Something Worse Quotes

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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. — John Quincy Adams
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. — Emily Bronte
To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but… — Saint John Chrysostom
A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than… — Jack White
Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce,… — Meles Zenawi
To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure… — Maimonides
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable.… — Roger L'Estrange
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to:… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it that is what you compare it to;-… — Thaddeus Golas
"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make… — Alexandra David-Neel
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse,… — Alexander Pope
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for… — John Steinbeck
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to… — Gautama Buddha
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and… — Viktor E. Frankl
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you… — Henry David Thoreau
In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called â€˜I can like something worse than you can like.â€™ — Denise Scott Brown
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a… — C.S. Lewis

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