Better Than Other Quotes

#1. There never was an overseer on the whole plantation. The oldest colored man always looked after the niggers. We niggers lived better than the niggers on the other plantations.

Norman R. Yetman

#2. I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

Melissa Leo

#3. A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

Sabine Lisicki

#4. If Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed
were to bump into each other along the road
and go have a cup of tea or whatever,
I think we all know
they would treat one another far different and far better
than a lot of their followers would.

Brian D. McLaren

#5. I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

Macaulay Culkin

#6. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

Theodore Bikel

#7. In a touch Buckland would have appreciated, this multipronged dispersal from Africa is sometimes called the Weak Garden of Eden theory. But this tale is actually better than the biblical version; we didn't lose Eden but learned to make other Edens across the world.

Sam Kean

#8. Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#9. There is no problem anywhere on the earth which cannot be solved better under Liberty than under any other system.

John Longenecker

#10. Smartass Disciple: Master, why should people love each other ?
Master of Stupidity: Well, orgasm is felt better than kill each other.

Toba Beta

#11. It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#12. Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

Cal Thomas

#13. We may reject someone because we think we are better than them, or we may reject someone because we are angry at them. The difference between healthy boundaries and rejection is the condition of our heart and why we are placing space between us and the other person.

Heather Bixler

#14. When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other.

Will Forte

#15. I love being gay. I love gay people. I think we're better than other people. I really do. I think we're smarter and more talented and more aware. I do, I totally do. I really do think all of these things. And I try very hard to remember all this.

Larry Kramer

#16. Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Carl Sagan

#17. There are lots of other things that affect state growth besides state taxes. However, the reason I look at taxes is because these are policy variables that can be changed by state governments in order to get better results than they otherwise had.

Arthur Laffer

#18. Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions ...

Pliny The Elder

#19. 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

#20. Rejecting people for who and what they are will not make you a better, more 'righteous' or more 'moral' person - than the other person, or even in your own right - in fact, if that's why you're doing it, it is far more likely to do the opposite.

Christina Engela

#21. It wasn't logical, but the better you knew someone, the more blurry they became. The accumulation of facts made them disappear. It was more interesting wondering if someone did or didn't like country music than knowing one way or the other.

Liane Moriarty

#22. The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

Alphonso Jackson

#23. I think there's two kinds of love. One kind of love burns so hot that it burns out before you get a chance to enjoy it. The other love is one that lifts you and makes you better than you were before.

Tara Brown

#24. It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

#25. Have you ever actually listened to golfers talking to each other? "Looked good starting out ... " "Better direction than last time ... " "Who's away? ... " It sounds like visitors' day at a home for the criminally insane.

Peter Andrews

#26. [ ... ] friendship creates a whole new economy. When people realize there's no agenda other than friendship and better understanding, it changes things.

Bob Goff

#27. What other stuff do they teach you at federal agent school? I ask. It shouldn't bother me that he's fitting in so well. So what if he's faking it? Good for him. I guess what bothers me is him faking it better than I am.

Holly Black

#28. When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes a lot of sense to cause a million in damage with just $100 of investment. That's a better return than any other form of activism I've been involved in.

Rod Coronado

#29. Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.

Tracy Thompson

#30. Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

Timothy Radcliffe

#31. Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

Roone Arledge

#32. Show me that horizon, promise me a world better than this on the other side of the sun.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#33. [democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.

Peggy Noonan

#34. You're probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone's better at math than I am, but it's okay, I'm fine with it. See, I excel at other, more important things - guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few.

Jennifer Niven

#35. The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

Antony Flew

#36. Although you will often receive something other than what you prayed for, I have never known it to be worse - it has always been better than expected.

Squire Rushnell

#37. [T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.

H.L. Mencken

#38. You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.

John Wooden

#39. [While writing history], I've kept the most interesting company imaginable with people long gone. Some I've come to know better than many I know in real life, since in real life we don't get to read other people's mail.

David McCullough

#40. I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

David Prowse

#41. You have lived on broken hearts all your life," said Caspian, "and if you are beggared, it is better to be a beggar than a slave. But where is my other friend?

C.S. Lewis

#42. Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

Paulo Coelho

#43. Some days are better than other days
A good day is getting 10 royalties and 10 great reviews

Ray Mathews

#44. Really I don't know anything other than Jersey. I like the dirtiness of it. Now I'm getting to see the world, and it's great, but it's not better than Jersey.

Frank Iero

#45. Only because I prefer a positive to a negative. In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

George Orwell

#46. In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.

Cynthia Rylant

#47. It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's mission is to convert; a theological philosopher's mission is to build an understanding of a position.

Criss Jami

#48. A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions than do the rather weak political and cultural arguments of the secularists.

David Novak

#49. There are a lot of other people out there that some of us wish had run for President, but they didn't. I think Mitt Romney would be a fine President, and he'd be way better than the guy who's there right now.

Marco Rubio

#50. I want to see my party achieve victory based on what we have to offer this country and our ability to offer it with integrity. I don't want to see us achieve victory based on the fact that we are better at rigging the game than other people.

