Better Part Quotes

69 Better Part quotes by 61 unique authors

I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team… — Sebastian Thrun
A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of… — Dave Barry
Discretion is not the better part of biography. — Lytton Strachey
I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life. — Eric Burdon
After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be… — Roy Barnes
If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling. — Joe Mantegna
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. — Henry David Thoreau
I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families. — Bernie Sanders
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge. — Charles Caleb Colton
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are… — Philip K. Dick
I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for… — Beth Ditto
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had… — Khaled Hosseini
The determination to win is the better part of winning. — Daisaku Ikeda
Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When it starts in… — Jack Kerouac
My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd… — Frank O'Hara
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. — Abraham Lincoln
The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as… — Henry David Thoreau
Discretion is the better part of valor. — William Shakespeare
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the… — Anton Chekhov
Ash paused as he entered the house to find the three women lined up and... singing to... dear gods, anything but this. "Fergilicious." All he… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his… — Virginia Woolf
Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person,… — Dani Shapiro
Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated. — Jim Butcher

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