Worst Quotes - Page 24

• Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse.

  J. P. Donleavy

  "Are you listening Rabbi Löw". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1987.

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• Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great depression, with 40 million Americans dealing with student loans, with millions of people working full-time at minimum wage and still living in poverty, with the big banks getting bigger and the workers getting poorer, and seniors struggling to make ends meet, Republicans in Washington have decided the most important thing for them to focus on is how to deny women access to birth control.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Senior, Struggle, People

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• The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

  Alistair Darling

  Thinking, Years, Long

  "The worst of times for Alistair, but at least he's nobody's puppet" by William Keegan, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.

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• I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big, toothy grin. It's the Sambo of all other offensive mascots. I have never seen a Native American smile that hard before, not even at a casino opening.

  Wanda Sykes

  Baseball, Native American, Thinking

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• 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

  Things In Life, Psychology, Quality

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• Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues.

  Ward Churchill

  Children, School, Talking

  "The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools". Book by Ward Churchill, November 2004.

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

  Swizz Beatz

  Done, Haircuts, My Own

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• Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Thinking, Way

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• Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.

  Robert Greene

  Enemy, Realms, Transformed

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2015

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• I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.

  Maurice Ravel

  Littles, Composer, Quantity

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• The worst is over without a doubt.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Doubt, Great Depression

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• Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never even apply.

  Paul Jacob

  Political, Currents, Political Systems

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• We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.

  Gerald Warner

  Past, Opportunity, Jail

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• Turning to politicians is the worst way to solve a problem.

  Jim Babka

  Political, Way, Problem

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• But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.

  Barack Obama

  Ideas, People, Empathy

  "Obama Holds a Town Hall in Istanbul". Speech in a Town Hall, Istanbul, Turkey, www.washingtonpost.com. April 7, 2009.

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• If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.

  Mark Lynas

  Mass Extinction, Two, Humanity

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• The worst case scenario sees the Amazon rainforest burning, huge amounts of methane being released by Siberian peat bogs and so on - by the time today's six year olds are 60, such a scenario would see global warming already out of control.

  Mark Lynas

  Years, Worst Case Scenario, Climate

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• Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good. For true listeners know that if you are bad-tempered it does not mean that you are always so. They don't love you just when you are nice; they love all of you.

  Brenda Ueland

  Nice, Love You, Mean

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• The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.

  S. J. Perelman

  New York, Hollywood, Pariahs

  "Strictly from Hunger". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 47, 1992.

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• Today, rather than looking for the worst in people, I encourage you to look for what's best within them.

  Robin Sharma

  People, Looks, Today

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 05, 2011

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• Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes which cover the cliffs, the filth and noise of Camp 4 (the climbers' campground), and worst of all, the multitudes of tourists which abound during the weekends and summer months.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Summer, Weekend, Climbing

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• Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart.

  Liam Payne

  Girl, Hate, Heart

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• And they say
  She's in the class A Team
  Stuck in her daydream
  Been that way since eighteen, but lately,
  Her face seems
  Slowly sinking, wasting
  Crumbling like pastries
  And they scream
  The worst things in life come free to us
  Cos we're just under the upperhand
  Go mad for a couple grams
  And she don't want to go outside tonight
  And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
  Or sells love to another man
  It's too cold outside
  For angels to fly
  Angels to fly

  Ed Sheeran

  Couple, Team, Angel

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• Its... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. Its the worst thing youll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again.

  Michael Bay

  Horse, Thinking, Mind

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• If you make the wrong decision, you make the wrong decision. That's all there is to it. There are few guarantees in life. One of them is that you will make lots of mistakes The worst thing you can do is wimp out and spend your life in suspended animation refusing to make a choice because it may not be a perfect one.

  Nicholas Lore

  Mistake, Decisions You Make, Perfect One

  "The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success". Book by Nicholas Lore, January 5, 1998.

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