Worst Quotes - Page 27

• If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Worst Enemy, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.1, New Riders

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• I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Dust, Cameras

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• Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.

  Margaret Drabble

  Journey, Deception, May

  Margaret Drabble (2012). “The Needle's Eye”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

  Lawrence Summers

  Banking Crisis, America, People

  "Larry Summers on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 8, 2009.

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• The worst is likely to be behind us.

  Henry Paulson

  Behinds

  "Paulson: The Worst Is Behind Us", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2008.

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• As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Race, People, Mind

  "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror". Book by Thomas Ligotti, 2010.

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• And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Knowing, People, Puppets

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• American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

  Diane Ravitch

  Education, Business, School

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.236, Basic Books

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• It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

  Maureen Dowd

  Men, Sin, Pins

  Maureen Dowd (2005). “Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide”, p.112, Penguin

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• We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Love, Evil, Balance

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• We all know that America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others.

  Mort Sahl

  Country, America, World

  Mort Sahl (1976). “Heartland”, New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, Government, Vision

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• But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

  Cesare Pavese

  Lying, Mean, Hiding

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• Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Football, Games

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• He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

  William Manchester

  Men, Sublime, Noble

  William Manchester (1979). “American Caesar”

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• The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Doing You, Television, Potato Chips

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• I'm the worst tweeter ever. I don't know what I'm doing. I really don't.

  Megyn Kelly

  Knows

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• The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was no longer anyone with the noble determination to get to know the great men of the world, or if there were some individuals consumed with this curiosity, they were few in number. From then on, there remained only vulgar minds given over to hatred, envy and discord, who took an interest only in things which did not concern them, gossip, slander, calumny of one's neighbors, all those things which are the source of the worst of our troubles.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Determination, Past, Men

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• The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

  Washington Allston

  Lying, Peculiar, Half

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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  Sometimes I have to remind myself, that on my worst day I live like somebody on their greatest

  Meek Mill

  Sometimes, Worst Day

  Song: Heaven Or Hell, Album: Dreamchasers 3, 2013

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• If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?

  Seth Godin

  Way, Willing, Ifs

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• FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It’s a parasite regarded as a virtue. I speak as a representative of the scientific faction of atheism: it’s one thing we simply cannot compromise on. Faith is wrong.

  PZ Myers

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Waiting, Conditions

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2006). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.57, OUP Oxford

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• The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no means of resistance? Obviously they have. The worst tyrant, even under democratic plutocracy, has but one throat to slit. The moment the majority decided to overthrow him he would be overthrown. But the majority lacks the resolution; it cannot imagine taking the risks.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mean, Men, Tyrants

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.41, Knopf

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• I was Pac-Man. It was the worst costume ever. You would expect a big round suit, but it was just a mask and a smock with a maze on it.

  Ray Toro

  Men, Suits, Costumes

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