Top 100 Better Or Worse Quotes
#1. The truth is that not story or life lived goes on without the experiences changing you. For better or worse, life does that. The events that take place make you who you are. Sometimes they take more than you have to give.
Joann Buchanan
#2. Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.
Bucky Sinister
#3. Educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve - as Coach Graham taught me - is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse?
Randy Pausch
#4. The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
Jason Alexander
#5. For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.
Brian Kernighan
#6. Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I'm grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated.
Kim Gordon
#7. For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.
William Ralph Inge
#8. He explained that often times it's the love of something- like money, material, possessions, or power-and the fear of losing them, that command people to act. That love and fear are really the only two things that can forever alter a person, whether for the better or worse.
J. Saman
#9. Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
Cory Booker
#10. The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.
Katherine Paterson
#11. I have this theory that there are two kinds of people in the world, people who stop at a traffic accident and those that just drive by. If I see a traffic accident, I am going to stop. I do notice. I don't think that makes me a good or bad person, or anybody else better or worse.
Marlo Thomas
#12. We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
Bernard Baruch
#13. In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.
Ahmed Kathrada
#14. Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.
Studs Terkel
#15. I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.
Michael Bloomberg
#16. Destiny is not a mystery. For better or worse, your destiny is the result of your daily decisions and defining decisions.
Mark Batterson
#17. When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.
Chuck Klosterman
#18. I couldn't care less who I'm paired with. There's nobody I've ever played better or worse with, thank goodness. You don't want any factor to be outside your control. What if Arnie's Army had bothered me? What id I'd said, "Oh geez, I'm paired with Palmer," I'd never had beaten him.
Jack Nicklaus
#19. It is a supremacist assumption that one culture can be compared as better or worse than another.
Stefan Szczelkun
#20. Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.
Chuck Norris
#21. As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.
John Dewey
#22. The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.
William Ernest Hocking
#23. In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.
Joanna Scott
#24. For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.
Alison Gopnik
#25. Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation - speaking and listening - communication deepens into compassion and creates community.
Sam Keen
#26. Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.
William J.H. Boetcker
#27. I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
LeRoy Neiman
#28. I saw 'Animal House' in the theater the night before I left for college. And for better or worse, it made an impression. Within a week, I was in a fraternity myself.
Neil Flynn
#30. Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.
Jeffrey Deitch
#31. There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.
Wendell Berry
#32. Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
Pindar
#33. I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly or good sometimes - can help anybody get any better or worse at it.
Peter Orner
#34. I remember where I come from. I just see myself as someone who gets up and does what she loves every day - I'm not better or worse than anybody.
Kate DeAraugo
#35. I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.
Maryon Pearson
#36. A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.
Warren G. Bennis
#37. Entered my life and have been with me, for better or worse, ever since. A carefree life became a careful one, to some extent. I felt this was the end of youth and that middle age was now upon me.
Oliver Sacks
#38. Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.
Max Lerner
#39. For better or worse, we'd ended those nights together. Not last night, and when he left me alone, we'd crossed a line. He'd breached some new invisible boundary I'd never known was there.
Meredith Wild
#40. For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.
Christine Quinn
#41. I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
Diane Arbus
#42. Men are always trying to make the world better or worse while most women are content just to live in it.
Howard W. Koch
#43. For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!
Michael Musto
#44. You've got to just follow your heart and do your best work. For better or worse, I have followed my heart. There is no doubt in my mind or heart that everything I've done is exactly what I intended to do.
Dan Fogelberg
#45. Still reeling from the touch of her husband's lips on her, Trudy didn't know whether to feel relief or dread that she'd married Seth Flanagan for better or worse. But from the fireworks of excitement swirling in her middle, she figured on both.
Debra Holland
#46. If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.
Tim Howard
#47. Life a series of paths. To helping people. To hurting people. To leaving certain places and certain people behind. For better or worse.
Aaron Starmer
#48. It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse.
Paulo Coelho
#50. For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
Joey Ramone
#51. Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.
Jeff Bezos
#52. I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.
Johnny Ramone
#53. Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.
