The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.
I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better.
I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.
Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.
A Change in life will not always be the Best, but a try to take a Chance for a Better life will be never a Loss in our Life.
Indie band names would make better song titles; indie song titles would make better band names.
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, the world would be a little better place to live.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
Jessica: It's the same with Markus. Although he's getting better now, in the beginning it was just... prrffft.
Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.
And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.
In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.
I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.
I'm taking my time. I feel much more confident, and every day I feel like I'm getting better.
Lloyd: How are things going, Mr. Torrance? Jack Torrance: Things could be better, Lloyd. Things could be a whole lot better.
Father Barry: You'd better get rid of that gun, unless you haven't got the guts, and if you don't, you'd better hang on to it!
