Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.
If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss.
And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it.
That somehow, this insufferable girl would become the one person I am forever, hopelessly, madly drawn to against my will and possibly even my better judgment.
I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.
Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?
Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.
Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.
But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
Our greatest need is not for a better income or a more appealing body, but for salvation.
I'm a fucking coward." "Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better off.
Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its pages and the smell of its crisp paper.
I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.
She could have lived every minute she'd had with him better. She should have always spoken the best words she could to him.
Enjoying a cup of coffee and a good book, is there anything better? Only if literature were liquid and drinkable.
I quickly became aware that the phrase "it can only get better" could very quickly turn into "it could always be worse," because it was.
