Top 100 For Better Or For Worse Quotes
#1. What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.
Vincent Van Gogh
#2. No person is ever truly their online or media persona. For better or for worse, the human condition, desires, and faults are so much more robust than pixels on a screen or words beneath a caption.
L. H. Cosway
#3. Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.
Chris Pine
#4. Remember that, lad, if you never remember anything else. We all touch each other's lives, for better or for worse. So say the things you have to say to people while you still have the chance.
Edward Bloor
#5. With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
Andrew Solomon
#6. It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.
Sarah Dessen
#7. Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money.
Paul Bremer
#8. You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
Dale Carnegie
#9. I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.
Trent Reznor
#10. To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, as long as you both shall live, including accidental or intentional immortality?
Chloe Neill
#11. Every person, I have come to believe, has a moment or a place in life when all four points of the compass converge, from when or where their life finally takes--for better or for worse--its fated course.
Peter Geye
#12. I started my career so early and developed in print for better or for worse, so I think there's a sense some of my earliest readers are kind of copilots on this voyage with me.
Adrian Tomine
#13. I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.
Whitley Strieber
#14. There is something in these moments of crisis that is really extraordinary about humanity and human beings' resilience and the way in which everyone naturally comes together. I think you see the best in people in those moments for better or for worse and you find your best self.
Carla Gugino
#15. Every day we live and every meal we eat we influence the great microbial organ inside us - for better or for worse.
Giulia Enders
#16. But at the end of it all, you're two people God has joined to journey through life together. For better or for worse. In hunting season and in health.
Melanie Shankle
#17. I believe that life always has a way of surprising you, for better or for worse," he looks at me once more, his eyes holding mine captive in its strong hold. "And that you always have a choice as to how the story ends...
Mara Joaquin
#18. Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.
Marianne Williamson
#19. Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse
either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
Samuel Smiles
#20. At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
Viktor E. Frankl
#21. We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.
Joan Didion
#22. (For better or for worse, my dad taught me that the best place to pitch a tent will always be the spot marked NO CAMPING.)
Elizabeth Gilbert
#23. And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.
Busy Philipps
#24. When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters.
Bruce Mau
#25. It seems as if from being a novelty nine-day wonder, the super-hero has become a part of American life. It's here to stay.
For better, or for worse.
Alan Moore
#26. It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is made of energy resources.
M. King Hubbert
#27. In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.
Budd Schulberg
#28. Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.
Simon Sinek
#29. All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.
Jack Kerouac
#30. For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.
Rupert Murdoch
#31. I personally don't have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.
Rufus Wainwright
#32. The actions you take will shape your future for better or for worse. Such is the power of choice.
Dan Millman
#33. This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can, he says, and I pull him to me.
Libba Bray
#34. The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.
John Dos Passos
#35. Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse ... and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.
Rick Riordan
#36. It's amazing how much power each of us has when it comes to how we make other people feel about themselves. Whether we realize it or not, we have the ability to affect and shape people, for better or for worse. I hope I never abuse my power.
Krista Doyle
#37. The man you married is yours to have and to hold for the rest of ever, even if he starts chewing tobacco or decides to pierce his hairy nipple and buy a Corvette, because you very plainly said - or at least implied - you were in it for better or for worse.
Jenna McCarthy
#38. My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.
Blake Shelton
#39. The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow For better or for worse
it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option
Tom Brokaw
#40. We all have those moments where we realize how easily our lives could be so different, for better or for worse. I met my husband at a gym in NYC! What if I'd joined a different gym? What if I hadn't worked out in the afternoons? These questions are endless.
Allison Winn Scotch
#41. People can burn and beat love out of you. They really can kill it, and it's not your fault you don't feel it anymore, and how liberating it is to finally realize that. Love isn't for better or for worse, through thick or thin. It damn well shouldn't be.
Patricia Cornwell
#42. Life doesn't come with an eraser. Experiences leave their mark, for better or for worse. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never been hurt.
Nenia Campbell
#43. But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at all; often enough, the choices we make are, for better or for worse, made by default.
Marya Hornbacher
#44. For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#45. Remember that, for better or for worse, you are in control of your physical self and surroundings
Kelly Williams Brown
#46. Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for worse."
Frederick Lenz
#47. Wizard's Third Rule
Passion rules reason, for better or for worse.
Terry Goodkind
#48. For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.
Mitch Albom
#49. What happened the day I met your father,' she said, 'is that I learned you ave to choose. For better or for worse. You have to choose what your life is going to look like.
Laura Dave
#50. Andy [Warhol] put on his fey kind of act, but he wanted to be number one and he succeeded. But you never know. Fifty years from now he might not be seen as so important, but the way our whole culture has gone, and the way it continues to go, is his way - for better or for worse.
Bob Colacello
#51. I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.
