Top 29 Bettered Quotes
#1. War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can't be bettered learned in civilian life. You are exposed to horrors you would sooner forget.
Robert Graff
#2. Already I've bettered my result from Snapper. It's a long year; plenty of the top guys will hopefully have one early exit, and let's just hope Snapper was mine.
Jordy Smith
#3. Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.
Deepak Chopra
#4. Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.
Bella Abzug
#5. As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst.
William Jenkyn
#7. In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.
Albert Camus
#8. The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John Ruskin
#9. Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven
Is Love's location. No dogmatic creed,
No austere faith based on ignoble fear
Can lead thee into realms of joy and peace.
Unless the humblest creatures on the earth
Are bettered by thy loving sympathy
Think not to find a Paradise beyond.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#10. The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.
Kate Bush
#11. The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato
#12. Yet, if the world were bettered by
My death or story left untold,
I would condemn myself to die
For misdemeanours manifold:
I bring no harm to young or old
Alive or dead, in either case:
A man so needy never rolled
A mountain from its resting place.
Francois Villon
#13. The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.
Umberto Eco
#14. I suppose my biggest frustration is that we as white people come into a culture and demand that the natives do things our way. I want to see their lives bettered as much as anyone, but who says we have somehow arrived at the perfect way to live? Especially for specific areas of the world?
Tracie Peterson
#15. Whilst the ships stayed, our allowance was somewhat bettered, by a daily proportion of biscuit, which the sailors would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us for money, sassafras, furs, or love.
John Smith
#16. Perhaps it was nothing very dreadful after all. I think the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things,' said Anne with one of those flashes of insight which experience could not have bettered.
L.M. Montgomery
#17. Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#18. Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to be bettered.
Alexander McCall Smith
#19. Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.
Jimmy Fallon
#20. Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.
F.F. Bruce
#21. The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.
Frederick Lenz
#22. I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.
David Ginola
#23. Everyone around them seem oblivious to their own brand of intimacy.
Michael Banebrook
#24. She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them You are not enough. For Pari, the children and Eric have always been enough. They always will be.
Khaled Hosseini
#25. Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.
Mason Cooley
#26. Life's choices are wild and free, but sustaining and elevating, or destructive and debilitating. It's up to us to choose.
Mark Donnelly
#27. So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?
Robin Quivers
#28. Is that all you've got? A few tricks and quick feet? That's no way to enforce your bold tongue!
T.A. Miles
#29. Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you armpit and go to sleep. They like big fat legs too. That I know.
Kathryn Stockett
