."

~~anon

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"Prudence may be the better part of valor, but valor is rarely the better part of pissing someone off."

~~Steve McReynolds

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

~~Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"

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"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

~~Kahlil Gibrani

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"Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing."

~~Dick Brandon

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"The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost."

~~William Carlos Williams

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