Worst Quotes
4529 quotes by 3093 authors
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I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.
— Richard Marx
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If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.
— George Washington
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Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our…
— Robert Adams
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I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
— John Hume
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Barack Obama is the worst president in history,
— Ben Quayle
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
— Daniel Defoe
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
— Finley Peter Dunne
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals…
— Albert Ellis
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The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.
— Hannibal
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are…
— Joseph Brodsky
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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing…
— Arthur Miller
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The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14…
— John Grisham
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When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the…
— Poul Anderson
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I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used…
— Theodore Sturgeon
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass…
— Celia Thaxter
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All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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