Top 100 In A Better Place Quotes
#1. Sometimes life seems a dark tunnel with no light at the end, but if you just keep moving forward, you will end up in a better place.
Jeffrey Fry
#2. My ex would know not to talk to me until I came back from running. I'd always be in a better place.
Arielle Kebbel
#3. A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window ... I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.
Garry Disher
#4. I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private.
Debi Mazar
#5. I like to think he's in a better place. And besides, when you get older, you want to have something to believe in.
Doug Dorst
#6. You're in a better place, I've heard a thousand times,
And at least a thousand times I've rejoiced for you.
But the reason why I'm broken, the reason why I cry,
Is how long must I wait to be with you.
MercyMe
#7. I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.
John Hodgman
#8. I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.
Frank Grillo
#10. I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.
Ashlee Simpson
#11. I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we'd live in a better place.
Cote De Pablo
#12. I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.
Shane Claiborne
#13. It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.
Veronica Roth
#14. I don't believe she's in Heaven and I don't believe she's in a better place. She's dead and when we're dead, we're gone. There are no blinding lights, there is no happy music, there are no Angels waiting to greet us.
James Frey
#15. I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.
Keith Hobbs
#16. It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place - they aren't here with you, and that's wrong,
Veronica Roth
#17. I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live.
Kevin Johnson
#18. I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my body than I used to be.
Bonnie Langford
#19. Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.
Hugh Hefner
#20. You know, if we're speaking on a cosmic level, you're never in a better place than you are in the current moment.
Ryan Daff
#22. They are not lost. Nor are they in a better place. They are gone. As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us. I
Kristin Hannah
#23. The best rescues of all leave a family in a better place.
Jon Taffer
#24. Keep moving. Have a goal, One day you will arrive at a place that is better than the place where you were, even if it is only in your head.
Linda Bloodworth Thomason
#25. The world would be a better place for man, if man were not in it.
Allyson Jones
#26. If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.
Mariska Hargitay
#27. the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#28. When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.
Norman Jewison
#29. A pair of freshmen rushed by our door talking about who would make a better Gallagher Girl: Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Veronica Mars (a debate made much more interesting by the fact it was taking place in Farsi).
Ally Carter
#30. ... She might have thought that it was the case, that all things worked out in the end, and that the world was a benevolent place, but she knew better now, and had to fake it.
Emma Straub
#31. If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more peaceful, better place where success in all forms is abundant and available to all. (A Gift to My Children)
Jim Rogers
#32. I thought of him as a beautiful deer in the forest that made this world a better place simply by existing; I didn't need it in my living room hanging off the wall.
Rainbowbrook
#33. Find calmness in storms. Find beauty in ugliness. Find peace in the midst of war. Now expand it. Only people with a higher consciousness can do this. It will make the world a better place for mankind.
Debasish Mridha
#34. To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.
Sam Harris
#35. Because when we reach, when we seek that place we have only seen in our imagination, we threaten the order of things, and threaten most especially the place of those who have found a better roost.
R.A. Salvatore
#36. The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
Sidney Sheldon
#37. The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain
as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.
Gautama Buddha
#38. To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.
Fela Kuti
#39. Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy.
Andrew Young
#40. The world would be a rather better place if we looked only for God in one another.
Harry Cavendish
Deanna Raybourn
#41. All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.
Bill Parcells
#42. A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
Jonathan Sacks
#43. In fact, if more people had group sex the world would be a better place. Maybe there'd be less war and stuff. Okay, I knew I was high when that thought popped into my head.
Marshall Thornton
#44. We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth ... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.
Jerry Lewis
#45. The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was going to be a singer because there was always someone better than me in my class.
Katie Melua
#46. Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.
Rainn Wilson
#47. As he slipped the lock into place again he realized his hand was trembling. He held up his shaky fingers where he could see them better and wondered at the equally weak flutter in his chest.
Hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it.
Nora Sakavic
#48. The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
Pope Francis
#49. Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?
Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it.
Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.
Evelyn Waugh
#50. The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.
Paulo Coelho
#51. My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
Abby Wambach
#52. It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.
John Steinbeck
#53. I hate raising money. It diverts you from what your real task is: to be a representative. You're diverted into preservation when you really want to spend your time and energy making a better state and a better country - which is the reason you ran in the first place.
Shelley Moore Capito
#54. I wanted to be alone with him. Really alone. "Maybe we should take this back to my place." He lifted his head to look at me, a strange expression on his face. I let out a nervous giggle. "That sounded better in my head."
"It sounded pretty damn good out of it.
Myra McEntire
#55. It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place
because we become better people in it.
Jodi Picoult
#56. Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.
