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I think George Mitchell was good for Maryland in the sense that he helped me get elected. It doesn't get any better than that from here on. — Barbara Mikulski

Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was. — Charles Dickens

reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was and the present worse than it is. — Season Vining

It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others. — Linda McMahon

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. — Jim Rohn

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. — Sally Ride

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake. — Richard Paul Evans

Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes.
That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it. — Sarah Rees Brennan

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly — Leo Tolstoy

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others. — Ralph Ellison

I subscribed to the general theory that the worst room in the best hotel was better than the best room in a second-rate hotel. — Beatriz Williams

The truth was that in the end, sad felt better than rage - a lot better. But rage came easier. Sad felt like the world was ending. (150) — Monica Holloway

Going to the trial was very tiring for me, but I did enjoy it better than sitting in a jail cell. That could be very monotonous. — Richard Ramirez

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true. — Daniel Wallace

The perfection of that silent moment was somehow better than a million mouthfulls promising forever. — Jessica Gadziala

The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all. — Spike Milligan

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head. — Rick Riordan

It was better than the fantasy, Rook. I'd just like you to know that. — J.A. Huss

It's the closet thing to bliss
I've ever experienced.
It's even better than performing and
I didn't know that was possible. — Kristen Proby

Was it not better to wear it, do it, live it, than suppress it? That only leads, on an international scale of course, to war. — Larry Kramer

This was a practical application of the principle that a half-feigned and fictitious faith is better than no faith at all. — Thomas Hardy

I actually feel, in a lot of ways, that I'm in better shape than I was when I was 30. — Tom Bergeron

When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically. — Stephen Bruner

But Robert was so much better than any of the other men Dougless had dated that she forgave him his little quirks - most — Jude Deveraux

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor. — Jonathan Frakes

You look ... better than before."
Was that a compliment? I could have sworn Lucien gave Tamlin an encouraging nod.
"And you hair is ... clean. — Sarah J. Maas

I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year. — Andy Roddick

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. — George Savile

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. — Glenda Jackson

That held for a few minutes, until the head of Budget pointed out that SA was not much better than SS. — Stieg Larsson

It was a protein rush to the cortex, a clean, three-ingredient high, eaten with the hands. Could anything be better than that? As — Anthony Bourdain

You have been good for me. What more could anyone ask for? I'm a better person than I was before we got together. That's your doing. — Kent Haruf

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won. — Betty Cuthbert

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation. — Stieg Larsson

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it. — G.K. Chesterton

It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me. — Travis Barker

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth. — Jodi Picoult

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid. — Chris Bauer

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all. — Will Durant

...it was better to believe in God and to be wrong than to believe that there was no God and to be right. — Foreli Kramarik

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy. — Jimmy Piersall

I was sick with desire; that sickness better than health. — C.S. Lewis

Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance. — Michael Jensen

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that. — John Darnielle

Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it. — Lee Iacocca

I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people. — Walter Schloss

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. — Leonard Cohen

Dnt Think About Past , THat It Was Better Than Present ,
Always Think About Future, to Make It Better Than Past .... — Rajbir Singh

You know i was just thinking that it's better to die trying [to live your bravest dream] than to live sleeping. — Robin Sharma

It is better to be the cause of an effect rather than be the effect that was caused. — Richard Machowicz

She thought for a minute about going back, but decided that maybe being wet on a sort-of adventure was better than being dry and bored for sure. — Ellen Klages

I tried to see that every picture was better-looking than the person. — James Van Der Zee

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh. — David Nicholls

I thought seeing him naked was the highlight of my life. That suit was better than sex. — Nicole Castle

I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was. — Shayne Ward

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension. — Herschel Walker

I had finally learned that it was better to be alone than to be in a relationship that degraded my soul. — Chrissy Moon

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough. — Andrew Davidson

No time better than the present,' I always say. Or was that, 'Nothing is better than a present'? I forget. — Kaza Kingsley

That was what I wanted: someone who knew me better than I knew myself, someone who knew all the worst parts of me, yet still loved me. — L.A. Fiore

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself. — Lauren Myracle

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change. — Jacque Fresco

I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one. — Nawal El Saadawi

MarkBaynard: I figured out in the first grade that it was better to crack a joke than somebody's skull. — Teresa Medeiros

I know you deserve better than me. You think I don't know that? But if there was any woman made for me ... it's you. — Jamie McGuire

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair. — Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes love didn't make sense. And that was okay. It was far better to know love and accept love than try to understand it. — Rachel Higginson

How could she ever doubt that he loved her? When loving her was what he did better than all the things he did beautifully? — Rainbow Rowell

A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths. — Faraaz Kazi

[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one. — Plutarch

In this age of ours it's hard to say with certainty that having lived was better than not having been born in the first place. — Kenzaburo Oe

He was beautiful in a way that hurt me, but it was the sweetest pain I ever knew, better even than the scars I took on my naming day. — Ann Aguirre

He helps make me be the best person I can be. that's how I knew that he was the one. I'm better with him than I was without him. — Selena Laurence

He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was. — Flannery O'Connor

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto. — Ozzy Osbourne

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing. — Claes Oldenburg

The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. — Maggie Stiefvater

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. — W. Somerset Maugham

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned. — Kurt Fuller

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own. — Bruce Springsteen

It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others. — Jodi Picoult

Do not say that the past was better than the present. Virtues are what make the good times and vices that go bad. — Augustine Of Hippo

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila — Mark Salzman

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see. — Myla Goldberg

I'd donated everything I was to those I loved. I would die for them. I would survive for them. And nothing was better than that. Nothing. — Pepper Winters

What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty? — Dorothea Benton Frank

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round. — David Dunn

Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right. — Rebecca Gibney

I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again. — Belinda Alexandra

I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me. — Dennis Wholey

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing. — Diogenes Laertius

Was there anything better than to be wanted? Was that all anyone really needed? — Liane Moriarty

He had known instinctively that it was always better to tell a partial truth with a willing aspect than to tell a perfect truth in a defensive way. — Eleanor Catton

It was a work of art. It was better than that. It was a work of craft. — Terry Pratchett

Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have- of all my mistakes,that was my biggest. — Louise Candlish

I used to laugh at that old wheeze about a man wanting his son to be better than he was, but as I get older it seems less funny and more true. — Stephen King

I've seen it all before. Now that it's over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could be mine. — Drake

Better for sure than Lotto had been. Well, she knew what that was like. — Lauren Groff

I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh. — Alan Bradley

Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there ... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay — Alexander Lukashenko