Worst Things Quotes

Lincoln himself once said, "The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves." He fiercely believed in self-sufficiency, and in the maturity and character that struggles and hardships can bring. ~ John Wooden

I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back. ~ Steven Spielberg

I wish I had never taken naked pictures of myself on a phone to send to a girl. It's the worst thing ever. ~ Pete Wentz

The worst thing about our problems is that nobody has nothing to do with them ~ Mario Quintana

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather. ~ Marilynne Robinson

For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again. ~ James Frey

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you. ~ Stephen Rea

No matter what happens, never hold grudges. Grudges are the worst things in life. No matter if that grudge is justified, it's the poison that kills entire cities. ~ Pepper Winters

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

The more indifferent people are to politics, to the interests of others, the more obsessed they become with their own faces. The individualism of our time.

Not being able to fall asleep and not allowing oneself to move: the marital bed.

If high culture is coming to an end, it is also the end of you and your paradoxical ideas, because paradox as such belongs to high culture and not to childish prattle. You remind me of the young men who supported the Nazis or communists not out of cowardice or out of opportunism but out of an excess of intelligence. For nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of nonthought… You are the brilliant ally of your own gravediggers.

In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.

How to live in a world with which you disagree? How to live with people when you neither share their suffering nor their joys? When you know that you don't belong among them?... our century refuses to acknowledge anyone's right to disagree with the world…All that remains of such a place is the memory, the ideal of a cloister, the dream of a cloister…

Humor can only exist when people are still capable of recognizing some border between the important and the unimportant. And nowadays this border ha ~ Milan Kundera

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter. ~ John Updike

The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An art film means it got a lot of good reviews and nobody went. There is no such thing as a counter culture now. What used to be considered that is commercial now. ~ John Waters

I would say probably not being able to do what I want to do and not being completely fulfilled and happy. I don't know how that would manifest itself in a mirror. It's just that feeling of not being satisfied with my life would be the worst thing that could ever happen to me. ~ Karen Gillan

The worst things happens to be the best things in your life ~ Sandy Verma

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them? ~ Ray Bradbury

A pall fell over the room. A black shroud of disease and deathbeds and all the worst things from all the worst places. This mutant world, a tragic portmanteau, the unnatural marriage of two roots as different as could be. 'And do you, Ability take Vitriol to be your lawfully wedded suffix?' I wanted to scream objections to the unholy matrimony, but nothing came out. My mouth was clammy and dry, full of sand. Dr. Wilson smiled on, rambling about the benefits of Abilitol while my father nodded like a toy bobblehead immune to the deepening shadow in the room.

As they spoke, I caught my mother's eye. I could tell by her face that she felt the deepening shadow too.

Neither of us smiled.
Neither of us spoke.
We felt the shadow together. ~ David Arnold

Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my life, become just a part of the story that I've always been writing? ~ Rebecca Rosenblum

Of all the worst things I could do,
why, oh why, did I choose to be happy? ~ Someone

He wept when his father died and sobbed when he lost his mother, but way before that he told us only stupid men hide emotion. There's strength in being who you are and feeling what you feel and not giving a shit what people think. He said one of the worst things a man could be is inauthentic. He told us never to willfully break a woman's heart because there'd come a time when a woman would break ours and we'd feel what we'd made her feel and we wouldn't be able to live with the guilt. He loved us and he showed it. He was proud of us and he showed it." Johnny Gamble talking about his father ~ Kristen Ashley

If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played. ~ Daley Thompson

I think I look very healthy. You've already seen what I've eaten, so I couldn't be anorexic, and I wouldn't throw up if you paid me $1,000, so I'm not bulimic. Okay, for $1,000 I would stick my finger down my throat, but throwing up is the worst thing in the world. ~ Courteney Cox

The black people in these films seemed to love the worst things in life - love the dogs that rent their children apart, the tear gas that clawed at their lungs, the fire-hoses that tore off their clothes and tumbled them into the streets. They seemed to love the men who raped them, the women who cursed them, love the children who spat on them, the terrorists that bombed them. Why are they showing this to us? Why were only our heroes nonviolent? I speak not of the morality of nonviolence, but of the sense that blacks are in especial need of this morality. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now? ~ Nick Hornby

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life. ~ John Silber

I once thought losing my confidence was the worst thing that could happen; then I lost my faith. ~ Bobby Vee

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it. ~ Sarah Dessen

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen. ~ John Irving

The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible. ~ Steve Jobs

If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine. ~ George Lopez

The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong. ~ Paul Tournier

The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human. ~ Robert Greene

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed. ~ Cynthia Nixon

We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. BUt the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses: 'I am talking with you in order to persuade you.' No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attracting, not proselytizing. ~ Pope Francis

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid. ~ Juliette Lewis

If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good. ~ Randy Couture

One of the worst things that can happen to a man is for him to work and study hard in order to benefit others and make his own name and then be prevented by sickness, or perhaps death itself, from finally completing what he has begun ~ Giorgio Vasari

