All Quotes

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
‐‐ John Thorn

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
‐‐ Xenophanes

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.
‐‐ Buddha

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
‐‐ Gay Talese

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
‐‐ John Ruskin

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.
‐‐ Donnie Yen

Better to be disliked than pitied.
‐‐ Abba Eban

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
‐‐ B. C. Forbes

Better to be without logic than without feeling.
‐‐ Charlotte Bronte

Better to be wrong than be boring.
‐‐ Andre Geim

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
‐‐ John Charles Polanyi

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
‐‐ Dolores Ibarruri

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
‐‐ George S. Patton

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
‐‐ Auberon Waugh

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.
‐‐ Elisabeth Rohm

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
‐‐ George Crabbe

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
‐‐ John Milton

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
‐‐ Eric Sevareid

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
‐‐ Ike Skelton

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.
‐‐ Paul Nurse

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
‐‐ Jim Rohn

Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

Betting all your funds on the belief that you know what consumers want and are willing to pay for is like jumping into a river to test its depth - you'll need a lot of luck to stay afloat. To have a truly successful product launch, the conversations with your customers must start long before you write your first line of code.
‐‐ Jay Samit

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.
‐‐ Henry Petroski

Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
‐‐ Ilyasah Shabazz

Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.
‐‐ Odette Annable

Betty White is probably a very nice woman.
‐‐ Elaine Stritch

Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.
‐‐ Gareth Bale

Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.
‐‐ Jane Campion

Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole industries within months.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
‐‐ John Clayton

Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
‐‐ Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
‐‐ Kate Williams

Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.
‐‐ Heinrich Boll

Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.
‐‐ Ellen Malcolm

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.
‐‐ George P. Shultz

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.
‐‐ Cathy Freeman

Between 1995 and 2009, Western Europe's entrepreneurs created jobs faster than the U.S. did, and European economies exported more than the BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Eastern Europe's productivity increased more rapidly than East Asia's.
‐‐ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.
‐‐ Richard Francis Burton