Fared Better Quotes

#1. But he had handled enough divorces to understand that in rough circumstances companions sometimes fared better than lovers. Rocco

Laurie Fabiano

#2. Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard.

Connie Britton

#3. Would I have fared better if I had stood my ground and stared down my pursuers? Could so-called self-preservation sometimes backfire and become the very cause of pain?

David Michie

#4. Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

John Henry Newman

#5. You ever heard that bit about don't look a gift horse in the mouth?"
"I've heard it. Although the Trojans would have fared better with Athens if they had ignored that advice."
I had to look up that reference when I got back to Saul's.

Rysa Walker

#6. The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. Her stare was like a small room he couldn't get out of.

Jane Smiley

#8. In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#9. Very like leaves upon this earth are the generations of men - old leaves, cast on the ground by wind, young leaves the greening forest bears when spring comes in. So mortals pass; one generation flowers even as another dies away.

Homer

#10. [Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given away everything you could have cared about losing.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.

Kate Morton

#12. Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

Saint Basil

#13. You say you know everything. Okay, you mind telling me what kinda headcase are you?

Shreya Gupta

#14. If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

George Q. Cannon

#15. Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school
its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

Thomas B. Macaulay