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking. ~ Jesse Eisenberg

My ideal meal would probably be the cheesiest pasta or pizza, followed by something creamy and chocolaty. I mean, just the worst things, really. ~ Ricky Gervais

Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when the wind fades. As I walked back through the town, past sleeping houses and dark inns, my mood swung from elation to doubt in the space of three brief breaths.
I had ruined everything. All the things I had said, things that seemed so clever at the time, were in fact the worst things a fool could say. Even now she was inside, breathing a sigh of relief to finally be rid of me.
But she had smiled. Had laughed.
She hadn't remembered our first meeting on the road from Tarbean. I couldn't have made that much of an impression on her.
'Steal me,' she had said.
I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people. ~ Alvin Ailey

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home. ~ Marilyn Monroe

No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all. ~ Peter Drucker

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it. ~ Paul Theroux

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies. ~ George Carlin

It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest. ~ Maya Angelou

You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable. ~ Chuck Knox

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach. ~ Erica Jong

The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels. ~ Joe Biden

Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn. ~ T. Boone Pickens

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work. ~ Roger Corman

... the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had. ~ Cheryl Strayed

The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off. ~ Catherynne M Valente

The footage that you're about to watch of China's dog-leather trade is one of the worst things I've ever seen. ~ Joaquin Phoenix

You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it's either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won't be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success. ~ Ben E. King

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be. ~ Anthony Powell

That was the worst thing about having a relationship with someone, even a pretend relationship. You opened up, let someone in, and when it was over, they had all the ammunition they needed to completely destroy you. ~ Sarra Manning

Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it. ~ Daniel Goleman

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts. ~ Bob Kerrey

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous. ~ Dave Brubeck

There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain. ~ James Frey

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen. ~ Carrie Fisher

In eternity people's lives could be altogether what they were and had been, not just the worst things they ever did, or the best things either. ~ Marilynne Robinson

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. ~ Jo Nesbo

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible. ~ Elie Wiesel

I hire people who can do their jobs and who will advise me of things they don't agree with. The worst thing you can do is get in a room with 14 people who say, "OK!" Then you really are making decisions about engineering and finance and other areas. ~ Roger Ailes

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

This might be the price of vengeance, she thinks. You have to spend the rest of your life living inside the memories of the worst things done to you so you can constantly justify what you did to avenge them. ~ Christopher Rice

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened. ~ Mark Twain

You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead. ~ Donald Hall

The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life. ~ Martin Seligman

The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else. ~ Brian Austin Green

When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way ~ Luke Haines

It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss. ~ Cass Sunstein

Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is ~ Edwin Louis Cole

If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier. ~ Esther Hicks

Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet. ~ Lauren DeStefano

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. ~ Annie Lennox

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment. ~ Mike Tyson

The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing. ~ Mariano Rajoy

I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make. ~ Domhnall Gleeson

Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He thought it was better than Finding Nemo and we had a fruitless argument which I'm sure made him acutely aware of the disadvantages of having a film critic for a dad. ~ A.O. Scott

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. ~ Ice Cube

Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things. ~ Peter Kreeft

The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology. ~ Ted Turner

The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place for it and it comes from insecurity. ~ Theo Hutchcraft

The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent. ~ Jerry Stiller

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally. ~ Paul Fussell

Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never have his own way-- or always to have it. She doesn't know which is th' worst. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

The best thing about me is that I am generally very honest - not hurtfully honest, but honest. The worst thing about me is that everybody can make me feel guilty. I feel responsible about things that don't even concern me. ~ Carolyn Jones

I tried to read that book again before I went to sleep. I didn't like that book, but I kept going for all the reasons a person hangs in with something that isn't good-you feel bad about not giving it a chance, you´ve already come too far to give up now, you believe it´s going to get better. When you're a person whose life has mostly brought good things, you believe in goodness. You believe that things will work out. Even the worst things will work out. You believe in a happy ending.
But you are naïve. The mostly good in your life has made you that way. You´ve spent so much time seeing the bright side that you don't even believe the other side exists. You are wrong about that.
I closed that book. I wouldn't open it again, I vowed. It was time to learn something. ~ Deb Caletti

There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do. ~ Gordon Brown

The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you ~ Seneca The Younger

As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character. ~ Matt Smith

I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit. ~ Steve Jobs

From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque. With this sadness it was different. I felt that I needed to nurture and protect it from people's understanding. I wanted Susy's sympathy because I wanted comfort and to feel less alone, and yet I also didn't want it - I didn't want my personal grief to be part of something universal right then. ~ Olivia Sudjic

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly. ~ Carlos Castaneda

A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program
players not learning. ~ Don Meyer

The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing. ~ David Lynch

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~ Charles M. Schulz

The worst things that people do to us always make us feel ashamed. The worst things that people do always strike at the part of us that wants to love the world. And a tiny part of the shame we feel, when we're violated, is shame at being human. ~ Gregory David Roberts