Worst Quotes - Page 30

• I don't think I'm the worst singer, but I don't think I'm the best singer.

  Rebecca Black

  Thinking, Singers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor’s best friend and Wall Street’s worst nightmare.

  Jonathan Clements

  Wall, Worst Nightmares, Fans

  Jonathan Clements (2003). “You've Lost It, Now What?: How to Beat the Bear Market and Still Retire on Time”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap, and demagogy.... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.

  Robert Briffault

  Ignorance, Government, Order

  Rational Evolution (The Making of Humanity) ch. 15 (1930) SeeWinston Churchill 34

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

  George Seaton

  Floating, Isms, World

  8 Copy quote

• Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

  Al-Jahiz

  Character, Men, Crow

  11 Copy quote

• Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.

  Weston La Barre

  Intellectual, Tyranny, Contemporary

  4 Copy quote

• When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated... The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Curves, Years, People

  "America Senses Something's Not Right" by Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. August 6, 2009.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

  Larry Brilliant

  War, People, Disease

  32 Copy quote

• We never know our good or bad as we loose our judgement living with them.worst part is we don't accept who we are & hence remain confused for the rest of our life.

  Gopichand Lagadapati

  Confused, Judgement, Who We Are

  4 Copy quote

• It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the hidden life is by means of symbol; if it were not for the recurring evidence of murder – the disemboweled rabbits, the headless flickers, the torn squirrels – we should forever imagine our cats to be simple pets whose highest ambition is to sleep in the best soft chair, whose worst crime is to sharpen their claws on carpeting.

  Robley Wilson

  Ambition, Mean, Sleep

  5 Copy quote

• Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From Kenya to Ethiopia, Djibouti to Somalia, the devastating consequences of drought, desertification and land degradation are playing out before our eyes. The worst drought in 60 years has placed more than 13.3 million people -- predominately women and children -- in need of emergency assistance.

  Rajiv Shah

  Children, Eye, Years

  4 Copy quote

• The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

  Paul Halmos

  Way, Mathematics, Teach

  57 Copy quote

• The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

  Norbert Wiener

  Success, Math, Games

  "Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

  Abraham Cahan

  Smile, Lying, Deceit

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

  Ben Huh

  Sleep, Insomnia, World

  8 Copy quote

• It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our minds. We were supposed to get over ourselves but no one was supposed to get over us. The female body was our worst handicap and our best advantage - the surest means to success, the surest course to failure.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Girl, Women, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

  Spencer Bachus

  Broken Heart, Years, Immigration

  8 Copy quote

• I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

  Daniel Clowes

  Kids, Kissing, Thinking

  9 Copy quote

• The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

  John Sterling

  Education, Self, Denial

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.184

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Bed, Partners, Continents

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

  Alison Bechdel

  Self, Needs, My Family

  18 Copy quote

• Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

  Peter De Vries

  Self, Abuse, Celibacy

  20 Copy quote

• Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for home-based health care.

  David Mixner

  Home, Heart, Aids Epidemic

  "Millions of Lives Will Be Changed By Home Health Care Cuts" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.

  T.C. Boyle

  Prayer, Hands, Joy

  T.C. Boyle (1999). “T.C. Boyle Stories”, p.348, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How important it is to be an instrument to bring out the inherent good of each other rather than the worst.

  Radhanath Swami

  Important, Kind, Consciousness

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source