Top 100 Better Than Anyone Quotes
#1. Her parents had gone from a couple who would be different, who would be better than anyone, who were determined to be better than most, to a couple who would be different because they were worse.
Lorrie Moore
#2. The Yankees understood what New York understood, that there was no shame in buying success, and maybe because of their lack of shame they did what they did better than anyone in the business.
Michael Lewis
#3. That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [ ... ] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. Ah, Houellebecq. I've only read him in English translations so I'm sure I'm not getting the full greatness of his work, but golly, he writes better sex scenes than anyone else alive.
Chuck Palahniuk
#5. Our world is built on adrenaline and getting away with it. Different cities different names. Its a far simpler life to lead when there is one around to tell you when you are being stupid. Believe me dear cousin I know better than anyone.
- Gabrielle
Ally Carter
#6. Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#7. I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am learning that if you let it go, you feel better for it. Don't keep it all bottled up inside; don't take it all on alone.
Luis Suarez
#8. Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
Haile Selassie
#9. He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.
Leo Tolstoy
#10. The only friend you can ever have that understands you better than anyone else is you".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#11. There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".
John Denver
#12. I need to develop a car and engineer a car in a position that feels comfortable for me, and I don't think anyone can do a better job than I can in that position. The problem for me is if I can't get the car there I do struggle more than some.
Jenson Button
#13. But the girl had spent long years being invisible. She'd already had a ghost's life, hidden from the world and from herself. Better than anyone, she knew the power of things long buried.
Leigh Bardugo
#14. I should know better than anyone
you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.
Cheryl Rainfield
#15. Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Lord Chesterfield
#16. True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.
Portia De Rossi
#17. It's called an inner voice for a reason. It's the gnawing feeling inside your stomach telling you yes or no. It's the one voice in your life that isn't tampered by other's biased opinions, scars, feelings or thoughts. Go with it, you know yourself better than anyone ever does.
Hope Alcocer
#18. I don't think I'm better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.
Anderson Silva
#19. When a spy is captured, he takes a suicide pill, believing it's better to die than be tortured. By that reasoning shouldn't those same pills be issued to anyone foolish enough to fall in love? - The Lighter Side of Death
Kyra Davis
#20. I use Facebook all the time. I'm not a believer that they're going to do everything on the Internet better than anyone else.
Dennis Crowley
#21. Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.
Wayne Dyer
#22. I don't think there's anybody better than Leonardo DiCaprio, and I've been saying that since before anyone knew who he was.
Michael Keaton
#23. Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
Donna Leon
#24. Yesterday is done. Today has just begun. I am not going let anyone's negative issues do anything to me other than inspire me to do better.
Gillian Duce
#25. He, better than anyone, understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished.
Brent Schlender
#26. He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
Aristotle.
#27. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
P. J. O'Rourke
#28. This virtual stranger knew me better than anyone else in Africa. He knew me better than I knew myself. What I was really researching was not how elephants deal with loss but how humans can't.
Jodi Picoult
#29. I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
#30. I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.
Nate Ruess
#31. His laugh always sounds like he's having a much better time than anyone else in the room, and it makes me want to join in.
Jessica Love
#32. I understand popular entertainment better than anyone. I want to have the world's No. 1 tennis player, the hottest movie, the biggest artist.
Simon Fuller
#33. But I AM saying don't chase perfection for perfection's sake, or for anyone else's sake at all. If you strive for something, make sure it's for the right reasons. And if you fail, that will be a better lesson for you than any success you'll ever have. Because you learn a lot from screwing up.
Felicia Day
#34. Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.
Ann Brashares
#35. No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.
S.A. Tawks
#36. Religion can provide a check to my tendency to think that I am the center of the universe, that I know better than anyone about God, and that God speaks most clearly through me.
James Martin
#37. Blake Riley is a better man than anyone gives him credit for. And I'm ashamed of myself. I'm so fucking ashamed for ever believing that he was just a stupid jock who was incapable of being serious.
Sarina Bowen
#38. Many of us today owe the few attractive and redeeming features of our existence to the sixties, and Che Guevara personifies that era ... better than anyone" (Castaneda 1997:410).
Richard L. Harris
#39. Everyone in life has a purpose, and nobody's purpose is better than anyone else's
Tori Kelly
#40. Anyone who is passionate about what they do will have a better chance of connecting with future generations than those who simply follow transient trends. At least their work will have a distinctive character, and this is what people respond to, I believe.
Giorgio Armani
#41. My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.
Maya Angelou
#42. Don't worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you're passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#43. We always have to choose to live our lives to the fullest. No one is better or worse than anyone else. We are different and beautiful.
Mattie Stepanek
#44. Keep your expectations high,
Not because you are better than anyone else, but because you have experienced enough pain; to realise, you won't settle anymore.
Nikki Rowe
#45. Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.
John Malkovich
#46. Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.
Michael Cunningham
#47. Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.
Fred Seibert
#48. I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
Barry Sanders
#49. You have been good for me. What more could anyone ask for? I'm a better person than I was before we got together. That's your doing.
