Top 100 Best Worst Quotes
#1. This is the best worst time of my life.
Jewel
#2. Something has worked in the past, until - well, it unexpectedly no longer does, and what we have learned from the past turns out to be at best irrelevant or false, at worst viciously misleading.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#3. No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.
Lisa Kleypas
#4. Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#5. Forgiveness is "selective remembering" - a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless - it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.
Marianne Williamson
#6. To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear
Marilynne Robinson
#7. Our worst can become our best if mistakes are gathered like twigs of a bird's nest, giving one true foundation, a spiritual home to build their life upon.
Ace Antonio Hall
#8. AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.
Niki De St. Phalle
#9. O'Reilly, I've been running from the worst of myself all my life, and now it looks like the best of me just caught up.
Mel Bossa
#10. The ground must be a general's best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy.
Joe Abercrombie
#11. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#12. I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.
Nathan Sawaya
#13. Be persistent and just keep going to open mics no matter what, even if just to watch and not perform. You'll find that even at your worst keep your head up because you'll still be better than other people's best.
Pete Holmes
#14. Writers are remembered for their best work, politicians for their worst mistakes, and businessmen are almost never remembered.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#15. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#16. You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#17. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.
Christopher Hitchens
#18. Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.
Alyson Noel
#19. Right thinking is your best light in this dark universe; it is your best hope in your worst hopelessness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. An hereditary aristocracy ... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
Thomas Jefferson
#21. The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.
Theodore Roosevelt
#23. Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages.
Larry Burkett
#24. Zoe also knew her stepmother did not love her. Or even like her very much. In truth, Zoe was pretty sure her stepmother hated her. Sheila treated her at worst as an irritant, at best as if she were invisible.
David Walliams
#25. I've done a lot of shows that didn't do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.
Amanda Righetti
#26. Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.
William Lyon Phelps
#27. It's not proper for seventeen-year-old princesses to be alone with young men who have questionable intentions."
She laughed. "And what about young men who she's been best friends with since she was barely old enough to walk?"
He shook his head. "Those are the worst.
Marissa Meyer
#28. Sometimes the worst-tasting crap is the best for you.
Michael Harmon
#29. It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.
Janet Jackson
#30. same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, "although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge," wrote Orwell, tends to be "uninterested in what happens in the real world." Nationalism
Timothy Snyder
#31. Attempts to control complex systems by using the kind of mechanical, reductionist thinking championed by thinkers from Newton to Taylor - breaking everything down into component parts, or optimizing individual elements - tend to be pointless at best or destructive at worst.
Stanley McChrystal
#32. What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.
Lionel Blue
#33. Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
Gary David Goldberg
#34. The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#35. People mess up, you know? But you can't see past it. It's like you choose one thing about them - the worst thing - and say, 'That's who they are,' and ignore the rest of it. Why not choose the best thing about them instead? Or the thing they do the most?
Sarah Skilton
#36. There is a little good in the worst of us and a little bad in the best of us and it ill behoves any of us to criticize the rest of us.
Philippa Carr
#37. I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'
Nicki Minaj
#38. There's always a little decency in the worst places ... and always a little secret selfishness in the best.
Joe Hill
#39. Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#40. You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.
Annie Besant
#41. In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.
Edna Buchanan
#42. The Trail of Tears has a great deal of meaning for every person of American Indian ancestry, whether they are Cherokee or not. For me, it has always stood for what is best and worst about the history of the United States.
Joseph Bruchac
#43. I've been Corporate's Least Favorite Kotova since I was fifteen. And with an extended family that fills one-third of all Aerial Ethereal shows, being the worst or best Kotova takes actual effort.
Krista Ritchie
#44. Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.
Cassandra Clare
#45. You survived in his world by being the best of the worst and there was no doubt in my mind that was exactly what Bax was
Jay Crownover
#46. Look," he said, "the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst."
