Quotes of: Getting-better Keyword

I work much better in sunshine. It's drizzle and grayness that I don't like.

Lucy Davis

literature is a way in which we can learn to live deeper lives -- husband with wife, parent with child, brother with sister, fellow member with fellow member. Most good authors are better than we are. They are much better company than our own friends...

Abundance of the Heart

You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirt...

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

I think that a lot of the time, people are generous towards those whom they pity; but only find fault in those whom they see as better than themselves. There is a fake kind of goodness; and that is the goodness that is only good towards other people ...

C. JoyBell C.

We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural en...

Terence McKenna

Dr. Ian Malcolm: [Malcolm waves a flare, to get the T-Rex's attention] Hey, hey, hey, hey! Dr. Alan Grant: Ian, freeze! Dr. Ian Malcolm: Get the kids! [the T-rex sees the flare, roars at Malcolm, and runs after him] Dr. Alan Grant: Get rid of the fla...

Jurassic Park

Frank: I am going to get something to drink. You want anything? Grandpa: Yeah, get me some porn. Get me something really nasty too, I don't want any of that airbrushed shit. Frank: Okay. Grandpa: Okay, here's a $20. Get yourself a little treat too, g...

Little Miss Sunshine

It's never too late to die or get married.

Yiddish

If you have a problem, try to get help, you can get through it if you get help.

Maureen McCormick

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

Richard Virenque

When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.

Bobby Locke

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

Brian Wilson

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

Dick Cavett

Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

Jenson Button

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

James P. Hoffa

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

Alexandra Chando

Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be calm and pay close attention, for their wingbeats are barely audible. Loud breathing is enough to drown them out. ...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.

Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet

The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on the hill, and drink vodka, and wear black furs, and slurp borscht by the pail, like blood. Children may wear through their socks marching...

Deathless

Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The t...

The Darkest Evening of the Year

There were some things it was better not to know. They caused "metaphysical" anguish, for which there was as yet no remedy. When it was worried, the Tribe was inhibited and unable to act. It was very bad for everyone. The Tribe started to produce tox...

Empire of the Ants