And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.
If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.
You are responsible for doing what good you can with what you have, and any good is better than none.
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.
Exactly. You like me. The word you use was like. You’ll find someone better than me. Someone you’ll love and not just like.
What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?
Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better; it just means that my way of living life on life’s terms improves.
So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion’s opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or not indifference would serve as a better black to its white.
Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?
Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.
Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.
[C]hildren were a much more difficult audience than adults because no on had yet had a chance to teach them that it was better to be polite than honest.
My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.
The novella will be called, I think, “The Messiah of Stockholm.” It takes place in Stockholm. I’d better say no more, or the Muse will wipe it out.
I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines.
But a bond is a bond. And when you’re young and haven’t yet learned to live in your own solitude, even a destructive bond can seem better than none.
Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?
Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.
