Worst Quotes - Page 11

• Come with me." "Come with you? To Pandemonium? To the Void? And here I thought that my invitation to summer in New Jersey was the worst I had ever received.

  Cassandra Clare

  Summer, Void, Jersey

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations.

  Jean Lorrain

  Real, Men, Law

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• Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.

  Larry Niven

  Blessing, Worst Enemy, Boredom

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• It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

  John Wilmot

  Men, World, Very Good

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• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

  Pearl Bailey

  Inspirational, Cheating, Self

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• I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

  Walt Whitman

  War, Ems, Saws

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• We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from the worst consequences of war? And when hostilities cease, how can we take the war out of them? By eliminating landmines, controlling the sale of small arms, raising the age of recruitment ... are all essential measures. By reuniting children with their families and providing programs of physical and psychological rehabilitation.

  Landon Pearson

  Children, War, Age

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• ...180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous.

  Juan Somavia

  Children, Kids, Acceptance

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• James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Writing, Verbs, Limits

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• The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry
  The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy
  The books that people talk about we never can recall
  And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  E. O. Wilson

  War, Loss, Government

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• It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Thinking, Player

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• Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so can lead to poor decisions and invites people to take advantage of you. Instead, be a rational optimist who takes the good with the bad, in hopes of the good ultimately outweighing the bad, and with the understanding that being pessimistic about everything accomplishes nothing. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best - the former makes you sensible, and the latter makes you an optimist.

  Dale Carnegie

  Optimistic, Poor Decisions, Accomplish Nothing

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• "Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is a creative process. It's not so much a genre, but a way of expression.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Creative, Musician, Jazz

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• The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Artist, Evil

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

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• Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.

  Lauren Graham

  Men

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• He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box.

  K.J. Parker

  Girl, Pain, Children

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• Her smile faded. “Do you know the worst thing about it? I forgot him. Daemon was a friend, and I forgot him. That Winsol, before I was…he gave me a silver bracelet. I don’t know what happened to it. I had a picture of him. I don’t know what happened to that either. And then he gave everything he had to help me, and when it was done, everyone walked away from him as if he didn’t matter.

  Anne Bishop

  Done, Matter, Helping

  Anne Bishop (2003). “The black jewels trilogy”, Roc

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• A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Soul, Half

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Positive, Happiness, Success

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• Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong,
  My love shall in my verse ever live young.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Young, Despite

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 19.

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• Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspirational, Firsts, Photograph

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• The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, Self Esteem, Loneliness

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• The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

  Johnny Carson

  Birthday, Christmas, People

  "Late-Night TV Icon Johnny Carson Dies", abcnews.go.com. January 23, 2005.

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