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Better Quotes by Wendell Berry
- The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will…
- Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
- There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this…
- I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better…
- We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
- All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold…
- It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
- We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
- During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still…
- The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and…
- Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the…
- To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by…
- I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about…
- There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with…
- It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing…
- From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful; from the point…
More Better Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius