You're In A Better Place Now 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. Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.

Jeff Cooper

#3. After Donald Trump's derogatory comments about immigrants, NBC has officially cancelled Celebrity Apprentice. Think about it: Donald Trump isn't even president yet, and he's already made America a better place!

Conan O'Brien

#4. Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they're all trying to improve the world. And I think that those basic choices make the world a better place.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

Don King

#6. Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs.

Neneh Cherry

#7. Orpheus. Had the name he had taken ever suited him better? But he would be wilier than the singer whose name he had stolen. He would indeed. He would send another man into the realm of Death in the Fire-Dancer's place-and he'd make sure that he didn't come back.

Cornelia Funke

#8. 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

#9. I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.

Maya Angelou

#10. We are called to make the world a better place, people - happier.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#12. Ben West points out that even from a selfish perspective, earning to give allows you to have things that people believe make them happy, like money and a high-status job, while still getting the fulfillment that comes from knowing you are helping to make the world a better place.

Peter Singer

#13. Your life moves to a better place when you move at a sustainable pace

Jeff Henderson

#14. A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.

Marco Rubio

#15. Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

Jackee Harry

#16. 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

#17. The last couple of years were hell. Like, I can't even tell you, it was so hard. I didn't know how to handle it. But I think I'm in a much better place now, because I stepped away for a second and took a breath. Hollywood is a funny place. It offers so much, but it can also take a lot away from you.

Cameron Diaz

#18. 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

#19. Now listen,' said George angrily, 'I've been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you what's going on.'

'Nonsense. If there's one place in the world where nobody knows what's going on, it's a newspaper office.

Jack Iams

#20. If you were blind you would hardly have fallen in love in the first place. But now, do you truly wish to see the beloved in the cold clarity of the visual apparatus? It may be in your better interest to throw a veil over the gaze, so as to keep her alive in her archetypal, goddesslike form.

J.M. Coetzee

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. You're right, Margaret, absolutely right. Things have changed a lot, even since I've been here. It's a different place now. Better in some ways, worse in others."
"Better!" she echoed, scornfully.

Jonathan Coe

#24. If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?

Jerry Stahl

#25. You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.

Eyedea

#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 world would be a better place for man, if man were not in it.

Allyson Jones

#28. While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.

Bill Hicks

#29. There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.

Jamie Smith

#30. I think it's contentment. Where you have everything you ever wanted, all together in one place. It's quieter than excitement, but, [ ... ] maybe it's better.

Heather Anastasiu

#31. I'm not a bad person. I haven't killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don't kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

Gena Showalter

#32. Why live if you can't help others and make the world a better place?

Ben Mikaelsen

#33. I love Denver. There's not a better place to hit, better place to play. I'm a West Coast guy, so I like playing in the NL West.

Garrett Atkins

#34. My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life ... I had to live in my head ... art was a way of making myself feel better.

Philip Schultz

#35. Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.

Bill Cosby

#36. I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

Banksy

#37. If you knew you were going to die, wasn't it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate to drop on you like an anvil?

Jodi Picoult

#38. She was the one person he'd hoped to avoid as much as possible when he'd taken his place as Sheriff of Maxville. It wasn't that he disliked her, that was the problem. Despite his better judgment and a glutton for punishment, he still cared too damn much for the woman.

Lia Davis

#39. 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

#40. There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.

Donna Brazile

#41. The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

Mark Hyman

#42. If you're looking for a place to rest Cold Mountain is good for a long stay The breeze blowing through the dark pines Sounds better the closer you come And under the trees a white haired man Mumbles over his Taoist texts Ten years now he hasn't gone home He's even forgotten the road he came by

Hanshan

#43. You can't make the world perfect, Daniel," Michelle said calmly while dusting dirt off her jeans with her delicate hand.
"No. I can't," I agreed. "But I can sure help make it better.

Shannon A. Thompson

#44. the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#45. There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.

Theodore Dalrymple

#46. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

David Lagercrantz

#47. People come to L.A. because they're chasing that dream of a better life. That's why I came here, because I thought it would be a place where I would find other people like me; people who wanted to write, people who had a dream of being something else. And that proved to be true.

Robert Crais

#48. And these [pharmaceutical] companies are still threatening to sue. And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you not want the world to be a better place? You're still making a profit. How much more of a profit do you want to make?

Elton John

#49. If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.

Dalai Lama

#50. I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

Laura Lippman