Better Off Quotes

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

If you had all the world's information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you'd be better off.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.

A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I've been called by a million names all my life. I don't want a name. I'm better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.

The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

You're generally better off sticking with what you know.

Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

You are better off being homeless than being me.

You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources—not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.

If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd be better off turning the barley into beer and letting the pig starve.

A lot of people just think that that's unreasonable or preposterous. But you know, if everybody chose to do it God's way, the world would be a lot better off.

The better your base is, and the more you know from experience, the better off you'll be when you try and make the big move.

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.

It would be helpful if everybody would focus on getting the right outcome from Brexit. An aggressive stand by the EU will only feed into those who promote the narrative of "better off out".

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?

America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago.

For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.

With this ranking system, the more you play, the better off you are.

We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.

Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

Leave it to you, Bella. Anyone else would be better off when the vampires left town. But you have to start hanging out with the first monsters you can find.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

He loved her enough to know she was better off without him

Flea brain, got a hole in her head. If she wasn't good looking, she'd be better off dead.