Top 1200 Worst Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.

Books and beer are the best and worst defense.

The worst dog gets the best bone.

I've never met a client who wants to be the worst.

On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.

The worst thing you can do to a dictator is laugh at him.

Scientists themselves readily admit that they do not fully understand the consequences of our many-faceted assault upon the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life in all its biological diversity. But things could also turn out to be worse than the current scientific best guess. In military affairs, policy has long been based on the dictum that we should be prepared for the worst case. Why should it be so different when the security is that of the planet and our long-term future?

One thing we know: Things will become even more destabilized if we don't step up Sino-U.S. cooperation. If you want to envisage a worst-case scenario, it is that Putin reveals step by step the inner weaknesses of the West, particularly in Europe, and the Chinese see in that an opportunity for emulation in the Far East, and then step by step through a gradual process we will be witnessing the emergence of Sino-Russian partnership in favor of a drastic change in the global balance of power.

It's fun to be debaucherous and the worst version of yourself.

The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved one fighting an illness, to losing a job, being betrayed by somebody you trust, all parts of the human condition. No one is exempt from those things.

All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things.

I'm on every worst-dressed list imaginable.

Man is his own worst enemy.

This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best.

My worst haircuts have been the ones where I've done my own.

My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.'

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

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

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Sometimes you're your own worst critic.

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.

Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.

Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and the worst are only approximations of those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself: Who are those that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quan?tum of congruities and incongruities.

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things like slitting a baby's throat, mistaking it for a baby goat. I'd have nightmares of other islands stretching away from mine, infinities of islands, islands spawning islands, like frogs' eggs turning into polliwogs of islands, knowing that I had to live on each and every one, eventually, for ages, registering their flora, their fauna, their geography.

Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.

Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

My siblings and I have got the worst teeth in Britain.

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.

Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

I hate working out; it's the worst thing to do.

What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every flyer knows. That there is this special world in which we dwell that's not marked by boundaries, it's not a map. We're not hedged about with walls and desks. So often in an office the very worst thing that can happen is you could drop your pencil. Out there's a reminder that are a lot worse things, and a lot greater rewards.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

The absolute worst thing you can do in a scene is be apathetic.

Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.