Top 100 Better Than That Quotes
#1. Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?
Neal Shusterman
#2. A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
Imran Khan
#3. No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness.
Haruki Murakami
#4. I took a step back, shaking my head, wishing I could place a gnarly black hex on him. My daddy taught me better than that.
Mary Buckham
#5. If you didn't have a real good imagination you'd probably think those noises were the sounds of some kid blowing a horn for the first time, but I knew better than that. I could tell those were the squeaks and squawks of one door closing and another one opening.
Christopher Paul Curtis
#6. You are not your grade; you are better than that. Grades are indicators of time management and a rate of success.
Anonymous
#7. You know," he says, peeking inside the bag. "It's okay. Because ham and cheese is my absolute favorite ... and an apple? It's like, the lunch of champions."
I stifle another yawn. "It doesn't get much better than that, right?"
"Only if you were eating with me," he says.
Katie Klein
#8. to be in Paris when you're young and free - well, there's not much on earth better than that.
Terry Hayes
#9. You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me is
your absence, Alaric
Alyssa Day
#10. If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?
Seth Godin
#11. I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.
Christopher Lee
#12. Someone said it better than that; be true unto yourself. Self, right? No-one else. If everyone was true unto his or her self there might even be a chance of something better for us all.
Bryan Islip
#13. I'd gone from living alone in New York as a lowly shoe clerk to becoming a shieldmaiden with a family to come home to. It didn't get much better than that.
Amanda Carlson
#14. And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.
Eva Ibbotson
#15. And i know better, not to be friends with boys with girlfriends, oh I know better than that, i know better. you'll play the victim, and i'll be the bad guy, but i know better than that, no i know better.
Meiko
#16. I have a long history of being told I have no rhythm, and of people saying 'I've heard chickens sing better than that'.
Mary Margaret O'Hara
#17. FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT ...
Terry Pratchett
#18. I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
George Brett
#19. Sex keeps me fit and healthy. What can be better than that? It's not about crazy diets or gym workouts.
Kelly Brook
#20. Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!
Steve Maraboli
#21. Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.
Keith Ablow
#22. 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
#23. To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.
Pope Leo XIII
#24. The rush I got from crime was better than that of glue, drink or hash. I loved playing cat and mouse with the local coppers. He Who Dares Wins, the SAS motto, was very applicable to my life then.
Stephen Richards
#25. You cant build on a mass grave. Human beings are better than that - we have to be better than that - I do believe, don't you?" Charlie McGuire, Fatherland
Robert Harris
#26. People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.
Bob Newhart
#27. Helping raise money for kids - there's nothing better than that.
Tim Tebow
#28. We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#29. I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.
Philip Pullman
#30. He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
Sherman Alexie
#31. The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is because we are, in ways, powerful. But that does not make the race of humans (funanga) better than that of the dog or equine.
Isobelle Carmody
#32. Sometimes people - especially people over 40 - underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they're not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over 40, "I don't want your best. I want better than that. I want better than what you perceive your best is."
Jack LaLanne
#33. I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.
Barbara Kingsolver
#34. I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
Jorge Luis Borges
#35. I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know ... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
Jack Whitehall
#36. I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.
Condoleezza Rice
#37. If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
Buddy Rich
#38. We are all victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, 'I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and i'm going to try to make myself a life worth living.
Howard Dully
#39. When a fan comes up to you and says I love your music, there's nothing better than that.
Aaliyah
#40. Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.
Eve Ensler
#41. That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
Aristotle.
#42. Anytime you can already have somebody in a pinning position where they can't kick out, what better than that for a brilliant man.
William Regal
#43. One life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests.
Marie Bashkirtseff
#44. He despised violence. He believed he was smarter than that, better than that. A civilized man. After seeing Martin Pink in the flesh again - he knew just how thin the veneer of civilization was.
Josh Lanyon
#45. And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.
Buddy Rich
#46. You're going to have to do better than that if you want to get into my metaphysical pants.
Allison Pang
#47. It was a work of art. It was better than that. It was a work of craft.
Terry Pratchett
#48. Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?
Lori Wilde
#49. The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
Larry Page
#50. I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT ... Goodbye.
Steve Maraboli
#51. We're married. I will protect you. I will die for you. Better than that. I will live for you.
Mary Connealy
#53. The longer you chase the wrong person, the further you travel in the wrong direction. You're better than that.
Steve Maraboli
#54. It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
Robin Wright
#55. Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a hundred?" When she looked blank, he sighed. "What took it down, anime, or the Jeopardy reference?
Rachel Caine
#56. I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.
Warren Buffett
#57. 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.
Chuck Palahniuk
#58. Orion smiled and leaned back against the wall, letting his gaze drift down in thought. Helen stared at him for a few moments, just enjoying his company and the fact that he was there with her. No. Better than that. He was there for her.
