Worst Nightmares Quotes - Page 2

• you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  World, Trapped, Nightmare

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• Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mom, Thinking, Dust

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• Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Growing Up, Real, Kids

  "Jonathan Safran Foer: 'I'm Not So Interested in the Comforting Kind of Religion'". Calvin College's Festival on Faith & Writing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, www.csmonitor.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Donald Trump says he’s President Obama’s worst nightmare. That’s not true. Having to make a decision is Obama’s worst nightmare.

  Jay Leno

  Decision, President, Trump

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• I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor’s best friend and Wall Street’s worst nightmare.

  Jonathan Clements

  Wall, Fans, Streets

  Jonathan Clements (2003). “You've Lost It, Now What?: How to Beat the Bear Market and Still Retire on Time”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• Coal is my worst nightmare.

  Steven Chu

  Energy, Coal, Caps

  "Nightmare On Coal Street". www.desmogblog.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, Doe, Knees

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• Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

  Terry Pratchett

  Librarian, Badges, Nightmare

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• If you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn't choose human beings for the job. But here's an extrememly salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

  Bill Bryson

  Lonely, Jobs, Fate

  "Bill Bryson’s ‘Really Short History of Nearly Everything’ Is The Dream Gift Book For Every Curious Kid" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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

  Bill Bryson

  Achievement, May, Supreme

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.435, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I'm an actor/singer who moves well... sometimes. I'm actually a great mover but not every style fits my body and a dance call back is my worst nightmare.

  Erica Schroeder

  Moving, Style, Actors

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The only thing worse than a crappy TV show which Paddy Chayevsky couldn't have conceived in his worst nightmare is two megacorps fighting over who thought of the crappy show first.

  Judd Apatow

  Fighting, Tv Shows, Two

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• 90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.

  Danny Dyer

  Jobs, Hate, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction.

  Lindsey Graham

  Islamic, Mass Destruction, World

  Cnn Reagan Library Debate in Simi Valley, California, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 16th, 2015.

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• A Pakistan businessman is claiming that John Walker Lindh is gay and that he was his lover. Say what you will about Lindh, but when this guy goes to play for the other team - he goes all the way ... So Lindh may be both a terrorist and a gay man. That may be John Ashcroft's worst nightmare.

  Jay Leno

  Team, Gay, Men

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• The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.

  Lindsey Graham

  Community, Als, Poverty

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• I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.

  Natalie Portman

  Children, Thinking, Optimism

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