Worst Quotes - Page 28

• Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

  Bette Greene

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Bette Greene (1988). “Morning is a long time coming”, Starfire

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• I have seen flowers come in stony places
  And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
  And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
  So I trust, too.

  John Masefield

  Horse, Flower, Men

  John Masefield, Peter Vansittart (1984). “John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917”, Constable & Company Limited

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• Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. … Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst.

  Isocrates

  Heart, Honor, Done

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics

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• God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

  Frederick Buechner

  Greatness, Men, Impossible

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• Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.

  Douglas Coupland

  Boots, Sun, Plastic

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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• Time erases both the best and the worst of us.

  Douglas Coupland

  Erase

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “All Families are Psychotic”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Divorce, Funny Divorce, Reconciliation

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• It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.

  Patrick Henry

  Song, Eye, Men

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.

  Peter Lynch

  Ignorance, Investing, Buying

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Evil, Vices

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured on the pretence of sparing me a twinge or two.

  Robert Browning

  Dog, Pain, Cat

  "The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Agamemnon of Æschylus, La Saisiaz, etc".

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• The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.

  Barry Diller

  Thinking, Ideas, Years

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• Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Mean, Men

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• Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Inspirational, Lying, Sleep

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.58, Pushkin Press

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• Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, Kindness, War

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.75, Princeton University Press

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• Our mandate is to find the 200 best companies in the world and invest in them, and find the 200 worst companies in the world and go short on them. If the 200 best don't do better than the 200 worst, you should probably be in another business.

  Julian Robertson

  World, Should, Company

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• The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered
  about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were
  still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the
  horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me
  into bed.

  William Styron

  Morning, Sleep, Fog

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.

  Marissa Mayer

  Cases, Ready, Limitation

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• Even if it doesn't work out, the experience is so valuable to so many employers that your worst case scenario is, 'Ok, so that was a bust, I'll get a six-figure job at whatever company.' Risk is this outmoded idea - your parents might not understand that, but taking these types of risks doesn't have a downside.

  Drew Houston

  Jobs, Ideas, Worst Case Scenario

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• The best products in the world have a point of view. The worst products have none.

  Kevin Systrom

  Views, World, Point Of View

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• Our best long-term and intermediate cycles suggest another slowdown and stock crash accelerating between very early 2014 and early 2015, and possibly lasting well into 2015 or even 2016. The worst economic trends due to demographics will hit between 2014 and 2019. The U.S. economy is likely to suffer a minor or major crash by early 2015 and another between late 2017 and late 2019 or early 2020 at the latest.

  Marc Faber

  Long, Suffering, Trends

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• Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

  Charles Saatchi

  Long, Virtue

  "Be The Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience & Virtue". Book by Charles Saatchi, April 2, 2012.

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• A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

  Yukio Mishima

  Father, Lying, Believe

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• If you don’t prepare, you could lose everything. If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens, you’ve lost nothing.

  Gerald Celente

  Lost, Happens, Ifs

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• To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

  Prince Harry

  Funny, Children, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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