Worst Quotes - Page 39

• Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Winning, Law, Want

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• The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

  Agnes Martin

  Thinking, Worst Things

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• I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.

  Beth Orton

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Worship, Idolatry, Species

  Robert Dale Owen (1871). “The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next: With Illustrative Narrations”, p.102

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• All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania—are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Wise, War, Past

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• I've always felt there are three sexes: men, women, and actors. And actors combine the worst qualities of the other two.

  Peter Biskind

  Sex, Men, Two

  Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.199, Macmillan

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• There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Children, People, Sometimes

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• Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

  Gregory David Roberts

  People, Shantaram

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.325, Macmillan

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• Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Thinking, Years, Tests

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'

  Rima Fakih

  Happens

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• Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

  Geneen Roth

  Running, Self, Faces

  Geneen Roth (1992). “When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy”, p.23, Penguin

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• At least we got to see the worst haircut since 1984 try to steal the spotlight from lovely Taylor Swift.

  Nathan Followill

  Lovely, Trying, Spotlight

  "Katy Perry, Pink, Hayley Williams Bash Kanye West's VMA Rant" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. September 14, 2009.

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• Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children.

  Dave Kopel

  Children, Home, Gun

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• People who say it takes money to make money are using the worst excuse ever. . . Create massive value for others by providing a solution where no other exists.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  People, Making Money, Excuse

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• Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

  Stephen King

  Judging, Written

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

  Mark Twain

  Happened, Worst Things

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• Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Book, Class, Two

  Joseph Conrad pt. 3, sec. 1 (1924)

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• I always get so overwhelmed trying to do everything perfectly. I can't do a job and not put everything I have into it. I need to be the best employee, the best co-worker, the best whatever. I need everyone to like me and I just burn out bending over backward to make that happen. Having people be mad at me is my worst fear. I can't stand it. There is this crazy fear I have of being rejected by anyone - even people I don't really care about. It's always better to leave them first, cut all ties, and disappear. They can't hurt me that way - no one can.

  Nic Sheff

  Hurt, Jobs, Crazy

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

  Lin Yutang

  Inner Peace, Mind, Accepted

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• What’s the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people’s lives. Where I’ve either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That’s the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can’t get that back.

  Chester Bennington

  Hurt, People, Pieces

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• The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

  Elihu Root

  Discipline, May, Efficiency

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• Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.

  Pope Pius IX

  Christian, Religious, Worst Enemy

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• Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, He is with us. He has promised us that this will never change.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Never Change

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2016

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• The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

  Milan Kundera

  People, Liberty, World

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• The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

  Plato

  Fear, Self, Deception

  Plato, Harold North Fowler (1926). “Plato: with an English translation”

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