Rufus Wainwright
#52. For better or for worse, at this time science is still the most trustworthy mirror of reality, and we ignore it only at our peril.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#53. For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
Jodi Picoult
#54. After a certain period of time, when I had acquired more insight into the Fuehrer's personality, I gave him my hand and said: "I unite my fate with yours for better or for worse: I dedicate myself to you in good times and in bad, even unto death." I really meant it-and still do.
Hermann Goring
#55. I'm going to stick by you, for better or for worse."
"It will most likely be worse, you know."
"Yeah, I figured.
E.J. Fisch
#56. I never think I have success even when I have it, for better or for worse.
Juliette Lewis
#57. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
William O. Douglas
#58. We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.
Edsger Dijkstra
#59. I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
Ivan Reitman
#60. I think we explored the further reaches of 'for better or for worse' than some other married couples.
Mary Archer
#61. You can only hold on to something for so long and enjoy it just by yourself, what's the point? It's very selfish. For better or for worse, I feel like the point of all of this is to make someone feel something.
Frank Iero
#62. I'll always be there
I'd give anything and everything
And I will always care
Through weekness and strength
Happiness and sorrow
For better or for worse
I will love you
With every beat of my heart.
Shania Twain
#63. Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.
Kristin Gore
#64. For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.
William Pfaff
#65. Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of God's word to our own time and our contemporary situation.
Hans Rookmaaker
#66. The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place.
Florence Welch
#68. Passion rules reason, for better or for worse
Wizard's Rule #3
Terry Goodkind
#69. Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
Tony Campolo
#70. I live in New York and I love hanging out in gay clubs, and a lot of my friends are gay. But, for better or for worse, I'm not gay.
Moby
#71. Everything that we do affects our fate for better or for worse. The circumstances into which we are born also exert a tremendous influence; we come into the world with debits and credits for which we are not responsible already posted to our account: this teaches us humility.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#72. At Shimer we paid no attention to disciplinary boundaries; we blithely followed problems wherever they led. For better or for worse, I've never been able to shake this approach.
Alan Dowty
#74. The people we fall in love with we find singularly captivating, as are any of the people (or ideas) that inspire us, for better or for worse.
Adam Phillips
#75. For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.
John Steinbeck
#76. You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has much more say, much more control, for better or worse.
Susan Sarandon
#77. Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.
Tryon Edwards
#78. There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse.
Lisa Cholodenko
#79. As you read God's Word, always remember that it is something active, that it is doing something to you, for better or worse. When we hear or read the Word, we are not above it, using it for our own purposes. Rather, in the Word, God is doing something to us.
Anonymous
#80. One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.
Debbie Gibson
#81. For better or worse, honeybees are often much too busy to be bothered with personal reflection.
Susan Brackney
#82. When the preacher says it's for better or worse, you're so blinded by the possibility of better you fail to see the reality of worse.
Bette Lee Crosby
#83. For better or worse, whether it is a sign of aesthetic complexity or of intellectual indecision, this novel [Frankenstein] offers equally fertile ground to those readers who like their meanings ambiguous and indeterminate and to those who prefer to discern a deeply important doctrine.
Richard T. Nash
#84. We have to face those consequences head-on, for better or worse. We don't get to erase them just by saying we didn't mean to. Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices. I'm starting to think that when we don't own them, we don't own ourselves. Mark
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#85. What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.
Terry Brooks
#86. We were married for better or worse. I couldn't have done better, and she couldn't have done worse.
Henny Youngman
#87. Singers- nothing sounds like you. For better or worse-there is only 1 of you. Don't homogenize your sound by making it just like the next.
Lalah Hathaway
#88. The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house.
Janine Turner
#89. His life story was the story of Patricia and him, after all, for better or worse, and if she ended his life might go on, but his story would be over.
Charlie Jane Anders
#90. Nut shrugged. Set had always been Set, for better or worse. But he is still part of our family. It is difficult to lose any member of your family ... is it not?
Rick Riordan
#91. For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can't showcase in Aaron Sorkin's work.
Joshua Malina
#92. It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
#93. Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
Joyce Carol Oates
#94. For better or worse, we live in a world where money can be acquired simply by attracting attention and by making promises.
Jonathan Slack
#95. MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.
Hillary DePiano
#96. I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.
Ninni Holmqvist
#97. A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.
Ron Chernow
#98. The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.
Stephen Kinzer
#99. Egypt is the most populous Arab nation, the seat of Sunni Islamic doctrine, and has tremendous political, religious and social influence on the rest of the region. For better or worse, it will lead the rest of the Middle East by example. So goes Egypt, so goes the region.
Richard Engel
#100. Achieving the good life is more a matter of being than of doing or giving. It calls for intense self-scrutiny, a relentless honesty about one's motives, and a persistent feeling that we are no better - and perhaps worse - than those we are trying to help.
Sydney J. Harris
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