If you expect the worst, you're never disappointed," I pointed out.
Yeah, but who lives like that?
Sarah Dessen
#47. Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.
Mike Tyson
#48. If this were a real Metallica album, "Enter Sandman" would be the worst song on the album, not the best.
Stan Jones
#49. For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.
Jonathan Lethem
#50. When you do exactly as you're told, and you're neither the best nor the worst at any task, you can disappear in the crowd and have a small measure of solitude.
Marko Kloos
#51. I look at Las Vegas, and I see the absolute best of what we are as Americans, and I see the absolute worst, in the same city.
Joe Carnahan
#52. The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away.
Anthony Liccione
#53. I learned early on, the worst day chasing your dreams is better than the best day doing anything else. I
David Labrava
#54. Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
Jules Verne
#55. Sometimes the worst kind of love teaches you the best lessons.
Ryan O'Connell
#56. It lies here deep in the heart, the small chest of pain
Sharp words like daggers placed it here
To fill with hurt
In filling it grew heavy and drug me down
For to not feel is not to live
Until I rest at last in dirt
The worst of you got the best of me ...
Neil Leckman
#57. I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses a lack of faith.
Marilynne Robinson
#58. Our best friend and our worst enemy reside within us. Unfortunately, most of us access the latter far more often than the former.
Maddy Malhotra
#59. Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!
live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Jerry Garcia
#60. The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.
Marilynne Robinson
#61. Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
Elbert Hubbard
#62. No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.
Jodi Picoult
#63. Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.
Diego Rivera
#64. A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.
Lisa Kleypas
#65. You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.
Alison Goodman
#66. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best.
Timothy Snyder
#67. God does not make the way smooth for those He loves. He sends hardships to try them. Those that God loves the best are those who suffer the worst.
Philippa Gregory
#68. The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#69. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
W.B.Yeats
#70. Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.
Sarah Dessen
#71. Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
Maya Angelou
#72. At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.
Karen Salmansohn
#73. The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best.
Paul Babicki
#74. Your worst mistakes is actually your best advice.
Mod Sun
#75. At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
Flannery O'Connor
#76. Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided
with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
P. J. O'Rourke
#77. When he is best he is a little worst than a man, and when he is worst he is a little better than a beast.
William Shakespeare
#78. I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them, they have lain, sometimes for months on end, becalmed. There is a residue even if they fail. It has not been all tinkling; there have been grand chords.
James Salter
#79. I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
Balthus
#80. When they write a bad review, and you agree with it, that's the worst feeling. When you know you've done what you wanted and the best you could and you love the outcome, then you look at everything differently. Not everyone's going to love everything you do.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#81. Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
Jerry Garcia
#82. memories are like your favorite movie you remember the best parts and the worst parts.
Jim Long
#83. The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
Don Meyer
#84. If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best.
Jeffrey Fry
#85. During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.
Chellie Pingree
#86. What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher ... Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.
Louise J. Kaplan
#87. We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.
Edward B. Lewis
#88. The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison
#89. 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
#90. Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
Pamela Adlon
#91. It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
Oscar Wilde
#92. Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. The note: 'No hard feelings, everyone, but I've thought about it and it's just not on, is it? It's nearly on, but not quite. No? Anyway, all the best, C.
Martin Amis
#93. I bring out the worst in you, but you bring out the best in me
Anna Todd
#94. The would-be maturing believer is not challenged to any adult faith or service to the world, much less mystical union. Everyone ends up in a muddled middle, where "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity," as William Butler Yeats put it.
Richard Rohr
#95. I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.
Mike Nichols
#96. A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.
Osunsakin Adewale
#97. Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required.
Frank Herbert
#98. Try celebrating the best and not the worst.
Rob Manuel
#99. Man is a short-sighted creature, sees but a very little way before him; and as his passions are none of his best friends, so his particular affections are generally his worst counselors.
Daniel Defoe
#100. If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.
Randall Jarrell
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