In this post, you will find great Worst Quotes from famous people, such as Warren Farrell, Zack Greinke, Winston Churchill, Taika Waititi, Akhil Akkineni. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice… is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
I am not the worst singer.
Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.
I plan for the best and expect the worst.
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.
I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.
Citizens United, I believe, will be regarded by history as one of the worst decisions this Supreme Court – or any Supreme Court – has ever made. It is distorting our political process and corrupting our government.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
I think my worst enemy was myself. It’s like I’ve been in my own way more than anybody else has been.
Television makes so much at its worst that it can’t afford to do its best.
If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts – but it’s not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it’s any better – but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.
You know, I have no worst experiences.
The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.
Going to the blackboard at school was the worst torture.
Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren’t in the freshman class and aren’t graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.
It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody.
The worst enemy of coaches is expectations.
I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.
I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.
Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most – is the worst type almost. Because it’s wrong about half the time. Think about that.
Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best. And there are remarkably rare ones, who just bring out the most of everything that even you don’t know that you have.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you’ll do yourself a service.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
Even if you can be the world’s best at one thing, you’ll be the world’s worst at something else. Supermodels make pathetic sumo wrestlers.
I’m probably the worst person for ‘Men’s Health’ to interview.
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they’re worn out and times – and this is the worst of all – before we have new ones.
As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online – what spreads – is the worst kind. It raised itself above the din not through its value, importance, or accuracy but through the opposite: through slickness, titillation, and polarity.
It wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if we didn’t have a salary cap.
You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it’s the worst decision in your life. That’s fine. That’s not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It’s a sign that it’s normal; it’s on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue.
There’s nothing I hate more than an over-cocky person. I have friends that’ll be all cocky and then go out and get their butt whooped. They’re the worst.
A breakup is hard enough, and to have it all filmed and have to re-watch it and know that people all across the country are watching you get your heart broken, it is embarrassing. It’s not fun. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I’ve received.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It’s the worst review of your life and it’s really relieving to find out that they don’t know what they’re saying.
To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That’s what freedom of expression is all about.
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
The worst thing you can do to a child, and I’ve seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.
Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I’ve ever seen.
Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.
Without a doubt, the worst part of being a mom is having to floss my kids’ teeth every night. It’s so tedious.
I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it’s usually you.
We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.
What’s the worst that could happen? You’re going to come second or lose? It’s not like someone has got a gun to your head.
Greed is the worst thing.
When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
I’ve always said I’m the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that’s ever existed, because I’ve been inside more bars than mosques.
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don’t transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence – as in punishment and deterrence – is needed to rein in our worst instincts.
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.
People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life.
The Internet goes doot-doot-doot – it goes sideways. There’s nothing hierarchical about it. And the best thing about it is also the worst thing about it, which is there are no gatekeepers on the Internet. Consequently, there’s a whole lot of bad information on the Internet. But I think that sorts itself out over time.
We get angry about the small things sometimes, I feel, so that we feel like we’re doing something, so that we don’t have to tackle the big things. And it’s fine; let people do that. But I’m not gonna now change because of that. You know? Like, the worst thing that happens to me is you don’t like me. And then what?
I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron‘s view of the artist as a paid employee.
Nice is the worst word.
In many areas, the E.U. regulates to help the worst sort of giant corporate looters defending their position against entrepreneurs. Post–Brexit Britain will be outside this jurisdiction and able to make faster and better decisions about regulating technology like genomics, AI and robotics.
I wouldn’t wish my worst enemy bad luck.
The best alpinists are the ones with the worst memories.
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
Trump‘s biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.
America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
An intellectual hatred is the worst.
Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.
Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can’t see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.
Social media is the devil. Absolute devil. Oh, my God. It’s the worst thing ever.
Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
Seeing my dad crying is the worst.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
I hear people saying ‘the way the game should be played‘. Rubbish. That’s the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.
I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You’re not allowed to speak your mind unless you’re black, or unless you’re a terrorist, or unless you’re an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.
Hunger can bring out the worst in us.
When it comes to how neuroscience could help the wider public, the worst thing is when we make advances in, say, mindfulness, and then decide that everybody can potentially think their way to curing themselves or develop their own psycho-neuro-immune mechanisms for boosting cancer defenses.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he’s not a villain. He’s a dude, just a guy.
While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.
I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it’s very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.
P Street in D.C. is one of the worst areas in the city. Some of the things I saw, the things I experienced, the things we came through, really gave me a whole new perspective on life.
