Improved Quotes
440 quotes by 405 authors
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Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.
— Lisa Kleypas
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It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll…
— Paula Danziger
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Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one…
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory
— Christopher Moore
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In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The…
— Michael Crichton
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I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house―condemned―for months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as…
— Tamora Pierce
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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased…
— Frederick Douglass
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In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and…
— Haruki Murakami
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She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though…
— Jane Austen
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Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.
— John Elder Robison
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.
— Jasper Fforde
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When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: "She's doing better now that we…
— Janet Evanovich
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Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
— John Wyndham
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Bacon improved things dramatically.
— Kristin Cashore
Who Wrote These Improved Quotes
405 authors contributed a total of 440 Improved Quotes, led by these top contributors: