Just When You Thought Things Were Getting Better Quotes

#1. Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

H.G.Wells

#2. I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.

Derek Jacobi

#3. A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.

Katherine Heigl

#4. I was going into shock. The pain wasn't getting any better, and I thought that I would probably black out before I found out how this was going to end. Just as well - I was never particularly good at finishing things.

Joe Schreiber

#5. I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

Mary J. Blige

#6. Funny is funny is funny.

Bob Newhart

#7. Stay off the bandwagon. More likely than not, your own way of getting there makes for a better journey.

Faydra D. Fields

#8. I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.

Hillary Clinton

#9. I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values.

Richard Smalley

#10. To the youngsters of today, I say "Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity." Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.

Walt Disney

#11. She was disquietingly fluid - fluid without, however, being able to flow. I felt a hardness and a constriction in her, a grave mistrust, created already by too many men like me ever to be conquered now.

James Baldwin

#12. In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

Leon Panetta

#13. I was turning up at sets where inexperienced people were making these badly written films - but they were doing it; that was the point. They were getting their films out there. And they were paying me, so they obviously had access to money. I just thought, 'I can make something better than this.'

Dexter Fletcher

#14. 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

#15. I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.

Meghan O'Rourke

#16. I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.

Andrae Crouch

#17. I hold my peace, sir? no;
No, I will speak as liberal as the north;
Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,
All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

William Shakespeare

#18. The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Aristotle.

#19. He had every intention of becoming an alcoholic. It keeps you busy. Alcohol occupies every thought and provides a goal in times of despair: getting better.

Martin Page

#20. When a crisis occurs, I feel that one of my greatest responsibilities is to set a tone of calm no matter what the problems. Sometimes I have to fake confidence a lot. I also have to fake calm.

Christine Vachon

#21. I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

Fred Saberhagen

#22. Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

Simone Elkeles

#23. What an imagination. Like I'd go to Oval just to have sex.

Stephen Henning

#24. I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

Terry Gilliam

#25. But I felt then the same way Nicky did, that I was getting myself more life. Not necessarily a better life, not a life more promising than the one I already had. But because I thought this life was in addition to and not instead of, I devoured it without a second's hesitation.

Etgar Keret

#26. And besides, I'm so in Dutch with my neighbors here that I thought that was better than getting them all upset with what might be a fake bomb scare where they'd have to clear out the whole neighborhood.

Ernst Zundel