Their Worst Quotes
57 quotes by 54 authors
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I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
— Kenneth Branagh
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Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.
— Martina Navratilova
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Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard…
— John C. Maxwell
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As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what…
— Pema Chodron
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In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces.…
— James Keller
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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more than that single…
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.
— Rene Dubos
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The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best,…
— Clifton Fadiman
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My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals -…
— Oprah Winfrey
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
— Plato
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Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people…
— Richard Dooling
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As we interact with others, we can either be a person who is bringing out their best or pointing out their worst. Regardless, however, our…
— Bill Crawford
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There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist
— Boyd Rice
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When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their…
— Mark Lawrence
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst
— Susan Cheever
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They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained…
— Michael Davitt
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