Top 100 No Better Quotes
#1. Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn't seem so dangerous at the time.
Mark Slouka
#2. What about the scar ... in my face. He managed to force out, couldn't
find the words, no better nor easier way to ask and even plead. Do you want me.
Do you honestly still want me?
Please, want me.
Aleksandr Voinov
#3. Caring too much could be dangerous; I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.
Ann Aguirre
#4. There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
Brad Meltzer
#5. It's all right", he said, wondering at the same time why there were no better words, why there never are any better words to answer fear and grief and loneliness. "It's all right, believe me.
Robert Bloch
#6. The surface below your feet is so special. It is not like a boxing ring, not like a wrestling mat, it's its own thing, and when I am there, I am floating, I am moving with total freedom, I am free. And when you know, when you just know you are going to win, like I do, there is no better feeling.
Conor McGregor
#7. There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.
Pharrell Williams
#8. Corpses are incapable of offering informed consent, and are hence no better than vibrators.
Seanan McGuire
#9. Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
Sophie Swetchine
#10. That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.
Richard A. Epstein
#11. We are to be brought through the fire, not left in it.
and you know what?
to anyone that ever told you that you're no good ... they're no better.
Hayley Williams
#12. Fine is the line between vengeance and justice. Blur it and you become no better than him.
Elizabeth Carlton
#13. You're no better. Playing dress-up like you know right from wrong. Who made you the fucking hero?
I did.
J.D. Cunegan
#14. The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.
Frederick Lenz
#15. The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see.
Russell Hoban
#16. We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.
Nick Lampson
#17. It's time you realized that uncertainty is the perpetual lot of mortal creatures, and resigned yourself to being no better than the rest of us. We've no choice but to trust what we don't understand, accept what we can't believe and walk where there's no path we can see.
Ann Lawrence
#18. My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment ... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
Bill Vaughan
#19. I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies.
Gunilla Brodde Norris
#20. The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead.
Glenn Hubbard
#21. Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.
Cameron Russell
#22. History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
Holbrook Jackson
#23. Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.
Thomas L. Friedman
#24. the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#25. When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM." "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#26. These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.
Terence McKenna
#27. A man is no better than he has to be.
John Wayne
#28. I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else.
Robert Shapiro
#29. There is no better way to gain perspective on one's life than by gazing upon the heavens.
Kristen Britain
#30. Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.
Mark Lawrence
#31. How shall I abide
In this dull world, which in thy absence is
No better than a sty?
William Shakespeare
#32. There is no better insurance than the knowledge of how to do something the right way. There is no greater peace of mind than knowing you did it the right way.
Jerry G. West
#33. Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#35. It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.
Max Walker
#37. He had understood long ago that the past was no better than the present. That was as plain as day. One had to try to escape, to wrestle free from every era, so as not to be devoured by it.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
#38. Religion tries to give us maps of sexuality that are no better than a 2,000-year-old map of my hometown.
Darrel Ray
#39. If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.
Holly Lisle
#40. I was unable to tear my eyes away from them as they ripped each other's clothes off. It was two men, no better make that two gods that I must have dreamt up.
Amelia LeFay
#41. There's no better way to energize your body, mind, and spirit than by taking care of yourself.
Stephanie Tourles
#42. If you left off traditions because you didn't know why they started you'd be no better than a foreigner.
Terry Pratchett
#43. Be a companion with Christ, and he will draw near unto you and be your best friend. There is no better friend than Christ.
William R. Bradford
#44. There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#45. Christmas is a time of sharing, and joy and grace. There's no better time to entertain family and friends than now.
Shelley Shepard Gray
#46. Orion smiled and leaned back against the wall, letting his gaze drift down in thought. Helen stared at him for a few moments, just enjoying his company and the fact that he was there with her. No. Better than that. He was there for her.
Josephine Angelini
#47. There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.
Helen Gurley Brown
#48. There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.
Samuel Chadwick
#49. and simple it was to join up. There was no better time
Sofka Zinovieff
#50. There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.
Chris Stewart
#51. There's no better way to serve and nourish the magnificence in another person than to simply listen to them openheartedly and without judgment.
