Getting Better Now Quotes

#1. I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.

Daniel Radcliffe

#2. I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#3. There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature?

Rutherford B. Hayes

#5. I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.

George Pelecanos

#6. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

Denis Johnson

#7. I don't think much about the issues after they come out. I like it when people like them. Often, when people have criticisms, I find myself agreeing with them. I think some issues are stronger than others. I hope we're getting a little bit better, overall, issue by issue.

Lorin Stein

#8. I love singing. I've never felt I've had a great voice but I feel I've gotten better. It's funny. I can hear my voice aging and getting stronger. I've relaxed about my singing so I'm hearing it the way I like it.

Joel Plaskett

#9. History is the roadmap to a better tomorrow. Destroying it is getting rid of any chance of what not to do for future generations.

Jason E. Hodges

#10. I believe Donald Trump would be better for America than Barack Obama, because he understands business. Donald Trump has taken a pro- life position. He believes that we're getting shanghaied by China.

Mike Huckabee

#11. Sylvester wins, obviously [best actor in a supporting role in 2016]. That's the whole point of this. We're all getting dressed up to go to the Oscars to hear Sylvester Stallone, let no one get this twisted. The academy can't pay for a better moment than this: this is the Oscar's original darling.

Bun B.

#12. Self-control is a big deal in human performance. Getting better depends upon it. You cannot get better if it's not you who has to get better. You are the performer, period. You are the only thing you can control.

Henry Cloud

#13. If you are not getting better, you are getting left behind.

Alan Armstrong

#14. It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the Slovaks did not give up also. That is what the Olympics are all about. We executed where we needed to execute. It was important to play the way we always play.

Jayna Hefford

#15. The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

Marco Brambilla

#16. Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people you are getting to know better every day, something is bound to happen.

Anne Lamott

#17. At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.

Wadah Khanfar

#18. Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other way, on nutrition for example ... When you have an expenditure on getting your community healthier, then the resistance to many childhood diseases is stronger.

Michael Moore

#19. Our world is built on adrenaline and getting away with it. Different cities different names. Its a far simpler life to lead when there is one around to tell you when you are being stupid. Believe me dear cousin I know better than anyone.
- Gabrielle

Ally Carter

#20. Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again."
"Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?

James A. Owen

#21. The CIA's drone campaign is extraordinarily effective, and the agency is getting progressively better at targeting senior leaders and disrupting their networks.

Joby Warrick

#22. You, little girl, better be careful. You're dangerously close to getting me to fall for you, and I don't do relationship, I do girls. Call me if you're ever lonely.

Rachel Van Dyken

#23. What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

Seth Godin

#24. You don't see him again. Sometimes you worry that he loved you better than any man ever has or will
even if it had nothing to do with you. Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into a cab, every runner along the river, every motorcycle coming and going.

Melissa Bank

#25. Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.

Andy Partridge

#26. It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.

Rivers Cuomo

#27. I was tired of working in the lumber industry," Phil said. "I was sure I could find a better job, and look at me now - cook on a dilapidated submarine. Life keeps on getting better and better." "You always were an optimist," Klaus said.

Lemony Snicket

#28. I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.

Jay Roach

#29. The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.

Angel Kyodo Williams

#30. Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I'm in.

Walter Dean Myers

#31. Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.

Miriam Makeba

#32. Now everything is always getting better. Every morning when I wake up, I thank God that I'm not waking up in a hospital anymore and that I have the most supportive family and friends ever.

Amy Rankin

#33. Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes stuff. I'm getting better at that. I'm making sure everything is a write-off. Every single thing.

Kendra Wilkinson

#34. I'm hitting it better than last year. The putting is getting close now, too.

Lee Westwood

#35. I'm still learning. Hopefully I can keep getting better, and not stop where I am now.

Tim Duncan

#36. Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

George Clinton

#37. The woman who looks back at me from my bathroom mirror is sliding toward her mid-fifties. She'd better be careful- she's getting old.
I myself am about thirty. I've been thirty for about twenty-three years now.

Cheryl Peck

#38. The policeman move up the line saying, You can't fuck, go home. You can't fuck neither remove youself. You look like you can fuck, stay. You go, you go. Hold on, hold on now, you move like is you the one who getting the fucking. Batty boy, remove youself, and you, you better stay.

Marlon James

#39. Howard Dean was endorsed by former Vice President Al Gore and now he is getting advice from Al Gore. And I'm thinking, who better to give advice than the guy who couldn't even get elected with the most votes?

David Letterman

#40. 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

#41. I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.

John Rhys-Davies

#42. I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

Gareth Gates

#43. I think digital is getting so much better. It's harder and harder to make the argument now for film. All things being equal, though, I still prefer to capture on film.