Alan Keyes

#51. Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.

Imelda May

#52. Dad gave me two pieces of advice. One was, "No matter how good you think you are, there are people better than you." But he was an optimist too; his other advice: "Never worry about rejection. Every day is a new beginning."

John Ritter

#53. I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you'd find a lot better record than you would of anybody else in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it.

Ernie Harwell

#54. I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

Thomas Haden Church

#55. It's not a bad idea." "It's a terrible idea," Oi said. "It just has the advantage of being better than the other option.

John Scalzi

#56. Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#57. It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.

Hannah Hurnard

#58. There were more fights, more arguments, more yelling in the night, more long absences. Until it seemed as if anything would be better than living with these people who hated each other.

Esmeralda Santiago

#59. Two heads are definitely better than one and by brainstorming as a team and sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge.

Richard Branson

#60. If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.

Lara Stone

#61. I put away that stuffed God I had all stitched up with my human understandings and fears. God is less formulaic and quantifiable as he once used to be, but experiencing the reality of his love is infinitely better than dragging that other one around.

Jim Palmer

#62. It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense
ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

Tamora Pierce

#63. Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.

Mahatma Gandhi

#64. To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Bill Nye

#65. Peacefully ensconced in a small house on the outskirts of somewhere or other, enjoying a tranquillity in which I won't write the works I don't write now, and to keep on not writing them I'll come up with even better excuses than the ones I use today to elude myself.

Fernando Pessoa

#66. I reckon it is up to us to treat each other better than the Lord do, and teach Him a lesson.

G.B. Edwards

#67. It is better to be a self-made man,
filled up according to God's original pattern,
than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

J.G. Holland

#68. It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Plutarch

#69. My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's cheap and much better for the environment, and you don't have to lug all that stuff around.

Emily Deschanel

#70. It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.

Sydney Thompson Dobell

#71. It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary. I was 21, feisty, and ready to fight. And I remember thinking immediately, 'Here is a woman who doesn't mess around.' Steel in her spine, Hillary didn't want to talk about anything other than how to make children's lives better.

Donna Brazile

#72. The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

David Herbert Donald

#73. High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.

Samuel Johnson

#74. But Robert was so much better than any of the other men Dougless had dated that she forgave him his little quirks - most

Jude Deveraux

#75. From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#76. The conversation of the mind was truer than any language, and they knew each other better than they ever could have by use of mere sight and touch.

Orson Scott Card

#77. They went on working for the promise of a pension and their "health benefits," which was ironic in that almost any other job would benefit their health better than any doctor's pills.

James Baldwin

#78. In most marriages, one of the couple is more in love than the other, and it's best if it's the man. The marriage will have a better chance of going the whole way.

Mary Higgins Clark

#79. I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

Lord Byron

#80. We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

Christopher Dodd

#81. If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more thrilling than doing it yourself.

Kathleen Hanna

#82. Shit," she muttered. She'd heard the word from her guard many times, but only now did she understand the real use of profanity. That one word said exactly what she was feeling, said it better than a hundred other words could have done.

Erika Johansen

#83. In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.

Eddie Trunk

#84. You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.

Stephen Gaskin

#85. But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Baden Powell

#86. The single word that counted on Wednesday was the one that came from the muzzle of a gun, addressed to somebody on their knees. Better to choose our hour than to accept this. We know each other. We've known each other from the time of Crocodilopolis. [Letter unsent]

John Berger

#87. There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.

John Reid

#88. What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear the moral reason is for the war in which one side looks better than the other, by the time the war ends both sides have been engaged in evil.

Howard Zinn

#89. He understands evil better than any other person I've ever known. We disagree in how to eliminate it, but we do not disagree that it exists.

Nalini Singh

#90. I think we explored the further reaches of 'for better or for worse' than some other married couples.

Mary Archer

#91. I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

Maria Sharapova

#92. It totally was elitist,' Julia says. 'So? There's nothing wrong with elitist. Some stuff is better than other stuff; pretending it's not doesn't make you open-minded, it just makes you a dick.

Tana French

#93. A group called Draft Biden 2016 has started selling bumper stickers that say 'I'm ridin' with Biden.' It's a lot better than the other one that women around the White House have started using - 'I'm hidin' from Biden.'

Jimmy Fallon

#94. There's a lotta countries that do very well at dropping bombs. There are other things that Canada actually does better than most other countries. And one of them is training people on the ground.

Justin Trudeau

#95. I had already seen the end of fall come through boyhood, youth and young manhood, and in one place you could write about it better than in another. That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.

Ernest Hemingway,

#96. Rewards for improved performance work better than punishment of mistakes. This proposition is supported by much evidence from research on pigeons, rats, humans, and other animals.

Daniel Kahneman

#97. I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

George Eliot

#98. Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you've got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the hell better than the other, you do not have to spend much time with the other. And that's the way we filter out buying opportunities.

Charlie Munger

#99. None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself." page 270 Pavilion of Women

Pearl S. Buck

#100. If you know yourself and don't have a belief that other people are better than you, then you simply can't feel jealous or threatened.

Roberto Hogue