Worst Quotes - Page 8

• The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.

  Rob Corddry

  Country, Travel, Talking

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• And you can win, though you face the worst, if you feel that you're going to do it.

  Edgar Guest

  Military, Winning, Faces

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

  Lord Byron

  Military, Tyranny

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• I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Fighting, Player

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• The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Doctors, Worst Moments

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, People, Black

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• Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the environment, you're being chased and eaten by most of the planet's large animals, and suddenly tiny versions of one of the worst of them wanders into the cave and starts to purr.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Cat, Animal

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people

  David Sarnoff

  Business, Inspiration, People

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• As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst.

  William Jenkyn

  Religious, Hurt, Godly

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• The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Broken, Advice

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• The worst feeling is pretending you do not care about something, when really it is all you seem to think about.Do not date the most beautiful girl in the world, date the girl that makes your world the most beautiful.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Beautiful, Girl, Meaningful

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• After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Prayer, Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

  Erich Fromm

  Meaningful, Men, Knowing

  Erich Fromm (2012). “The Sane Society”, p.282, Routledge

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• The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.

  Benjamin Graham

  Money, Worst Enemy, Greed

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

  Philip James Bailey

  Motivational, Cheating, Self

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.131

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• The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.

  Radhanath Swami

  Essence, Mind, Suffering

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• To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.

  Jane Goodall

  Pain, Science, Animal

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• The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism... the haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.

  Hugh Nibley

  Leadership, Religious, Jesus

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• Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

  Peter Ustinov

  Mistake, Intelligent, Gone

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• The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, "Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more."

  William Cowper

  Lying, Night, Done

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• Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

  Allan Bloom

  Prejudice, Reason, Form

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you'll be glad you did.

  Bruce Schneier

  Technology, Errors, Security Systems

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• Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greed, Ingratitude, Avarice

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• [A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by virtue: The worst men always conspiring against them, they must fall, if the best have not power to preserve them. . . . [and] unless they be preserved in a great measure free from vices . . . .

  Algernon Sidney

  Wise, Fall, Men

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• The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

  Michael Parenti

  Successful, Liberty, Fabric

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