Worst Quotes - Page 35

• The absolute worst thing a receiver can do is worry about not catching the ball or about getting hit.

  Jerry Rice

  Worry, Focus, Balls

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• For many people in the U.N., the 1990s was the worst decade the organization experienced. This was the decade of Somalia, Srebrenica, of Rwanda and so forth, and yet the reality is, during this period, although there were these awful conflicts, the overall number of wars had gone down.

  Andrew Mack

  War, Reality, Organization

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• Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Self Improvement, Kind

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• Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

  Horace

  Motivation, Rain, Fate

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• Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst.

  Rachel Maddow

  Inspirational, Leadership, Respect

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• The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

  Jonas Salk

  Tragedy, Casts

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• The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision.

  Scott McNealy

  Business, Decision, Next

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• God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Forgiveness, Wish, Who We Are

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• I try to keep myself in the best of company and my horses in the worst of company.

  Len Goodman

  Horse, Racing, Trying

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• I think that always myself is my worst opponent. I always playing against myself first and then to the other one. So I'm playing against two guys during the match...It's like mentally I don't know what is gonna happen in the next ten minutes. Maybe I get depressed in ten minutes. I don't know myself too much...Yeah, I was working with a psychology, and I still.

  Gaston Gaudio

  Thinking, Two, Tennis

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• Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them and to do them honour simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I would commend the Jews. And if this is not enough, let him tell the Jews to use his mouth as a privy, or else crawl into the Jew's hind parts, and there worship the holy thing, so as afterwards to be able to boast of having been merciful, and of having helped the Devil and his progeny to blaspheme our dear Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Worst Enemy, Order, Dear Lord

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• This is the biggest cemetery for Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti. It must tell us that we have to come back here again and again. We must keep the memory of the worst crime in human history alive for those who were born later.

  Horst Kohler

  Memories, Holocaust, Alive

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• Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Inspirational, Education, Mean

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “Marriage”, p.16, Read Books Ltd

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• Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Character, Men

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• Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

  Walter Savage Landor

  Failure, Failing, Mishaps

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.311

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• Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.

  Tori Amos

  Morning, Ignorance, Boys

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• How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Giving, Receiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

  Audre Lorde

  Women Empowerment, Littles, Next

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• If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.

  Anthony Burgess

  Depth, Abiding, Behaviour

  "The Wanting Seed".

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• If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best."

  Winston Churchill

  Wicked, Action, Gang

  "You Do Your Worst - And We Will Do Our Best". Winston Churchill's speech, winstonchurchill.org. July 14, 1941.

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• Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the nations of the world-such as, for example, that exhaustion of the world's oil supply will bring all transportation and machinery to a standstill through lack of lubrication, or that exhaustion of the earth's stores of coal will make life unlivable in these cold climates-just smile and reply that the worst troubles of all are those that never happen [and] that you prefer not to cross shaky bridges until you come to them.

  B. C. Forbes

  Bridges, Oil, Next

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• We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

  Robert McCracken

  Kindness, Skills, Ideas

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• Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love, Justice, Judging

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.

  Lionel Blue

  Sorry, People, Evil

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• In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Pieces, Chess, Way

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