But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.
John Green
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ALESSIA CARA It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
TOM STOPPARD It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA We had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with ...
JOHN GREEN You cant do better, be better or have better than you believe you can.
DANIEL GILMAN Knowing your ignorance is far better than knowing what you know! Understanding the path and will of ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
ATTRIBUTED TO MAYA AANGELOU Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
UNSOURCED, MISATTRIBUTED TO MAYA ANGELOU Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.
PHILIP ZIMBARDO He did that at our apartment. John, you know better!
ADAM BRUHNKE Being aimless is far better than being useless.
SUPERNA BATHEJA ... that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we have to forgive to survive in the labyr...
JOHN GREEN I know I'm a better person for knowing Jeremy.
PAT HEWITT As I thought
about that, I had
to wonder: What will we
know better about tomorrow? ELLEN HOPKINS When we’re young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know peop...
LOUISE ERDRICH I think we can breathe and relax a little now. I know I will sleep better knowing we won.
ALEX CINTRON Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
LILITH SAINTCROW John is our biggest weapon, but he's a much better player than he demonstrated tonight.
CHARLES RAMSEY ...but we know better now, don't we?
RODNEY LOVELL There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces toge...
FEIST The more Dick Cheney is out there the better it is for John Kerry -- the better it is for Democrats,
TERRY MCAULIFFE We need to do a better job as an office of knowing what information we have and letting people know ...
ANDY WELCH I probably sleep better not knowing what the bills are. I'd just rather not know.
BOB JANES I'm pleased with the offensive and defensive lines. Those areas seem to be better than they were las...
BILL MURPHY I don't know how else to say it: I'm a better person for knowing him. The world was a better place w...
LISA KNAPP It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.
JIM HINCKLEY Good... Better... Best never let it rest until my good is better and my better is my best.
TRUMAINE M. PRESSLEY Don't just look; see! There is always an opportunity to make something better! There is always a bet...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably a...
HUGH LAURIE No one is any better than you, but you are no better than anyone else until you do something to prov...
DONALD LAIRD Knowing that I make somebody's day better is all that matters at the end of the day.
RAVEN SYMONE The difference is,
Now I cant call you anymore…
I cant hear your calming voice,
I c...
JJM I think there's a lot of similarities, but John manages his temper a lot better.
ADAM PINE Good, better, best.
Never rest
Until good be better
And better best.
MOTHER GOOSE It was a uniform green last year, as they are in Australia. But this colour we call 'U.S. Open blue'...
DAVID NEWMAN Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We'll take the win, but we know we can play better.
CANDICE BRITTON John is like Michael Jordan. He makes all the players around him better.
DICK COOK We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
DORA RUSSELL She's certainly much more sexy than John Spencer is. She's got a better story.
HANK SHEINKOPF Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.
CAROLINE LAWRENCE John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.
HANK GREEN I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
JOHN GREEN In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich lif...
JOHN GREEN It's turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You're trying to find the turtle at the bottom of th...
JOHN GREEN Let's put it this way- if The Fault in Our Stars was a person I would marry them. Will Grayson, WIll...
EMMA CRAPE Spoiler alert. Mayhem lives.
HAZEL GRACE LANCASTER We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth
JOHN GREEN She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.
JOHN GREEN People were created to be loved.
Things were created to be used.
The reason why the world ...
JOHN GREEN Business will get better, but we won't know when it does
HENRY FORD We are better served by throwing away the key. The victims' families . . . probably have been told, ...
ABE BONOWITZ The kids did well, but we know we can and will do better.
JACK FOSTER An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better o...
PAUL LYNDE It's very treacherous. ... It's better to wait until conditions are better.
DAN ATKIN We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them
DORA RUSSELL I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know...
HOWARD DEAN He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, a...
JOHN GREEN It is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart! -John Bunyan.
JOHN BUNYAN I'm not sure where they are headed, but I just feel better knowing that they are OK.
JAMARCUS RUSSELL Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Knowing that a team is better than you and they beat you, you can live with that. We just beat ourse...
JAYSON SWAIN I don't want to mention names, but I know we can play better.
CARLOS SILVA Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious thing we have,
Not knowing them until we know th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So we're better off to have damaged green vines than we would be to have a dead frozen vine.
TOMMY LEE This is the worst thing ever. If we would have lost and known they were a better team we could handl...
HAZAEL REYNOSA Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better tha...
STEPHEN PAGLIUCA I think we are in with a better chance, but Slovakia is certainly a team that we know nothing about.
DAVID ALBELDA I know we can do better,
GIFFORD MILLER It is better to deal with the devil we know than the devil we don’t know.
VIKRANT PARSAI after a break-up people always claim that things will get better, and in fact they do... but not bec...
JOHNNY MORPHINE We can all make music individually. But we are smart enough to know that the music we make together ...
PETER BUCK Our goal is to play better than their defense, ... That's most important. And that's every game. We ...
ANTWAN PEEK I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, ...
NICHOLAS HASLAM We couldn't justify investing in improvements knowing we were going to have to move away. So when we...
STEPHEN KINTNER The deal is we want to keep getting better. We have to keep working hard from now until next season.
BRETT NORRIS We wanted corporate to know we expected better.
DOROTHY PARKER I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts/
JOHN GREEN I felt better just knowing I was on the way home.
AMY HAYES When one starts knowing himself better, he cares least of others.
ANUJ SOMANY People have learned their lesson and know better how to prepare. We're not waiting until the last mi...
ANDREA YERGER Even before we know the precise results of the analyses (on the products seized), it was better to a...
NICOLAS SARKOZY It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with...
JOHN RUSKIN It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with...
STACEY CHARTER It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with...
SWEDISH PROVERB “It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love w...
ASHISH KUMAR You know how John Madden diagrams where your hips have to be above the green barrier? I think our gu...
ADAM BURISH Our kids are a lot better than two years ago and better than last year. But until somebody can prove...
DEAN BRANSTETTER Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we...
MING-DAO DENG I sure do think it is an emergent form, but I also despair of reading online until screen quality is...
GEOFF RYMAN It's a number we were very proud of, but we know the potential is there for an even better season th...
MIKE MCCARROLL I know Prairie View isn't a towering team, but we rebounded the ball much better.
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Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excit...
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"R...
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'Right, i...
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I smile...
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"Well maybe you're a ninja," I said
"You're just...
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She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the t...
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"Augustus," I said.
"I am," he said. H...
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JOHN GREEN What's that?"
"The laundry basket?"
"No, next to it."
"I don't see anything next to i...
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JOHN GREEN You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
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JOHN GREEN AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.
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JOHN GREEN I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...
JOHN GREEN There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly lear...
JOHN GREEN Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�...
JOHN GREEN I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...
JOHN GREEN If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,...
JOHN GREEN If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
JOHN GREEN I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like yo...
JOHN GREEN Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
JOHN GREEN Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
JOHN GREEN