Josephine Angelini
#59. No matter what happens throughout your day ... staying positive is always better than being negative. For It's always far better to believe things will change for the better than ... that it won't.
Timothy Pina
#60. A broken heart and God's will done would be better than that God's will should be avoided and her own satisfied.
Robert Hugh Benson
#61. I might not win a Grammy or get another Stellar Award but I'll get my rewards from the Lord. There's nothing better than that.
Trip Lee
#62. Scoring three away from home - you can't do better than that.
Ray Stubbs
#63. You call that begging? Oh, Kitten, you can do better than that ...
Jeaniene Frost
#64. Get away from me, you wicked treat devil."
She laughs. "Wicked treat devil? Wow. You can do better than that."
"Evil dessert demon?"
"Still lame."
"Chocolate temptress of salty death."
"Now you're just reaching.
Chelsea Fine
#65. It was a protein rush to the cortex, a clean, three-ingredient high, eaten with the hands. Could anything be better than that? As
Anthony Bourdain
#66. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!
Sylvester Stallone
#67. EAMES: Try this... "MY FATHER ACCEPTS THAT I WANT TO CREATE FOR MYSELF, NOT FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS."
COBB: That might work.
ARTHUR: Might? We'll have to do better than that.
EAMES: Thanks for the contribution, Arthur.
ARTHUR: Forgive me for wanting a little specificity, Eames.
Christopher J. Nolan
#68. Before the cook arrived when she stood in a space no wider than a bench is long, back behind and to the left of the milk cans. Working dough. Working, working dough. Nothing better than that to start the day's serious work of beating back the past.
Toni Morrison
#69. When you live in shackles to other people's opinions and moods and judgments, it is the equivalent of becoming a human streamer. And you're better than that. You're meant to be in the driver's seat of your life, not running alongside the car, trying to catch up!
Mandy Hale
#70. Bands
enough with the crayon face-paint
you're better than that.
Ted Leo
#71. Leena and Kelly Davidson have always lived a comfortable life. Neither girl has ever held a job nor did they intend to get one. All they wanted was to live off their parents' money for their rest of their lives. What could be better than that?
Valenciya Lyons
#72. Guys, we spend our whole lives trying to get pussy, so when pussy comes to us, it's like, "Whoa, this is amazing!" At 27, I thought nothing could be better than that, but at 35, I've come to understand the darker side of it.
Tucker Max
#73. Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about because you know better than that.
Tupac Shakur
#74. There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,' but rather the one who will toss the manuscript down in disgust, with 'You know better than that! It's rotten! Do it all over again!'
Henry Sydnor Harrison
#76. Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.
Michael Jensen
#77. I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?
Jim Edmonds
#78. Please don't mix Marvel and DC references. You're better than that, he said, shaking his head disdainfully.
Molly Harper
#79. Auden? Does he rhyme? I only like poetry that rhymes. All
the best poets write in rhyme."
"Really?"
"Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare. You can't do better than that.
Shiela Jane
#80. Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.
John Sterling
#81. Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
Plato
#82. Right away he'd cuss me out, tell me I was a worthless piece of shit. But I never got pissed at David. In my mind, I thought, I'm better than that and I'll show you. As it happens,
Chris Kyle
#83. You'll have to do better than that measly steel blade to make a dent in me.
Amy Plum
#84. A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.
Anatoli Boukreev
#85. Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that.
Teddy Sheringham
#86. The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.
Mary MacLane
#87. I don't watch television. I know better than that.
Tom Baker
#88. Playing with Phil Mickelson, it doesn't get any better than that.
Peter Uihlein
#89. I point at a window to my left, and it explodes. Particles of glass rain over us. 'You'll have to do better than that,' I say.
Veronica Roth
#90. Bodybuilding is a hobby. At least for me it is. I've trained since i was 12 or 13 years old. It's a hobby I just have so much fun with it. I get so much enjoyment from it. To have your job as your hobby - life don't get better than that.
Ronnie Coleman
#91. Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.
Richard Madden
#92. When life pushes you to quit something, just do it without any questions for that happens in two cases - either life has something better than that in store for you or that thing is going to harm you beyond repair soon.
Namrata
#93. I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.
Confucius
#94. The British theatre and establishment is so hard to penetrate, and there are so many talented people involved in it. So, to be counted among some of those actresses ... It doesn't get better than that.
Kelly Reilly
#95. Why can't you go back to playing princess?" "I never played princess." "Are you kidding?" he says. "Whenever Heather's mom took the two of you to the parade, you wore your fanciest dress, pretending to be the Winter Queen." "Exactly!" I say. "Queen, not princess. You raised me better than that.
Jay Asher
#96. You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.
John Kricfalusi
#97. I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
Warren Spector
#98. When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.
Warren Buffett
#99. Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
John Frusciante
#100. Everything was as it always should have been. I was in the arms of my best friend, the man I loved and the man I would spend the rest of my life with. It just didn't get any better than that.
Monica Alexander
