Worst Quotes - Page 32

• It's probably one of the worst places I've been.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Places I've Been

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• This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hate, Grief, Sins Not

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• It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public.

  Howard Schultz

  Ironic, Retail, Benefits

  "Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May 1, 1998.

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• Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dog, Real, Meat

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• Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Loneliness, Inspiration

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• A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

  Irving Bacheller

  Father, May, Poet

  Irving Bacheller (2008). “D'ri and I”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.

  Carlos Fuentes

  America, Doe

  Quoted in Time, 16 June 1986

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• It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

  Ngaio Marsh

  Heart, Taste, Speak

  Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Death in a White Tie: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #7”, p.58, Felony & Mayhem Press

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• But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Events, Cases, Inconsistency

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.73, Random House

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• I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

  Cecil Beaton

  Blue, Circles, Criticism

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• The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Lying, Media, Example

  "Social media and opposition to blame for protests, says Turkish PM" by Constanze Letsch, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2013.

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• Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, Worst Nightmares, Doe

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• To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Apologizing, Boring, Vulgar

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.124, Pan Macmillan

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• The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Government, Spain, Can Do

  "Will Spain Be the Next Greece?". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

  Evo Morales

  Worst Enemy, Humanity, Capitalism

  "Bush Seeks Free Trade With Latin America". "All Things Considered" with Michele Kelemen, www.npr.org. September 24, 2008.

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• Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

  Harry Browne

  Simple, Government, Ideas

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• If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world's worst investor.

  John Hagee

  World, Earth, Investment

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• The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive.

  Paul LePage

  Alive, Life Is, Newspapers

  "LePage slams newspapers, revs up GOP faithful during Auburn rally" By Scott Thistl, bangordailynews.com. August 28, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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