Walter Wriston
#57. The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
Malcolm Turnbull
#59. When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better
those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.
Charles Dickens
#60. Then I reached down into myself and managed to say, 'you should celebrate, your birthday should be celebrated, because the world's a better place with you in it.' May you continue to pile on the years, but with more pleasure from now on.
Helen Simpson
#61. The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.
Emily Procter
#62. In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.
Susan L. Taylor
#63. All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.
Leo Tolstoy
#64. CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.
Fabiola Gianotti
#65. Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.
[as quoted in "Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue]
Paul McHugh
#66. Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.
Jackie DeShannon
#67. There was a sensible part of me somewhere that clutched its pearls and hissed that I better not give up my V-card in a CELLAR, but when Archer's hands slid under my shirt and onto the skin of my back, I started thinking that a cellar was as good a place as any.
Rachel Hawkins
#68. God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#69. I tried to be grown up but I have no interest in abiding by the adult rulebook. I want to do fun things that make me happy [ ... ] You might call me a child. Good. For if adults had even the slightest in-the-moment joy of a child then frankly the world would be a better place.
Miranda Hart
#70. Malcolm: So me and mine gotta lay down and die ... So you can live in your better world?
Operative: I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there ... any more than there is for you. I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it. But it must be done.
Joss Whedon
#71. The Gamma paused. "You have a crazed werewolf in your wine cellar?"
"You can think of a better place to stash him?"
"What about the wine?
Gail Carriger
#72. This isn't a game. If you sign on, your body will no longer be your own. Modesty has no place, none whatsoever, in a slave's repertoire. You will do as you're told, when you're told, or be punished. If this isn't something you think you can handle, you'd better face that right now.
Claire Thompson
#73. Kindness is a lamp that we should always kindle in our heart. The warmth of it not only make us happy from inside and give light to others. But also makes the world a little more beautiful place everytime it lights the lamps in other hearts.
Akshay Vasu
#74. Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#75. Every act of kindness and compassion toward others gets multiplied when they, in turn, pass it on. One by one the world becomes a better place. Service is indeed the gift that keeps on giving.
Joan Z. Borysenko
#76. In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton University. Like most immigrants, I was looking for a better life in a place I only half understood.
Virginia Postrel
#77. Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too?
Jay Leno
#78. If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
John F. Kennedy
#79. I got to thinking that the world would be a better place if they gave medals to great teachers rather than just soldiers who kill their enemies in wars.
Matthew Quick
#80. There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#81. Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.
Cornel West
#82. Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.
Naveen Jain
#83. This gentleman is heading for Mineral County in West Virginia. Near a place called Keyser, not too far from the Maryland line." Which all meant nothing to Reacher, except that West Virginia sounded one step better than regular Virginia.
Lee Child
#84. Reincarnation is the journey of hope because in each lifetime we move forward to place a better than our last lifetime, a place within ourselves.
Frederick Lenz
#85. I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.
Andy Goldsworthy
#86. I don't know what's come over this place,' Maud stated. 'However, the Lord did, so in despair He showed me what I had better do.'
'And did the Lord suggest your sticking up your father for ten shillings?'
'No, I thought of that,' said Maud, not turning a hair.
Elizabeth Bowen
#87. Millions of filmmakers would love to be in my position right now. If you are honest it makes the world a better place. I created the room with my passion and after all these years it finally worked out.
Tommy Wiseau
#88. As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always in the back of my mind is this thought that the world has to be a better place with you in it.
Shaun Tan
#89. [ ... ] we will turn this place around, and a new civilization can be born that does not know boundary lines but knows better how to live in the garden and knows that we are one thought away from paradise.
Jon Ronson
#90. Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead.
Jennifer Crusie
#91. I'm living in a very modest place. I have a room over-looking beautiful Claridge's Hotel. I thought it was better than paying Claridge's prices and overlooking the dump I'm living in.
Jack Benny
#92. Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle.
J.R. Miller
#93. I'm quite sure we'll find one another, in a place better than this, a time filled with us.
Tegan Quin
#94. Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.
Mary Douglas
#95. You hear some people talk about border security and a wall and all that. To me, I don't know that you need any of that if you had a better, saner way to let people into the country in the first place.
Scott Walker
#96. The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.
Andrei Codrescu
#97. This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
Gary Johnson
#98. I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.
Andrew Eldritch
#99. Even better than good error messages is a careful design which prevents a problem from occurring in the first place. Either eliminate error-prone conditions or check for them and present users with a confirmation option before they commit to the action.
Jakob Nielsen
#100. Maybe if we would just picture our enemies jerking off once in a while, the world would be a better place.
I don't know.
Matthew Quick
