Worst Quotes · Page 194

Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing…

— Ray Dalio

You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and…

— Anonymous

We talk about that a lot: how, when you're under pressure, it brings out the best and the worst in people.

— John Hillcoat

True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.

— Lin Yutang

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

— Joe Haldeman

Disaster movies do us the psychological service of forcing a quick march through the worst that could happen. At the end we…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Private boarding schools and Catholic schools on the East Coast are something. Choate really ruined my father's life. He's had nightmares about…

— Laura Dern

I'm not a big one for jokes. I can't tell a joke, believe it or not. If you gave me a thousand…

— Don Rickles

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst…

— Nikola Tesla

It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

— Bill Bryson

Year after year after year, people write books about managing innovation or about leadership, for example, without ever going through the pain…

— Clayton Christensen

I'm not blaming George Bush. But I don't want Jeb Bush to say my brother kept us safe because September 11 was…

— Donald Trump

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the…

— Georg Ebers

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was…

— J. K. Rowling

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at…

— Jack Vance

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power…

— Jamie Zawinski

I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the…

— David McCullough

In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I'm sayin'?

— Julia Stiles

The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia,…

— Ryan Holmes

Climate change is critical to me because I'm a parent; I feel a sense of responsibility to the future. I'm not going…

— James Cameron

It was a time of turmoil at colleges and universities. And I saw some very smart people and very privileged people behaving…

— Samuel Alito

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending…

— Brian Greene

Don't worry,don't worry.Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts,all those big society people.They were the worst thieves-and now look at them.It's just…

— Meyer Lansky

The worst program in the world, if you believe in it 100%, is better than a great program that you don't believe in.

— Lynn Jones