Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.
- Keith Ablow
You're more than Dauntless," he says in a low voice. "But if you want to be just like them, hurling yourself into ridiculous situations for no reason and retaliating against your enemies without any regard for what's ethical, go right ahead. I thought you were better than that, but maybe I was wrong.
- Veronica Roth
I point at a window to my left, and it explodes. Particles of glass rain over us. 'You'll have to do better than that,' I say.
- Veronica Roth
Everything was as it always should have been. I was in the arms of my best friend, the man I loved and the man I would spend the rest of my life with. It just didn't get any better than that.
- Monica Alexander
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
- Sherman Alexie
You're sad because you're sad.
It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.
Go see a shrink or take a pill,
or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll
you need to sleep.
Well, all children are sad
but some get over it.
Count your blessings. Better than that,
buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet.
Take up dancing to forget.
- Margaret Atwood
I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.
- Steve Maraboli
The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.
- Roseanne Barr
It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!
- Kathy Bates
A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.
- Anatoli Boukreev
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
- George Brett
Sex keeps me fit and healthy. What can be better than that? It's not about crazy diets or gym workouts.
- Kelly Brook
Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
- Chuck Palahniuk
All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
- Chuck Palahniuk
You predicted quick victory. Now it's going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don't you know any better than that by now?
- Jim Butcher
The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is because we are, in ways, powerful. But that does not make the race of humans (funanga) better than that of the dog or equine.
- Isobelle Carmody
I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.
- Stephen King
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 than to realize his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff?
- Stephen King
She's home. That's all. That's true love, I can't explain it any better than that.
- Jenny Colgan
We're married. I will protect you. I will die for you. Better than that. I will live for you.
- Mary Connealy
The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.
- Donald Knuth
This self-destructive behavior is becoming more and more mainstream in our society today, because we like to keep up with the Joneses. We don't consider the fact that the Joneses' kids are not going to the university, and they will not be able to retire in comfort. Life should be better than that.
- Celso Cukierkorn
The middle son gets a magic donkey. When you shout the word: "Bricklebrit!", it spews gold pieces out of...
And I quote:
... its front and back.
Yes, folks. Thing I Love #4: the Bricklebrit Donkey. You shout a word, and gold comes flying out its butt. Fairy tales don't get much better than that.
- Sarah Beth Durst
And Casaubon had done a wrong to Dorothea in marrying her. A man was bound to know himself better than that, and if he chose to grow grey crunching bones in a cavern, he had no business to be luring a girl into his companionship. 'It is the most horrible of virgin sacrifices,' said Will; and he painted to himself what were Dorothea's inward sorrows as if he had been writing a choric wail.
- George Eliot
Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.
- Sharon Gless
That was her mistake. She'd pinned her happiness to a teenage girl's chest. Idiot. The realization made her almost smile. She certainly knew better than that.
- Kristin Hannah
Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of the new arrival. Harry saw Sirius duck Bellatrix's jet of red light: he was laughing at her.
'Come on, you can do better than that!' he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room.
The second jet of light hit him squarely in the chest.
The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock.
- J K Rowling
They weren't true stories; they were better than that.
- Alice Hoffman
And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.
- Eva Ibbotson
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
- Imran Khan
Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out.
- My Bestfriend's Girl -
- Dorothy Koomson
You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.
- John Kricfalusi
If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.
- Steve Lacy
I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?
- Richard Marx
Are you serious?" he asked, pulling the bottle from my mouth. When I didn't recant, he leaned toward me. "First of all...I have standards. I've never been with an ugly woman. Ever. Second of all, I wanted to sleep with you. I thought about throwing you over my couch fifty different ways, but I haven't because I don't see you that way anymore. It's not that I'm not attracted to you, I just think you're better than that.