Henry Kimsey-House
#52. There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.
Tim Hansel
#53. There's no better school than real life.
Lisa Genova
#54. What if they'd brought some weapon with them, or are launching an assault on the Mokshi right now? How can you or her trust people who are no better than bandits?" I gaze at the human skin stretched over the table. Zan follows my look and quiets. "We are all villains here," I say.
Kameron Hurley
#55. There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its ordinariness. The extraordinariness of the Sabbath lies in its being commonplace.
Judith Shulevitz
#56. If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground
William Shakespeare
#57. By remaining exactly the same today as you were yesterday, you are guaranteeing that tomorrow will be no better than today.
Daniel Lapin
#58. In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
Robert A. Heinlein
#59. You understood that there was no better thing in the world than to be kissed in the way she was kissing you, that this was without argument the single most important justification for being alive.
Paul Auster
#60. A good doctor. He would not let her take pills. Try each day just to laugh a little bit, it's a good medicine, he said. Pills were a second option. I should have taken them. No. Better off to try laughing. Die laughing.
Colum McCann
#61. There is no better means of promoting another person's change of heart than allowing our own heart to be changed.
C. Terry Warner
#62. Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!
Ole Hallesby
#64. There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.
Malcolm X
#65. What if I'm no better than you? What if instead of stopping you, I'm just another avalanche?
Leigh Bardugo
#66. Against his raising? I'll tell you!" She put her hand to her mouth. When she drew it away, it trailed a long silver thread of saliva. "Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for!
Harper Lee
#67. There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.
Charles Lindbergh
#68. Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.
Ridley Scott
#69. And maybe no better. There is no government in Mexico. Hell, there's no God in Mexico. Never will be. We are dealing with a people manifestly incapable of governing themselves. And do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
Cormac McCarthy
#71. Just as the English missionaries discovered when they came to India, there was no better way to carry Christ's love than through stupes and poultices, liniments and dressings, cleansing and comfort.
Abraham Verghese
#72. If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away!
Dale Carnegie
#73. Pounce if I'm outta some arbitrary line, Specter, but from what you say this demilout's runnin' hogwild over creation with no better motive than a gratuitous and luxurious will to do evil.
Steve Aylett
#74. No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.
Emil Cioran
#75. There is no better guide to this world than oblivion.
Sorin Cerin
#76. In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.
Gregg Allman
#77. It's not just your beauty - you've always had that. It's the way you believe in yourself, the way you make everyone around you believe there is no better place on earth than wherever you are. In the park, in a carriage, at the supper
table, next to you.
Ashley March
#78. America's total healthcare bill for 2014 is $3 trillion. That's more than the next ten biggest spenders combined: Japan, Germany, France, China, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Brazil, Spain, and Australia. All that extra money produces no better, and in many cases worse, results.
Steven Brill
#79. Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
Walter Kirn
#80. Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. Makes me wonder if God's even up there at all. And if he is, why ain't he doing a better job of things down here. Unless maybe he's doing the best he can. And if that's the case, he ain't doing no better than the rest of us.
Susan Adger
#83. Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.
Mark Shand
#84. Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemy's dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure?
Jacob Bronowski
#85. I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary and the Rosary.
Louis De Montfort
#86. People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.
Michael Dirda
#88. We're no better in God's eyes as Americans than Rawandans are, or anybody else.
Wayne Dyer
#90. In practicing the art of confusion, there is no better weapon than poetry.
Susan Hubbard
#91. There is no better feeling that is greater than the feeling you get offering your time and services to doing God's work".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#92. There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps
#93. I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#94. The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.
James Douglas
#95. All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about.
Tiffany King
#96. In Philly when it's good, there is no better place.
Pat Burrell
#97. In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.
Frank Ocean
#98. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.
Henry Rollins
#99. As I had been forced to learn at a very young age, there's no better way to mask a lie - or at least a glaring omission - than to wrap it in an emotional outpouring of truth.
Alan Bradley
#100. There's no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights, sounds and smells, and eventually, it'll teach you its rhythm.
Henry Mosquera
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