Better Place Quotes - Page 11

• And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

  James Lee Burke

  Artist, Somewhere Else, World

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• He moved toward her and cupped her face in his hands. "You are so beautiful that sometimes it hurts just to look at you. Your eyes are a thousand shades of brown and gold with hints of blue and green." He touched her cheekbones with thumbs. "Your freckles are like the girl-next-door fantasy brought to life. Your mouth is sexy and soft and when you smile, the world seems like a better place. Swear you'll never change anything. Swear it.

  Susan Mallery

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

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• Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Mean, Lunch, Missing

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.66, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Mind, World

  Howard Gardner (2006). “The Development and Education of the Mind: The Selected Works of Howard Gardner”, p.166, Routledge

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• You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strength, Country, Believe

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• I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

  Carl Hoppe

  Life, Strength, Integrity

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• The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• In the whole world, there was no better place than being wrapped in him.

  Ilona Andrews

  World, Whole, Whole World

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• We don’t do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are.

  Derek Landy

  Satisfaction, Credit, World

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• I will make this world a better place, whether they like it or not. That’s the fun of being Queen.

  Amanda Hocking

  Queens, Fun, World

  Amanda Hocking (2012). “Ascend”, p.181, Pan Macmillan

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• If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place." -- Marmee, Little Women

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Kindness, Lying

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• People never really died. They only went on to a better place, to wait a while for their loved ones to join them. And then once more they went back to the world, in the same way they had arrived the first time around.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  People, Waiting, World

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• I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

  Pete Doherty

  Mean, Thinking, Intellectual

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• It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.

  Veronica Roth

  Liars, Parent, Matter

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.35, HarperCollins UK

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• All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trying, Shooting, World

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Fifth Elephant: (Discworld Novel 24)”, p.452, Random House

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

  Winston Churchill

  Giving, Gone, Noble

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.90, Da Capo Press

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• But my hands are in the right place." "Heart," I corrected. "Your heart's in the right place." "Yeah, but my hands are in an even better place." And so they were.

  Rachel Vincent

  Heart, Hands, Yeah

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.292, Harlequin

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• The Gamma paused. “You have a crazed werewolf in your wine cellar?” “You can think of a better place to stash him?” “What about the wine?

  Gail Carriger

  Wine, Thinking, Werewolf

  Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.136, Hachette UK

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• Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one.

  Simone Elkeles

  Religious, Quests, Earth

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, Simon and Schuster

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• Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.

  Nonie Darwish

  Blessed, Dedication, Self

  Address at the Feat of Tabernacles convention, Jerusalem, 2007.

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• Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism; and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and often mystical propensities it will never, except in short periods of disillusionment, appeal to the young and all those others who believe that some changes are desirable if this world is to become a better place.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Intellectual, Elements

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, 1944.

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• I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.

  Ben Harper

  Hands, Two, World

  Song: With My Own Two Hands, Album: Diamonds On The Inside, 2003

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• If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

  Francis Parkman

  Apology, Way, Fruit

  Francis Parkman (1960). “Letters of Francis Parkman”

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• This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Strong, Powerful

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.

  John Mearsheimer

  Powerful, Europe, Roots

  John J. Mearsheimer (2002). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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