Little Better Quotes
170 quotes by 147 authors
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four…
— John Adams
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You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a…
— Claude Chabrol
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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was…
— Larry Bird
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Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without…
— Charles Kingsley
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The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and…
— Thomas Paine
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I do believe that it is extremely important that each one of us is a participant in life and what's going on around us rather…
— Janet Holmes a Court
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When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
— William Shakespeare
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The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the…
— Peter Singer
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I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered…
— Alfred Marshall
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Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.
— Dwayne Johnson
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But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody,…
— Mark Wahlberg
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I would [call myself a feminist], yes. I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still. I do…
— Rashida Jones
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I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting…
— Jim Caviezel
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Leave everything you do, every place you go, everything you touch a little better for your having been there.
— Julie Andrews
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We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little…
— Gladys Knight
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Hopefully, I want to play a little better than I did today.
— Padraig Harrington
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We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a littleĆ better.
— Oscar Niemeyer
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True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments…
— Henry David Thoreau
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