Brenda Ueland
#54. I would not ask for things to be different, because it is not in my power to know if that would be better or worse than what I have today. I am not prepared to take that gamble.
Barbara "Cutie" Cooper
#55. I'm somebody who takes risks, for better or worse. Fortunately, most of them have been for the better!
Sharon Lawrence
#56. And the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
Paulo Coelho
#57. I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.
Rebecca Eaton
#58. We always for better or worse try to put on paper what's going up on screen - whether we're directing it or not. It's really just an extension of that habit which is trying to tell the reader what the movie will look like. Ultimately that is the job of a screenwriter to a certain extent.
John Francis Daley
#59. I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.
Sylvia Day
#60. It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game
John Carmack
#61. I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.
Peter Mandelson
#62. I've learned that just because Noah doesn't take everything seriously doesn't mean he doesn't take anything seriously. His priorities and strategies are different from mine, not necessarily better or worse.
Kendall Ryan
#63. For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
John Le Carre
#64. For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.
Andrew Luck
#65. From what I've seen, love isn't about mutual respect. It's more concerns with control than sacrifice. And I wonder whether it's better or worse when love finally walks away.
Ellen Hopkins
#66. Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.
Cameron Russell
#67. The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
Harold Bloom
#68. Your path is your path, for better or worse. It is what it is. You don't know what's going to happen in life. You've got right now and that's it. Can't change the past, can't predict the future.
Sabrina Paige
#69. Nothing isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just ... nothing,
Arya
#70. For better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.
Vladimir Nabokov
#71. He has a need for attention, to have attention focused on him - for better or worse. The worst punishment I can give him is to ignore him, which I've done, fairly successfully,
Nora Roberts
#72. I tell my students all the time is, for better or worse, no publisher is going to come wrench your story out of your hands before you're ready to let it go. You will have time to take stuff out. You don't have to show it to anybody. That's what I did.
Melissa Febos
#73. When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'
Caitlin Moran
#74. You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant
Mark Andrus
#75. An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for astrict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#76. You make a difference for every single person you come into contact with at work. Is that difference for the better or worse?
Alexander Kjerulf
#77. There is no better or worse, inferior or superior. It's figuring out where you're meant to be and then getting there. This is true in every aspect of your life. If you fight to stay somewhere you don't belong, it will never be good and never get better.
Donna Augustine
#78. No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.
Kim Jong Il
#79. Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
Aaron Copland
#80. Celebrate every relationship you've ever had. For better or worse, your relationships are your best teachers.
Christiane Northrup
#81. I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.
Luke Wilson
#82. The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#83. It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.
Donal Henahan
#84. No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies; Only silent equality.
Dejan Stojanovic
#85. Understand that for better or worse, you create your own life.
Stephen Richards
#86. Those yellow eyes had seen the thing Ruby hid, even from herself. And when two people see a thing, for better or worse, it becomes real.
Cynthia Bond
#87. Words have power, for better or worse.
Like the smell of fresh rain on cut grass,
Or the stench of a decaying corpse,
Like the soft comfort of a warm blanket on your shoulders,
Or the agony of a dagger splitting your chest in two.
Use them wisely.
David Estes
#88. He would always make her feel too big and too gruff and too shocking; she would forever be trying to watch her words when she was with him. He was not the kind of person who liked her true self, for better or worse.
Anne Tyler
#89. Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse. I suppose it depends on which you disapprove of more, malice or stupidity.
K.J. Parker
#90. I think we draw people into our lives ... It's as though we broadcast our deepest needs ... For better or worse, we attract our teachers, our allies, and sometimes even our own nightmares.
Lisa Unger
#91. So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.
Danny McBride
#92. For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.
Diane Ackerman
#93. We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.
Peter Gavin Hall
#94. I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.
James Patterson
#96. We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.
Robert Wyatt
#97. For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.
Bernie Sanders
#98. I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
Kate Christensen
#99. For better or worse we're in an age of disbelief," Rico said, "An age of science and a need for proof.
Bryan Islip
#100. There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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