I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity.
Both my best and my worst habit is that I’m very impulsive.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren’t passionate about what they’re doing.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was – Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland‘s discrimination.
September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
I feel like there’s a voice in my head, always, telling me every idea is brilliant, and another telling me every idea is the worst. And they argue in my head until somebody wins, until I solicit an audience to be, like, ‘Will you help me figure this out? Is this the best or the worst idea?’ And they tell me!
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?
Being nervous isn’t always the worst thing for me.
Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.
The worst problem I’ve probably had was the gambling – you can do your money in the bookies a lot quicker than you can do it in the pub.
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.
In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.
Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.
It’s the worst when you’re kissing someone who’s not a good kisser, and you’re trying to make it look good, but you feel like you’re just working on your own.
The worst costume is when you don’t have a costume.
Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.
Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone’s motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone’s Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, – though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, – the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages… the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an ‘Encyclopedia Brittanica’ showing up at their house.
We want to be a country with a competitive edge in the world. And a country with a solid democracy. To do that, we need to attack the social problems, and extreme poverty is probably the worst of those.
The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.
I’ve seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida – the worst place on earth.
I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you’re working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.
It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock.
I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
The worst thing you can do in a relationship, and what’s really unattractive about it, is that people begin to limit each other.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It’s just totally overwhelming.
I was the worst extra, I was ‘that’ guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra – for best background performance.
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.
I’m interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it’s the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can’t be this way.
The thing about gay people is that until we come out of the closet, we’re always protecting other people: ‘I can’t do this, because it’s gonna hurt so-and-so.’ We’re trying to live the lives of other people, and that’s the worst thing you can do.
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.
A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.
Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.
Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
We do our worst when we’re surrounded by a lot of people who agree with us.
I can’t stand to watch anything that I’m in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I’m in. It’s abusive.
But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
I’m the worst night owl, because I’m a self-loathing night owl who thinks, ‘No, I should be getting up early.’ It feels unproductive. I must get over that.
The fact that communities that are relatively powerless often are exposed to more dangerous pollution and the worst effects of climate change: a society like that is one that is less free and less equal for everybody.
You know, I’m Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
Well, football is a hard game; there’s no denying it. It’s a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.
I’m the worst person about publicizing myself.
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
The weather is the worst. I lived many years in Lisbon and then went to Monaco, places that are similar in terms of weather and food. In Manchester, it’s eight or nine months of cold, and that makes a difference, but apart from that, I’m really enjoying the city.
I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It’s always flattering, and it’s always odd. It’s always at the worst possible time.
The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I’d get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
You are so much more than the worst thing you’ve ever done.
Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it ‘Datsun’ – now it’s ‘Nissan.’ Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it… but it was my transportation.
It’s rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn’t find that was true of my top super stars either.
I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that’s really the take-home message for teenage girls.
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
I’m the worst on facts about me or facts about the Beatles.
Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That’s when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer – that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it’s work time.
To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I’m gay, then I think I’ll be fine. I can handle it.
It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
When America pays lip service but little more to horrors like the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, instead proclaiming convenient but arbitrary loopholes in our moral obligations, we just give the world’s worst bullies more ammunition and power.
I don’t wish jail on nobody, not even my worst enemies.
I’ve had a lot of bosses that I didn’t agree with, but the worst boss was very much me myself. So, I can’t let myself slack off, and if I do slacking off, I’m the one that’s yelling at myself. I’ve worked with a lot of different employers, and none of them have been as aggressive as I have been.
The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing.
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.
I’ll say my dad couldn’t act to save his life and nor can my uncle, and they’ll say I’m the worst actor in the world.
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
The worst thing in life is not to die but to live with bitterness.
Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.
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.
I couldn’t have accomplished the things in my career if I didn’t practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says ‘Allen, I don’t like practice, either.’ I’ve got to straighten that kid right then.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy – as well as in an individual’s life – is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
My worst quality is impatience.
We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
You have to remember that reality shows capture your worst moments.
My siblings and I have got the worst teeth in Britain.
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
The worst of doing one’s duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I’m doing.
I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I’ve wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.
I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.
In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
The worst evil is – and that’s the product of censorship – is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.
I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn’t pay the rent.
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.
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don’t want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it’s also a parent’s worst nightmare: That they won’t need you. It’s like the real tragedy of parenting.
I have one good characteristic: I’m a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst – always. To me, the future is a black hole.
