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We may never be strong enough to be entirely
nonviolent in thought, word and deed.
But we must keep nonviolence as our goal
and make strong progress towards it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We who engage in nonviolent direct action
are not the creators of tension.
We merely bring to the surface
the hidden tension that is already alive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts,
than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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