- Jamie Mcguire
First of all, I have standards. I've never been with an ugly woman. Ever. Second of all, I wanted to sleep with you. I thought about throwing you over my couch fifty different ways, but I haven't because I don't see you that way anymore. It's not that I'm not attracted to you, I just think you're better than that. - Travis
- Jamie Mcguire
Sell stupid somewhere else--there's nothing better than that face!
- Stephenie Meyer
I was an empty shell. Like a vacant housecondemnedfor months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in better repair. But that was alljust the one small piece. He deserved better than thatbetter than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order.
- Stephenie Meyer
In the end, the only way is to be better than that person who let you down... and better than the monster you used to be..
- Paul Nat
Perhaps we believe that anything is better than that which we all fear the most. Loneliness. Abandonment. But once you accept that fact that you have always been alone, and will always be, then your perspective can being to change. You can become aware of the small kindnesses, the little comforts. Be grateful for them. And with time you will understand that there is nothing to fear. And much to be grateful for.
- Linda Olsson
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
- Robin Wright Penn
You'll have to do better than that measly steel blade to make a dent in me.
- Amy Plum
And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.
- Buddy Rich
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
- Buddy Rich
I'm not asking you for a second chance. I know better than that. But you've got no right to ask me to settle for sex then expect me to give up the one thing that's kept me going. I gave you up, now I'm taking what's left."
"You didn't give me up," she tossed back. "You never wanted me."
"I never wanted anything the way I wanted you. I loved you." He dragged her painfully to her toes. "I've always loved you. I cut my own heart out when I sent you away.
- Nora Roberts
Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.
- Seal
You're better than you think," I whispered. "I didn't realize it when I was little, didn't understand that look in your eyes, why you always looked so sad, but I get it now. Someone got inside of you and messed you all up, made up down and left right so now you think you're shit when you're not even close. So you need to listen to me when I tell you that you are better than you think. You're even better than that. To me, you're the best."
- Eva to Deuce (Undeniable)
- Madeline Sheehan
Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that.
- Teddy Sheringham
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
- Imelda Staunton
It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.
- Donald E Westlake
- Keith Ablow
You're more than Dauntless," he says in a low voice. "But if you want to be just like them, hurling yourself into ridiculous situations for no reason and retaliating against your enemies without any regard for what's ethical, go right ahead. I thought you were better than that, but maybe I was wrong.
- Veronica Roth
I point at a window to my left, and it explodes. Particles of glass rain over us. 'You'll have to do better than that,' I say.
- Veronica Roth
Everything was as it always should have been. I was in the arms of my best friend, the man I loved and the man I would spend the rest of my life with. It just didn't get any better than that.
- Monica Alexander
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
- Sherman Alexie
You're sad because you're sad.
It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.
Go see a shrink or take a pill,
or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll
you need to sleep.
Well, all children are sad
but some get over it.
Count your blessings. Better than that,
buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet.
Take up dancing to forget.
- Margaret Atwood
I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.
- Steve Maraboli
The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.
- Roseanne Barr
It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!
- Kathy Bates
A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.
- Anatoli Boukreev
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
- George Brett
Sex keeps me fit and healthy. What can be better than that? It's not about crazy diets or gym workouts.
- Kelly Brook
Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
- Chuck Palahniuk
All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
- Chuck Palahniuk
You predicted quick victory. Now it's going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don't you know any better than that by now?
- Jim Butcher
The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is because we are, in ways, powerful. But that does not make the race of humans (funanga) better than that of the dog or equine.
- Isobelle Carmody
I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.
- Stephen King
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 than to realize his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff?
- Stephen King
She's home. That's all. That's true love, I can't explain it any better than that.
- Jenny Colgan
We're married. I will protect you. I will die for you. Better than that. I will live for you.
- Mary Connealy
The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.
- Donald Knuth
This self-destructive behavior is becoming more and more mainstream in our society today, because we like to keep up with the Joneses. We don't consider the fact that the Joneses' kids are not going to the university, and they will not be able to retire in comfort. Life should be better than that.