Kent Haruf
#50. I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity ... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.
Beverly Sills
#51. You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success ... I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.
Dan Jansen
#52. I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
Asa Gray
#53. Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.
Gena Showalter
#54. It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities.
Osama Bin Laden
#55. I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
Ian Frazier
#56. Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.
Chuck Noll
#57. I know you pretty well."
"Better than anyone I think."
I smiled. Her compliment was like a gift itself, only more precious than anything that could be bought.
Kenneth Oppel
#58. I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.
Evander Holyfield
#60. I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
Sylvia Earle
#61. The choices we make in life are equally important to us, as those of others are to them. It is an arrogant attitude in the mind of those who feel superior to believe their choices are better than others. Having respect for others regardless of who they are is the greatest choice anyone can make.
Ellen J. Barrier
#62. Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
Maggie Gallagher
#63. At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
Alexander Woollcott
#64. You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you can go to a better club than the one you're at, then, regardless of what anyone says, you should go.
Alan Smith
#65. Talk with your daughters, Play with your sons. You need to be a better friend to them than anyone else. This society offers lots of evil friends. Before they make those kinds of friends, they need to find their best friend in you.
Nouman Ali Khan
#66. Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.
Rebecca Makkai
#67. Sex is primal. And it's ugly as fuckin' hell. I know that better than anyone. But with you ... with you it's all beauty. You managed to obliterate the ugly, Kat.
Anonymous
#68. Was there anything better than to be wanted? Was that all anyone really needed?
Liane Moriarty
#69. One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.
David Oyelowo
#70. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.
Jasmine Guy
#71. I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
A.J. Liebling
#72. It's so much better to have sex with someone who's always available, knows what you want and who loves you more deeply than anyone else ever can. Yourself.
Ian McDonald
#73. My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.
Wayne W. Dyer
#74. My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.
Bode Miller
#75. You are better than any storybook, you are better than anything anyone could make up.
Gillian Flynn
#76. She brings out my inner bitch better than anyone I've ever known
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#77. Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.
Louise Penny
#78. I know it's not fair to ask you to be with me when we can't even sleep in the same bed, but I'll love you better than anyone else could. I'll take care of you and make you happy. I know I can.
Sylvia Day
#80. If you don't think much of yourself, why should I, since you obviously know yourself better than anyone else?
Philip G. Zimbardo
#81. Don't care what people think about you, Only care what you think about yourself.As we knows ourselves better than anyone..
Debolina Bhawal
#82. Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song to. And I'm not saying I'm better than anyone, but I think they turned that anti-authority baby boom mentality into their own enemy. Now I identify very closely with their children.
George Carlin
#83. Your brother kills you." Fett hopped tpo his feet as lightly as any unarmoured jedi apprentice, the n added," Some things are worsse thean death. I know that better than anyone, except maybe Sintas-and Han Solo. Send your father my sympathies.
Troy Denning
#84. If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
William Feather
#85. I'm not as Catholic as I used to be. I find that I can't believe in a God who would punish anyone for the way he made them. A God who punishes is something mankind created as a way to hurt and control one another. God isn't like that. God is better than that, better than us.
Marshall Thornton
#86. Anyone who can say and do anything better than
that already done or said anytime, anywhere and considered then the
best, then it is good to state for him that he has a brilliant brain in
his head.
Anuj
#87. I can be a better me than anyone can.
Diana Ross
#88. Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others
Dominick Cruz
#89. The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.
R. K. Milholland
#90. I thought I was in a better position to get a team than anyone else in Houston.
Bob McNair
#91. I reckon that blaming people fixes nothing. You're the only person who is going to sort you out. No-one else really can - or really cares, enough. That's what Nepalis know - better than anyone. That's our Western disease. Don't take responsibility. Take on a lawyer!
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#93. Some day, I suppose it's possible for someone to be a better No Limit Hold'em player than me. I doubt it, but it could happen. But, I swear to you, I don't see how anyone could ever play gin better than me.
Stu Ungar
#94. One chair upon another is pornographic. Ten in a stack is aspirational. I made so many mistakes on purpose just to get them out of the way. One cannot convince another to love anything or anyone. Better than arguing is just pointing and saying Look at that. I've
Sarah Manguso
#95. Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree.
Max Lucado
#96. Damn Dap and damn you too, sir, I know what I'm doing." "Do you?" "Better than anyone else." "Oh, that is obvious, since nobody else has the faintest idea what you're doing.
Orson Scott Card
#97. I'd dressed up and hoped and I was so tired of doing that, so tired of dreaming and being unable to stop it despite the fact that I'd seen, maybe better than anyone here, what dreams could do to you.
Elizabeth Scott
#98. I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.
Yolanda Adams
#99. It suddenly seemed he knew me better than anyone in the world. Better than anyone ever would.
He'd seen my deepest need, buried so far I'd hardly been aware of it.
( ... ) they would remember me.
Thanks to Sam, I was Immortal
Jodi Meadows
#100. To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.
Andrew Bacevich
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