Worst Quotes
4529 Worst quotes by 2896 unique authors
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Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.
— Elie Wiesel
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Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law…
— Learned Hand
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The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
— Aristotle
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
— Natalia Kills
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My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
— Natalia Kills
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When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,…
— John Dryden
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Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts.
— Cesare Borgia
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Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.
— John Updike
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Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
— Gloria Steinem
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At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
— Thomas Carlyle
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And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.
— Joseph Hall
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The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a…
— James Fallows
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We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless…
— Rebecca West
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Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.
— Juliana Hatfield
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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…
— Antonio Tabucchi
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Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.
— Michael L. Brown
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Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.
— Curtis Jackson
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Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or the other! ...…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
— Nicholas Negroponte
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While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.
— Samuel Johnson
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We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.
— Robert Browning
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