- Celso Cukierkorn
The middle son gets a magic donkey. When you shout the word: "Bricklebrit!", it spews gold pieces out of...
And I quote:
... its front and back.
Yes, folks. Thing I Love #4: the Bricklebrit Donkey. You shout a word, and gold comes flying out its butt. Fairy tales don't get much better than that.
- Sarah Beth Durst
And Casaubon had done a wrong to Dorothea in marrying her. A man was bound to know himself better than that, and if he chose to grow grey crunching bones in a cavern, he had no business to be luring a girl into his companionship. 'It is the most horrible of virgin sacrifices,' said Will; and he painted to himself what were Dorothea's inward sorrows as if he had been writing a choric wail.
- George Eliot
Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.
- Sharon Gless
That was her mistake. She'd pinned her happiness to a teenage girl's chest. Idiot. The realization made her almost smile. She certainly knew better than that.
- Kristin Hannah
Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of the new arrival. Harry saw Sirius duck Bellatrix's jet of red light: he was laughing at her.
'Come on, you can do better than that!' he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room.
The second jet of light hit him squarely in the chest.
The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock.
- J K Rowling
They weren't true stories; they were better than that.
- Alice Hoffman
And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.
- Eva Ibbotson
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
- Imran Khan
Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out.
- My Bestfriend's Girl -
- Dorothy Koomson
You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.
- John Kricfalusi
If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.
- Steve Lacy
I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?
- Richard Marx
Are you serious?" he asked, pulling the bottle from my mouth. When I didn't recant, he leaned toward me. "First of all...I have standards. I've never been with an ugly woman. Ever. Second of all, I wanted to sleep with you. I thought about throwing you over my couch fifty different ways, but I haven't because I don't see you that way anymore. It's not that I'm not attracted to you, I just think you're better than that.
- Jamie Mcguire
First of all, I have standards. I've never been with an ugly woman. Ever. Second of all, I wanted to sleep with you. I thought about throwing you over my couch fifty different ways, but I haven't because I don't see you that way anymore. It's not that I'm not attracted to you, I just think you're better than that. - Travis
- Jamie Mcguire
Sell stupid somewhere else--there's nothing better than that face!
- Stephenie Meyer
I was an empty shell. Like a vacant housecondemnedfor months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in better repair. But that was alljust the one small piece. He deserved better than thatbetter than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order.
- Stephenie Meyer
In the end, the only way is to be better than that person who let you down... and better than the monster you used to be..
- Paul Nat
Perhaps we believe that anything is better than that which we all fear the most. Loneliness. Abandonment. But once you accept that fact that you have always been alone, and will always be, then your perspective can being to change. You can become aware of the small kindnesses, the little comforts. Be grateful for them. And with time you will understand that there is nothing to fear. And much to be grateful for.
- Linda Olsson
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
- Robin Wright Penn
You'll have to do better than that measly steel blade to make a dent in me.
- Amy Plum
And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.
- Buddy Rich
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
- Buddy Rich
I'm not asking you for a second chance. I know better than that. But you've got no right to ask me to settle for sex then expect me to give up the one thing that's kept me going. I gave you up, now I'm taking what's left."
"You didn't give me up," she tossed back. "You never wanted me."
"I never wanted anything the way I wanted you. I loved you." He dragged her painfully to her toes. "I've always loved you. I cut my own heart out when I sent you away.
- Nora Roberts
Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.
- Seal
You're better than you think," I whispered. "I didn't realize it when I was little, didn't understand that look in your eyes, why you always looked so sad, but I get it now. Someone got inside of you and messed you all up, made up down and left right so now you think you're shit when you're not even close. So you need to listen to me when I tell you that you are better than you think. You're even better than that. To me, you're the best."
- Eva to Deuce (Undeniable)
- Madeline Sheehan
Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that.
- Teddy Sheringham
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
- Imelda Staunton
It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.
- Donald E Westlake
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