It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
For the first time in a long time a bit of something I was unfamiliar with crept up inside me. If I hadn’t known better, I’d have thought it was hope.
Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!
Sometimes in life, dreams aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. When they’re not, though, there’s usually another dream—a better dream —waiting for you in the wings.
Invasion was never a holy war in Islam, but it was holy in political Islam and the Islamic states and empires; after all, what is better than religion to drive people to war?!
When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.
Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.
Some people think what you’re supposed to do in life is fill yourself up with loads of things like names, the more the better. But that’s not how it works.
Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.
Was it good to treasure the memory of a few perfect hours together? Or would I have been better off never meeting him?
Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
I walk with my head high, shoulders squared. I'm better than them. No matter the whispers and taunts they throw out. Fuck them. Fuck them all.
You will need people who know what u don’t, who have what u don’t have, people who have done what u have not for they are better prepared
We are going to make mistakes no matter what, so it's better to be strong in faith despite our mistakes than weak in faith because of them.
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...
They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leadership that will.
So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.
