Quotes of: Better-time Keyword

To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well.

Sanskrit

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Traditional

There is a time to speak up, and a time to be silent. A time to read and a time to write. A time to learn and a time to teach. A time to listen and time to be heard. A time to lose and a time to gain. And for all of these things the time in now

Life

For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from which he supposed he should have emerged a better person...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Did she say anything before she died?" he asked. "Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive him'" "Forgive him?" my father asked. "I think she was referring to the drunk driver who killed her." Wow. My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to ...

Steve Jobs

Rita Vrataski: [after Bill gets hit during training] You all right, Cage? Lt. Col. Bill Cage: I think I broke something... Rita Vrataski: What? Lt. Col. Bill Cage: My back. The only thing I can feel are my lips. Rita Vrataski: Now listen carefully. T...

Edge of Tomorrow

Two scorpions living in the same hole will get along better than two sisters in the same house.

Arabian

Better to do a kindness near home than go far away to burn incense.

Chinese

It is better to save your innocence at the expense of your honor than your country at the expense of your life.

Chinese

There is no better sale than when you give a true friend what he needs.

Chinese

It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule.

Dutch

To have two eyes can be cause for pride; but to have one eye is better than to have none.

Guinean

You can better drink from a small well with soft water than from the salty sea.

Georgian

Better one good thing that is than two good things that were.

Irish

Better to have one thousand enemies outside the house than to have one single enemy inside it.

Lebanese

If you find your friend on the sofa at home with your wife, you had better sell the sofa.

Yiddish

Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer tha...

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do not want to do, plus you get talked down to, ordered around by twats, you know you are better than. In reality, you are no better th...

Robert Black

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they a...

Bertrand Russell

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

Crown Duel