A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It’s the system and its limitations that are to blame.
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.
The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.
The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.
I’m not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.
I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they’ve ever done.
My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?
I’ve just had some of the worst situations with the most beautiful girls who I just could not stand talking to anymore. The physical only lasts for so long.
The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
The worst frame of mind to be in is what the fans like or what the fans want, because then you lose the authenticity of who you are as an artist and who you are as a person.
Behind the notes, something different is told, and that’s what the interpreter must find out. He may sit down and play one passage one way and then perhaps exaggerate the next, but, in any event, he must do something with the music. The worst thing is not to do anything.
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
The great thing about movies is that they’re collaborative. And the worst thing is that they’re collaborative.
I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can’t actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.
You tell people that all the time, ‘Jail’s the worst place ever and you don’t want to go there,’ which is true but at the same time you see it’s filled with a bunch of people like guy is drinking on a porch somewhere and he gets arrested for public intoxication. He’s going to miss work. He’s not a bad guy per se.
When I look back, I don’t have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I’m definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I’m trying very hard not to be that.
It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.
People in this room must have back problems, I’m sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can’t do anything in your life when you have it.
The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it’s simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn’t known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.
I was born and raised in Kansas. The worst things are the locusts, mosquitos, the flatness, the humidity. The greatest things are the simplicity of life, watching the thunderheads building on the horizon, and running through cornfields.
The second-worst thing in the world is betting on a golf game and losing. The worst is not betting at all.
My worst days are still pretty good days. That’s something I might lose in the moment sometimes, but I have a pretty good grasp of it.
Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, ‘Oh, I’m on stage playing a song,’ because you’re daydreaming about something else, you’re on autopilot. You have to fight that.
It’s… a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It’s the worst thing you’ll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again.
We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We’re inheriting a situation – when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.
One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.
Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst – the presumption that they know best, and they’re going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.
Too many people say to their brokers, I can’t deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That’s the worst attitude you can have.
The future is the worst thing about the present.
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
Once, I was going to a film event, and someone told me not to wear high heels to it. They said that it might intimidate the men. For some reason, I was ready to take their cue, but about an hour later, something in my head started ringing, and I thought, ‘That is the worst advice anybody’s ever given me.’
When I was in high school, I wanted to be a counselor and I wanted to work with kids. I’ve been through the worst of high school. And I want to motivate people to live the best life that they can, because we’re only here for one life.
Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
If you spend five minutes with your worst enemy – it doesn’t have to be about race, it could be about anything… you will find that you both have something in common. As you build upon those commonalities, you’re forming a relationship and as you build about that relationship, you’re forming a friendship.
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.
For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.
The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It’s also the only privatized system.
So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don’t know how to explain what they mean.
We make it very clear, we don’t want our fans to say over-the-line things. But if someone is saying, ‘I can’t wait for Dave Portnoy to go out of business,’ I don’t care if our fans say, ‘You’re the worst.’
At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!
The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You’re going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.
She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.
American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we’ve ever had because it is so materialistic and it’s so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it’s just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that.
The worst men often give the best advice.
The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.
When I’m left on my own I’m my own worst enemy.
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they’re not going to succeed.
Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
I tell everyone in the world that I have always been the best father I could be and that I was the worst husband. Wooo!
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
We are a richly blessed nation; let’s not squander that – one of the worst things we can do is not gratefully acknowledge our abundances.
On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.
And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.
I’m my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
Everyone understands the European Union is a failure. It has not kept any of its promises – in particular about prosperity, security – and, worst of all, has put us under a guardianship.
I don’t know, I think, in times where I’m really nervous, and I’m really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.
Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.
There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.
Alan Greenspan is the worst Chairman of the Fed in history.
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.
A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I’m kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap… I was just in the right place at the right time.
One of the worst days of my life was telling Dick Ebersol I was going to TNT.
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that’s where I hide.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings – on tiny margins and with minimal investment – might not be the worst fiscal training.
Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.
I believe that the worst thing the liberals did in this country was the Lyndon Johnson welfare system, which broke up millions of marriages by funneling taxpayers‘ money solely to the woman. That made the father and husband irrelevant.
A happy childhood… is the worst possible preparation for life.
I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can’t win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
Gout produces calculus in the kidney… the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
I’ve been through worst, seen worst.
Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.
If I ever got into trouble with my sisters or was slacking off, it was always my punishment that I couldn’t go to a practice or a game. That was the worst thing in the world.
To wait idly is the worst of conditions.
