#bet

No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#break #could #done #get #gold

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#better #dangerous #dispense #easily #evil

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#better #continually #god #make #men

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#congress #control #extremely #greater #gulf

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#any #better #enormous #enough #group

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

#between #compose #elements #enables #found

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff. ↗

— William McFee

#bluff #choose #collateral #efficiency #fame

I do think it's possible to change for the better. ↗

— Mandy Moore

#change #i #i do #possible #think

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. ↗

— Golda Meir

#better #her #job #man #much

Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#aggression #arab #arab countries #between #change