Lenny Abrahamson

#44. I'd rather have head to head and right now they're not getting any numbers. She's [Jill Stein] doing better than he [Gary Johnson] is, but right now in some polls she's actually not doing badly.

Donald Trump

#45. I wasn't happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I've never said that, but, you know, I'm getting to an age where I think I'd better start saying it ... And I don't mean that to sound that I'm being critical of somebody or blaming somebody.

Alexander Haig

#46. I wasn't getting better. I was getting worse.
I did not go to the doctor because I didn't want pills. If this was going to kill me then let me be killed by it. If this was the rest of my life I could not live.

Jeanette Winterson

#47. My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

Rick Perry

#48. Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.

Susan Polis Schutz

#49. Ben West points out that even from a selfish perspective, earning to give allows you to have things that people believe make them happy, like money and a high-status job, while still getting the fulfillment that comes from knowing you are helping to make the world a better place.

Peter Singer

#50. Are you really going to go all the way to Helsinki to see her without getting in touch first? All the way across the Arctic Circle?" "Is that too weird?" She laughed. " 'Bold' is the word I'd use for it." "I feel like things will work out better that way. Just intuition, of course.

Haruki Murakami

#51. It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

Fay Wray

#52. He'd made the world a little better, or at least, prevented it from getting worse. That was his purpose. That was his point. Someone

Victoria Schwab

#53. Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

Yoko Ono

#54. I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#55. I'm just getting older and better.

Neal Schon

#56. Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

Anna Kournikova

#57. All I wanted to do was to improve, to keep getting better.

Michael Jordan

#58. Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

Martin Luther

#59. Look, if you're going to get better, you have to push yourself. If you push yourself, you're going to fall. If you're not falling, you're not pushing. Falling is part of getting better.

Darren Hardy

#60. I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'

Joss Whedon

#61. It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.

Vijay Singh

#62. The chance of a criminal getting caught,
is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning.

Michael Peterson

#63. I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better.

Rip Taylor

#64. The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

Florence Nightingale

#65. I love the game. It's fun to play, period. I love running around and getting sweaty. I love trying to lead my team. I love facing the challenge of another team that's better.

Jamila Wideman

#66. Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.

Ben Bernanke

#67. I don't know why hurting means getting better.

Emma Donoghue

#68. With the skills that I have and with my commitment to getting better I don't see any reason I can't win every single fight I'm in.

Daniel Cormier

#69. Ah, Houellebecq. I've only read him in English translations so I'm sure I'm not getting the full greatness of his work, but golly, he writes better sex scenes than anyone else alive.

Chuck Palahniuk

#70. I still let myself be a fan of music and that motivates me to want to be better than certain people or just getting the same love. Nothing is new under the sun so you cant be afraid to take things from others and try to flip them and make them your own at the end of the day.

Kid Ink

#71. Bad writers don't practice, Stella. It's the good ones who care enough to try, who worry about getting the words just right. You are probably better than you think -Papa

Sharon M. Draper

#72. Devote yourself to getting to know Him better, then you will grow in that righteousness which is in you, in peace, in joy and God will look after other people and solve their problems for them.

Sunday Adelaja

#73. I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

Britta Phillips

#74. I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

Sarah Dessen

#75. So I drank every night after work, alone, up at my place and I had enough left for a day at the track on Saturday, and life was simple and without too much pain. Maybe without too much reason, but getting away from pain was reasonable enough.

Charles Bukowski

#76. It doesn't help to follow every rise and fall of your portfolio. It's better to tune out the day-to-day shifts, in fact. But getting a handle on the larger picture will make you feel more secure, and that goes a long way in calming your fear.

Jean Chatzky

#77. It's about getting to a point in your life where you're ready to let go and move on and become the better version of yourself.

Jared Leto

#78. Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.

Pema Chodron

#79. For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

Ian Thorpe

#80. What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?

Dorothea Benton Frank

#81. Sometimes crying is needed to feel better. The pressure of life becomes so much at times that you need to relieve it.

R.D. Cole

#82. Well, if getting to the bottom is what is called for, I am sure there is no man better for the job.

Amor Towles

#83. I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that I can handle. That's not to say I'm calm, because that would be b****cks! I wish it were the case, but it's getting better as I get older.

Anna Friel

#84. We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'

Lou Holtz

#85. I would love to be better at cooking but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I love the process of putting everything together and the chance of getting it right or wrong but it takes ten minutes to eat it and then ages to clean.

Mark Webber

#86. I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.

Andrew Bird

#87. The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Carol Moseley Braun

#88. Sometimes I have to pretend I feel brave before I actually do. Sometimes I never make it past the pretending part. But those days are getting fewer and further between.

Nicole Williams