It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.
At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.
I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.
Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.
You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.
What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.
Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel too good. Something's going to happen.
For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
If we can modernise the workforce, make them better qualified, have this framework of qualifications, then I think they have a very good case for more money.
We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
