#bette

We all want to be the best at something. Trouble is, some people are only the best at being second best.
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— Jarod Kintz

#better #competition #desire #life #lose

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#bed #better #bring #come #dinner

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#discontentment #humanity #improvement #life #longing

It is a far far better thing that I do, than I have ever done. It is a far far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." protagonist, facing the guillotine, sacrificing himself for the sake of his love ↗

— Charles Dickens

#cities #dickens #rest #revolution #tale

Thirty three thousand, three hundred and thirty three things. That’s all I need to get by. Oh, and I guess I also need love. Better make that thirty three thousand, three hundred and thirty four. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#guess #love #things #love

she thinks I'm psycho cause I like to rhyme her name with things. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#joe-jonas #speak-now #taylor-swift #revenge

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. ↗

— Jim Henson

#been #better #difference #having #hope

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. ↗

— George Santayana

#appear #argument #better #function #make

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#choice #come #comfortable #english #feel

A bitter experience makes us a better person. ↗

— Saru Singhal

#experience #human-being #life #experience