Top 100 Sometimes It's Better To Quotes
#1. Some drawings are better than others ... Some are utterly spoiled ... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing ... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.
Walter J. Phillips
#2. Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#3. Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. You will fare better investing time, planning, strategic thinking in order to secure a stable, fruitful future.
Carlos Wallace
#4. Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy.
Sharon Salzberg
#5. The people, they don't know what it takes sometimes to keep them safe and it's better that they don't.
Don Winslow
#6. There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.
Agatha Christie
#7. Julian, sometimes girls are like junk food. They look good, and they sure taste good ... but you know they're not healthy for you and cause cavities so it's better to just leave 'em alone. Got me?
Simone Elkeles
#8. I always try to enjoy the game. It is easy to say but it's true. Every game is different, sometimes you feel better inside you but you have to enjoy your game.
Rafael Van Der Vaart
#9. Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations.
Adhish Mazumder
#10. Bravery is all well and good, but sometimes it's much better to be cautious.
Andrea Cremer
#11. Showing STRENGTH doesn't mean we have to fight a battle...Sometimes it's far better to WALK AWAY from all the nonsense and those who indulge in it
Karen Gibbs
#12. Hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a little bit of unhappiness to make those happy pay-offs work better. That's something that is fascinating to us and I think has really changed the way that stories are told.
Jeff Pinkner
#13. Jah know, sometimes I don't learn till too late, and to know something too late? Well is better you never know as my mother used to say. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late. So
Marlon James
#14. Sometimes it's better to go against the crowd and feel alone,
than to agree and have a false sense of belonging
Steven Aitchison
#15. It is easy to kill. It is equally easy to destroy glass windows. Any fool can do either. Why is it only the wise who perceive that it is wisdom to let live, when even lunatics can sometimes understand that it is better to open a window than to smash the glass?
S.M. Stirling
#16. People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.
Kristen Stewart
#17. It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
Natalia Makarova
#19. I feel guilty sometimes. It may be that innate English nature - the need to think that you must've done something wrong if you're a success. It's sometimes better if you can say: 'Okay, I'm a failure; now will you be my friend?'.
Emily Lloyd
#20. Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, and
decided to say nothing.
Paulo Coelho
#21. It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.
Paul Thomas Anderson
#22. The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#23. But love isn't a career. It isn't a degree you earn or a formula you pull out of a textbook. It's bumpy and blotched and painful and completely irreplaceable. Aren't there times when it might be better to let go? Sometimes the best part of life grows out of what you have no say over.
Carol Cassella
#25. It's so hard sometimes, living in this world. But I know from experience, it can always get better if you're willing to ask for help.
Chris French
#26. Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.
Kristin Hannah
#27. Sometimes it's just better to suck up the fact that you are an asshole and decide that tomorrow is the day you will start being the person you intend to be.
Meg Howrey
#28. Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it's better. Sometimes it's worse. And sometimes it's just different. It's not worth wasting time and energy trying to predict how things are going to turn out. Just go with the flow and keep your eyes and ears peeled.
Abby Rosmarin
#29. Sometimes I think it's better to be a diva.
Julia Barr
#30. Democracy can tie your hands in a rock 'n' roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you've got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it's sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions.
Jason Isbell
#31. Of course it's better to be good. I know it is but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it
L.M. Montgomery
#32. have liked for him to say my name again, though. You know how it is when someone says your name really well, like it means something that makes the world a better place. In Louis Chen's case, he sometimes says my name as if it were a lesser-known word for bacon.
Helen Oyeyemi
#33. Hesitation, anxiety, the struggle between belief and disbelief - all that is sometimes such a torment for a conscientious man ... that it's better to hang oneself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#34. It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#35. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
Michael Crawford
#36. Sometimes you just have to let go of the old and trust that something better is going to take its place, even if it's scary to face change and the unknown.
Alana Stewart
#37. It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.
Harry Chapin
#38. It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
Dashiell Hammett
#39. Don't look so stiff and concerned, bucko. Word from the wise, sometimes there's no better place to hide than in the open, and no better way to disappear than to stand out."
"That doesn't make any sense."
"Sure it does. Hogan wrote it years and years ago - you do know who Hogan is right?
Gillian Bronte Adams
#40. I've learned that maybe sometimes it's better to show people who you are and what you are thinking about. That way, you can be more relaxed with yourself.
Tina Maze
#41. Sometimes you can't help people. Sometimes it's better not even to try.
Stephen King
#42. We all have flaws, no matter how hard we try to tame sometimes still eludes us. If you give me your flaw, I'll handle it flawlessly, and I mine, you'd do the same. That's when two is better than one, else, we'll have two aggravated untamed flaws.
Ufuoma Apoki
#43. Sometimes instead of creating a scene it's better to quietly slip out of the scene, practically unseen. It saves a lot of drama, unless of course you're into more drama in your life, in which case, go ahead and make a scene, see what happens.
Art Hochberg
#44. It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
Mark Twain
#45. Sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know
Al Pacino
#46. Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.
