#bette

You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#apply #because #better #get #having

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#baltimore #being #being honest #beloved #better

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ. ↗

— Frances Wright

#differ #err #experiment #fact #ground

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time. ↗

— W. G. Sebald

#before #better #eyes #forget #germany

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#broken #expectations #hopes #improved #men

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved. ↗

— George Crabbe

#better #love #loved #nothing #than

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous. ↗

— Yvonne Craig

#direct #growing #growing up #had #i

When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better. ↗

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

#golf #good #i #jack #lee

I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does. ↗

— Bob Crosby

#bing #brother #does #his #i

It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen. ↗

— Johnny Damon

#afraid #better #comfortable #feeling #getting