Worst Quotes - Page 23

• Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Loneliness, Inspiration

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• A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

  Irving Bacheller

  Father, May, Poet

  Irving Bacheller (2008). “D'ri and I”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.

  Lars Ulrich

  Mom, Queens, Concerts

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• What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.

  Carlos Fuentes

  America, Doe

  Quoted in Time, 16 June 1986

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• It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

  Ngaio Marsh

  Heart, Taste, Speak

  Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Death in a White Tie: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #7”, p.58, Felony & Mayhem Press

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• The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

  Anne Rice

  Pandora

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.106, Ballantine Books

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• For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Found, Mets

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

  Sophocles

  Money, Home, Men

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• Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

  Jean Cocteau

  Fighting, Instinct, Absurdity

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Events, Cases, Inconsistency

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.73, Random House

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• I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

  Cecil Beaton

  Blue, Circles, Criticism

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• I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Dream, Father, Attorney

  "Gonzales Resigns as Attorney General". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick and Alex Cohen, www.npr.org. August 27, 2007.

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• The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Lying, Media, Example

  "Social media and opposition to blame for protests, says Turkish PM" by Constanze Letsch, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2013.

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• Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, Worst Nightmares, Doe

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• When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, People, Giving

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• The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

  Doris Lessing

  Superstitions, Tolerable

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• To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Apologizing, Boring, Vulgar

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.124, Pan Macmillan

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• The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Government, Spain, Can Do

  "Will Spain Be the Next Greece?". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow men (or 'to society') to represent the results of his study as simply, clearly and modestly as he can. The worst thing that intellectuals can do - the cardinal sin - is to try to set themselves up as great prophets vis-à-vis their fellow men and to impress them with puzzling philosophies. Anyone who cannot speak simply and clearly should say nothing and continue to work until he can do so.

  Karl Popper

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Opportunity

  "In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years".

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• Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

  Evo Morales

  Worst Enemy, Humanity, Capitalism

  "Bush Seeks Free Trade With Latin America". "All Things Considered" with Michele Kelemen, www.npr.org. September 24, 2008.

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• Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

  Harry Browne

  Simple, Government, Ideas

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• The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.

  India.Arie

  Love, Hate, Deep Thought

  Song: The Cure, 2009

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• Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other countries and other groups. This constant, often legitimate criticism of Israel for every one of its deviations, when coupled with the absence of legitimate criticism of others, creates the impression currently prevalent on university campuses and in the press that Israel is among the worst human rights violators in the world....it is not true, but if it is repeated often enough, it takes on a reality of its own.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Reality, Rights

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• If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world's worst investor.

  John Hagee

  World, Earth, Investment

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• The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive.

  Paul LePage

  Alive, Life Is, Newspapers

  "LePage slams newspapers, revs up GOP faithful during Auburn rally" By Scott Thistl, bangordailynews.com. August 28, 2014.

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