Worst Quotes
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When it comes to the discussion of oppression in America, we've been experiencing the worst of it for a long time. What's exciting to me is the prospect of going from worst to first in a forward-moving transformation which is going to take groups of dispossessed black folks here and others and make us controllers of our own destiny.
Chokwe Lumumba
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
Sherman Alexie
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Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.
Seth Godin
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
William Ellery Channing
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It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
Sara Blakely
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My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.
George Steinbrenner
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Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.
Helen Keller
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Hey, think fast!' I just looked at Fave as he chucked the basketball at me with possibly the worst overhand throw I'd ever seen. It landed to my far right, then bounced past me, banging against my dad's truck. 'Do you have a vision problem of something?' I asked him. 'Just keeping you on your toes,' he replied
Sarah Dessen
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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will
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Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Tim Pratt
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The worst thing that can happen for people who don't want women to be strong is that we help each other and become a force.
Sarah Silverman
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
Carrie Fisher
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You take the thing that is the worst thing that could have happened to you, the worst challenge in your life, and you turn it into fuel. You don't give up. And that's what Gotham is about.
Scott Snyder
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The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
Sarah Dessen
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Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.
Cecelia Ahern
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But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.
Sarah Dessen
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The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
Russell Baker
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Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'
Stephen Fry
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
Sherman Alexie
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My parents were my worst audience.
Richard Lewis
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The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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ISIS represents the worst threat to freedom since Communism!
Rick Perry
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The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs
Stephen Fry
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I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.
Richard Pryor