Not Better Quotes

#1. I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

Aron Ralston

#2. And this is the mission of the church
not civilization, but salvation
not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality and liberty, but first, the "kingdom of God and His righteousness;" regenerated hearts, and all other things will follow.

Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#3. Sometimes you want to change the past by going from the future in the past. But sometimes you find that everything which you have done, it's not better but it becomes worst but why?
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Deyth Banger

#4. Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.

Magda Gerber

#5. We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them.

Ralph Fiennes

#6. Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.

Mary Hunter Austin

#8. The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better. And I don't want that.

J.K. Rowling

#9. Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

Bill Gates

#10. America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago.

Mitt Romney

#11. (Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.)

Rainbow Rowell

#12. Everything gets better in the end. If it's not better, it's not quite the end.

Paulo Coelho

#13. Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

Vincent De Paul

#14. Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think 'My life will be upside down' don't worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?

Shams Tabrizi

#15. It is once your ideas have been transformed into enough money, and if all failed, you would still live your lifestyle, and you understand that just because you have made more money than most, you are not better than the common person. We are all going to die broke.

Tim Blixseth

#16. Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same.

Claire Denis

#17. The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

Michael Mandelbaum

#18. A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing - a flower in the process of expressing its potential.

Paulo Coelho

#19. Of course you wanted your children to have it better than you had. But at what point was it not better at all?

Philipp Meyer

#20. Pretending/imagining is pretty much the real thing if you do it well enough (if not better)

Myself

#21. Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

Albert Einstein

#22. No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.

Carlos Santana

#23. Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Sean Covey

#24. I like to hang with the boys and I like to prove that I can be one of the boys, if not better.

Michelle Borth

#25. Just remember, everything should be EXACTLY as it is. Not better, not worse. - L. R. W. Lee

L.R.W. Lee

#26. You are special, everyone is special. But you are not better. All are valuable.

Erika Johansen

#27. I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

Cato The Younger

#28. is it not better to complain if one but complain to God himself? Does he not then draw nigh to God with what truth is in him? And will he not then fare as Job, to whom God drew nigh in return, and set his heart at rest?

George MacDonald

#29. Israel has no better friend that America. And America has not better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#30. Why are you scared, John?'
'Because I know I'm not better.'
'Why do you think that?'
'Because I know it in my heart.

James Frey

#31. My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care for people and singular in his devotion to God.

William Edgar

#33. I'm not better than you; I'm just different than you in a way that's better.

Russell Brand

#34. I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.

Tim Tebow

#35. A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.

Udonis Haslem

#36. We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.

Maureen Dowd

#37. Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#38. I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

Carey Mulligan

#39. There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.

Daniel Kahneman

#40. The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world.

Jean Wilson

#41. When our expectations differ from better, we think bitter, but that is not better! Stay better, think positive, no matter what; there is always a better lesson to learn!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#42. Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Confucius

#43. My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.

Brenna Yovanoff

#44. The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.

Norman Mailer

#45. The one thing my mother instilled in me, well both my parents but specifically my mother - I come from a Muslim country where boys were more wanted than girls so she always made me feel that there is nothing that I couldn't do as well as the boys if not better.

Iman Abdulmajid

#46. Were it not better to forget
Than but remember and regret

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#47. I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it would be magnified by association.

Gail Carson Levine

#48. Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.

Mitt Romney

#49. I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to ... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.

Jack Osbourne

#50. I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#51. Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees ... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream ...

Ernest Dowson

#52. It's not better to give than to receive. It's insane to try to give and not receive.

Bob Burg

#53. Stop whining like a fucking child." "You could have just said, 'I need your help.'" "All right. I need your help. Stop whining like a fucking child." "That's not better.

John Scalzi

#54. My old love, my new
Unlike wine, it's not better
Fresh blood is so sweet

Debby Feo

#55. How can you say bad things about someone you don't know?" I shout. "How can you hate a stranger? Why do you have to pick on people?" she's not better than Yaqui. It's like everywhere there's a bully in my face.

