Worst Quotes - Page 29

• National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

  Wallace Stegner

  Ideas, National Parks, Democratic

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• Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.

  Wallace Stegner

  Men, Air, Discovery

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• The worst thing you can do is allow a coalition to determine what your mission is.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Missions, Coalitions, Determine

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• Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

  Nadine Gordimer

  Human Nature, Humans, Written Word

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• I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

  Tommy Rettig

  Addiction, Smoking, World

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• And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government must set an example. The President himself must set the key example. I am not going to promise a Cabinet post or any other post to any race or ethnic group. That is racism in reverse at its worst. So I do not promise to consider race or religion in my appointments if I am successful. I promise only that I will not consider them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Successful, Opportunity

  Campaign speech, Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, October 17, 1960.

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• There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

  Hippocrates

  Art, Pain, Mean

  Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”

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• The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Love, Pain, Poverty

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• Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

  Donald Barthelme

  Writing, Found, Elusive

  1972 Sadness,'The Rise of Capitalism'.

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• Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

  Edward Abbey

  Bores, Sparkling

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning.

  Robert Adams

  Beautiful, Thinking, Suffering

  "Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values". Book by Robert Adams, June 15, 2005.

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• As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

  Daniel Defoe

  Roots, Evil, Poverty

  'Moll Flanders' (1721)

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• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Lying, Purpose, Being Lied

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• Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.

  Albert Ellis

  Goal, Soul, Purpose

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• The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.

  Hannibal

  Mirrors, Mind

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• The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

  Arthur Miller

  Mother, Father, Self

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

  John Grisham

  Teacher, Book, School

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• I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Years, People, Twenties

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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• Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Issues, Never Settle

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.27, Penguin

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• My father was a pimp before he became a deacon or something. These people know how to handle women. I'm the worst guy in the world with women. They run circles around me.

  Mike Tyson

  Running, Father, Circles

  "Tyson: 'My whole life has been a waste'" by Jon Saraceno, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.

  Mike Tyson

  Worst Enemy, Fire, House

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• American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

  Elena Kagan

  Lying, Worst Enemy, Unity

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• Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.

  Dan B. Allender

  Loss, House, Grace

  Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.2, WaterBrook

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• So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are
  unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Fear, Order, Delight

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• You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

  Gennifer Choldenko

  Mother, Alcatraz, Said

  Gennifer Choldenko (2013). “Al Capone Does My Shirts”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing

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