Karen Salmansohn
#47. I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one - at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.
D.J. MacHale
#49. In film, you get to take your time and make it right. In TV, it's all about the schedule. The train is moving and you sometimes just don't have time to make things right, which is painful 'cause you know it could be done better and you just have no choice.
Seth Gordon
#50. The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements.
Tyler Cowen
#51. We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus! ...
Brad Paisley
#52. And I do get it; some decisions are irreversible. But like I've said, sometimes it's the irreversible ones that help a person get to know herself a little better. It's the consequences that matter. It's the fact that there are no do-overs that makes life matter at all.
Hannah Pittard
#53. But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere. - My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult
#54. The eye of God is inside us. It's looking through us and it sees whatever we look at. Sometimes I think we could give God better things to look at, don't you?
Frederick Lenz
#55. Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere.
Todd Barry
#56. Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward's talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to bend.
Geraldine Brooks
#57. Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.
Chris Cornell
#58. Sometimes what we desire the most can change who we are, and it's up to us to decide if that's for better or worse. You must learn to control those desires so that you're always on the right path, even if that means never attaining or holding on to the thing you want most." Niko's
Dannika Dark
#59. Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Terry Pratchett
#60. Sometimes it's better just to think things through than to talk about them all the time.
Catherine Clark
#61. When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don't know what to expect. I don't mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway.
Hugh Jackman
#62. You don't have to be good all the times. It's okay to be hurt sometimes. It's okay to feel lost like you're wandering around in the dark. It's the bad days that make the good ones so much better.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#63. I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.
Dave Matthews
#64. Sometimes when you take chances you lose chances. And sometimes when you lose chances, you gain something else. Don't live for chances. Sometimes it's better to lose chance and gain purpose. Live for today. You'll find so much more joy.
Marilyn Grey
#65. To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.
Albert Camus
#66. Nothing's ever too fast. Maybe sometimes on the road some people are too fast if they don't know how to control the car, but in racing, the faster and more power and grip, the better it is.
Heikki Kovalainen
#67. I guess sometimes it's got to hurt before it can get better."
I nodded. "Hearts are like that.
Charles Martin
#68. Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana.
Charles Durning
#69. ...there's no mistake if you can resolve it, whether it's in your music or in your life. Sometimes the mistake motivates you or elevates you to a different circumstance that can be better. If I make a mistake, I'm going to develop that mistake, so it doesn't sound like a mistake. -Dave Brubeck
Andrew Zuckerman
#70. I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.
Graham Nash
#71. A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep quiet and think with your heart.
Sharan Newman
#72. It's better sometimes to be lucky than good.
Kurt Busch
#73. Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
Serj Tankian
#74. 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
Mara Wilson
#75. Sometimes, people won't like what you do. Do it anyway. It's better to be happy and hated than miserable.
Kit Rocha
#76. We all of us seem to have this belief that things are going to get better. Why should they? Sometimes I think we're moving into a new ice age of tyranny and terror, why not? Who's to stop it - us?
Doris Lessing
#77. I wanted to make the right decision, but that's the thing that nobody ever had the decency to explain to me: sometimes there is no correct path. There's only a path where you get slightly less fucked and it's a matter of picking which undesirable consequences you're better equipped to handle.
S. Hart
#78. Now and then I'd catch my mother looking at my like she was thinking about her life, like she was about to say something, but she never did. I didn't expect it. Sometimes it's better not to go back
just settle accounts as they are, call it even.
Mark Slouka
#79. It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.
Bette Davis
#80. It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey
Sean Covey
#81. Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.
Peter Straub
#82. It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.
Shirley Henderson
#83. Father used to say it's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good." "Not
Khaled Hosseini
#84. It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.
Khaled Hosseini
#85. Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.
Jim Butcher
#86. Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#87. Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and push, and that's great. That's better than great ... it's necessary.
Laurel Nakadate
#88. As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things don't go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.
Terry Francona
#89. Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.
Tina Fey
#90. Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.
A.J. Darkholme
#91. Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.
Alexandra Adornetto
#92. You taught me once, Lorn. I'm a better man for it. But now it's my turn to teach you. Men can change. Sometimes they have to fall. Sometimes they have to leap.
Pierce Brown
#93. It's far better to do less and do it well,
than to do too much and do it poorly.
Sometimes you have to push yourself away from the table and say, "I'm full.
Monika Kristofferson
#94. Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.
Megan Chance
#95. Sometimes it's better to fail with pride, than to succeed at a price
Benny Bellamacina
#96. Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about the stuff we are made of.
Tania Aebi
#97. Temporary homecomings are bittersweet. Sometimes it's better not to go back at all than to have to leave again.
Amanda Bouchet
#98. Above all, translators must be native speakers. It's not because they speak the language better
I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#99. Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to think fast.
John Bytheway
#100. Sometimes, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation. "I hate everything about our lives right now, Klaus," she said, "but we have to keep our chin up." This was an expression the children's father had used, and it meant "try to stay cheerful." -P. 32
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