Meg Medina

#56. A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#57. Then [Badger] fetched them dressing-gowns and slippers, and himself bathed the Mole's shin with warm water and mended the cut with sticking-plaster till the whole thing was just as good as new, if not better.

Kenneth Grahame

#58. If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.

Tim Howard

#59. I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.

George Soros

#60. Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?

Michel De Montaigne

#61. We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We've just been to the last stop of this bus.

Sergei Dovlatov

#62. I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.

Donald Trump

#63. I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.

Isabel Allende

#64. Just say "I'm sorry." It's not a tongue twister. It does not need repeating multiple times. The phrase is simple and short, easy to articulate. And the last time I checked, it sounded just as good - if not better - in a whisper. So just say it; say "I'm sorry.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#65. More is not better. Better is better. You don't need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don't need more stuff; you need stuff you'll actually use.

Alex Steffen

#66. The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church's social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

Matt Chandler

#67. Is not living at all not better than living badly?

Critias

#68. I remember where I come from. I just see myself as someone who gets up and does what she loves every day - I'm not better or worse than anybody.

Kate DeAraugo

#69. There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Havelock Ellis

#70. He's not better than you, I replied. He's just better for me.

Dakota Madison

#71. That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.

Tamora Pierce

#72. At the same time I know that it's not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.

Lauren Oliver

#73. I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

Barry Sanders

#74. I'm not better when I force shots. I'm going to take them as they come. They are really sagging in there, trying to take me out of the game. It's my job to find guys. I want to be aggressive and take my shots, but I can't force them.

Tim Duncan

#75. Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.

Simon Mainwaring

#76. I'm not better then anyone because of what I do, who I am and where I come from.

Roger Miret

#77. Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.

Jakob Dylan

#78. Have you ever wondered why your financial situation is not better even though you make more money now than you did when you were younger?

Celso Cukierkorn

#79. Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#80. A man who has not better government of his tongue, no more command of his temper, is unfit for everything but children's play and the company of boys.

David McCullough

#81. And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.

Mary Oliver

#82. Was it not better to wear it, do it, live it, than suppress it? That only leads, on an international scale of course, to war.

Larry Kramer

#83. 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But ... it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction ... Today, nearly forty years later, the situation is worse, not better.

John Fuller

#84. Is it not better to live in dreams and realize it than to live in reality and forget to dream?

Debasish Mridha

#85. You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Johann Caspar Lavater

#86. Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

Mark Twain

#87. My aunt Marge has been so ill for so long that we've started to call her I can't believe she's not better

Milton Jones

#88. We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.

Allan Pease

#89. The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Publilius Syrus

#90. Before we started writing we did feel pressure because of the success of the first record. One of the first songs that we wrote was "Out Of My Heart" which is the first single. As soon as we wrote that, we knew we just set the standard and every other song had to be as good if not better.

Christian Burns

#91. You know, you're too pretty for me to leave you on the couch like that," he said, pulling me toward him. I didn't know that, but I did understand then that there was no such thing as safe, only safer; that this, if it didn't happen now, would happen later but not better.

Danielle Evans

#92. If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates be not BETTER and bright who would work in the BEST interest of the organization, either individually or jointly, to bring sustainability in achieving newer growth height.

Anuj

#93. We are here as a reminder that the world is not better off without you.

Frank Iero

#94. People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because humans are so awful. And yes, we are absolutely screwing up this planet, but that is only because we have the capabilities to do so. Animals are not better than us. They are not nicer than us.

Elise Andrew

#95. I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?

Elizabeth Prentiss

#96. Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.

Peter Lynch

#97. I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?

Kenneth Cain

#98. Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#99. In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

Brian P. Cleary

#100. There are some stories that don't want telling," Gian said. "Some stories you tell, they make things worse. Not better.

Kameron Hurley