Top 100 Could Be Worse Quotes
#1. I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do ...
Tony Stewart
#2. We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.
Leo Buscaglia
#3. He saw during the Weimar Republic that the left intelligentsia hated capitalism, and hence social democracy as well, far too much to think that Nazism could be worse.
Clive James
#5. in America the worst thing you could be was a black man. Worse than dead, you were a dead man walking.
Yaa Gyasi
#6. You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
Edward Albee
#7. I wasn't getting better. I was getting worse.
I did not go to the doctor because I didn't want pills. If this was going to kill me then let me be killed by it. If this was the rest of my life I could not live.
Jeanette Winterson
#9. (Mutters under his breath) Smartass AI. (Louder) Well, we're not dead yet, so it could be worse. I'll let you know if we blow up. (Under breath) Let's see how far we can push before we really do break something critical.
Rolf Nelson
#11. Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
George Orwell
#12. No one else could be benefited by such a belief as this; for were I persuaded that Charlotte had any regard for him, I should only think worse of her understanding than I now
Jane Austen
#13. The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.
Serena Williams
#14. He realized what a fool he had been. There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse.
Louis L'Amour
#15. It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.
Ruby Wax
#16. As I move to the front office, I bring the warm copies to my face and breathe them in. This is a weird habit of mine - sniffing copies. I do the same thing when I get a new book. What can I say? I have a paper sniffing problem. Things could be worse.
Autumn Doughton
#17. [Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb.
John Milton
#18. If I take my time to ready you" (if he could take his time, amended his brain), "I think it will be not much worse than a pinch.
Diana Gabaldon
#19. Rejection isn't a big deal. There are a lot worse things that could happen to me. I could be a homeless war veteran without any legs or I could be blind.
Roosh V
#20. What on earth could be worse than a malevolent witch?' I demanded.
'I belong to the best bit of the dark... I'm an earth-witch who serves Pan. My magic comes from the ground; it comes from the elements; it comes from the Earth itself. The truth is, that's what I was always meant to be.
Joseph Delaney
#21. There could be nothing worse than choosing between two children. Ask me to choose between my right arm and my left and I will give you one. But ask me to choose between two of my children and my heart shatters into a thousand pieces.
Nadia Hashimi
#22. Every celebrity case I've been involved in - I've been involved in a great many - the one thing you can be sure of is they don't get the same justice as everybody else. It could be worse, it could be better, it's never the same.
Alan Dershowitz
#23. There are fears that Britain could be facing a double-dip recession, or worse still, a double-dip with misery sprinkles and fuck-where's-my-job-sauce.
Frankie Boyle
#24. The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease
the kind that could be contracted merely by going to a foreign movie or ordering a decaf latte, or worse, a glass of French wine.
Eric Alterman
#25. Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
#26. If I wrote that women could be unkind, I was considered a traitor
as if it were not worse treachery to pretend that all women were kind.
Erica Jong
#27. It was pretty miserable wretches that minded at all whether they were wet or dry. He could not understand why such people had been born. "It's nothing but damned eccentricity to want to be dry" he would say. "I've been wet more than half my life and never been a whit the worse for it.
Halldor Laxness
#28. Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Jane Addams
#29. It is useless to attack a man who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
Thucydides
#30. To? Oh well, could be worse, she could be hearing voices, oh wait she was, well crap.
Loftis, Quinn (2011-06-29). Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves Series Book 1) (Kindle Locations 317-318). Kindle Edition.
Quinn Loftis
#31. Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.
Cinda Williams Chima
#32. What could be worse? Dying, and not being missed.
Louise Penny
#33. All change is change for the better. There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of Life Itself, and that process could be called by the name 'evolution.' And evolution moves in only one direction: forward, and toward improvement.
Neale Donald Walsch
#34. I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Robert Frost
#35. I quickly became aware that the phrase "it can only get better" could very quickly turn into "it could always be worse," because it was.
Savannah Grace
#37. Still, I could not imagine how being poor could be worse than being rich and hating yourself. I had seen enough of what it was like to be dead. It was time to try living.
James Patrick Kelly
#38. Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.
Lydia M. Child
#39. I have a vague memory of seeing an image of a child in an iron lung and the phrase "sad little breathing machine" coming into my head. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that on certain days - the worse ones - we could all be described as sad little breathing machines.
Matthea Harvey
#40. In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.
Bret Stephens
#41. I just hated being around attention and stuff. In the clubhouse, I hated being around that. I didn't like anything to do with being around people, for the most part. I mean, I could be around them, just not in a talking situation, and that would make it even worse.
Zack Greinke
#42. Sometimes, losing your dreams could be worse than losing your reality.
Jassy Mackenzie
#43. But it'll kill him!"
"It could be worse," said Rincewind.
"What?"
"It could be us," Rincewind pointed out logically.
Terry Pratchett
#44. I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to literature - terrifies me. But you could do worse than Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers.' I loved it as a kid, and my kids love it, too.
Elizabeth McCracken
#45. What could be worse than Hell ?" he said
"Purgatory." I said.
Kurt Vonnegut
#46. That's the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse.
Jim Butcher
#48. Would it be better to have a president who cries easily? Well, that depends on what he cried about. I would not like the thought of a president who could not cry. That would be worse than one who cried over the right things. Which, in this case, would be the things I would cry over.
Walter Cronkite
#49. Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
Jeff Goodell
#50. You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.
Diablo Cody
#51. Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
Kate Morton
#52. I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.
Larry McMurtry
#53. Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
William Alexander
#54. In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Private companies from industrialized nations will seek cheap carbon credits for their country in the developing world.
Jennifer Morgan
#55. Nothing could be more impolite. To say, "Is your sheep genuine?" would be a worse breach of manners.
Philip K. Dick
#56. He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse
Plato
#57. The Lord has afforded breath for another day. The situation could be worse. They'd
Lisa Wingate
#58. I didn't think my day could get any worse until my best friend told me she might be going crazy. Again.
Richelle Mead
#59. It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
Alice Hamilton
#60. A Man Staying At Home All Day And Doing Nothing Could Be Worse Than A Psycho Woman.
Ahmed Ali Anjum
#61. And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.
Mitt Romney
#62. In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present.
Danny DeVito
#63. Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
Carl Jung
#64. There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse.
Marla Gibbs
#66. Nothing could be worse, Thoreau wrote, than to come to the end of life and "discover that I had not lived.
Dale Salwak
#67. Just when I thought my feelings could not be hurt any worse. It was one thing to be betrayed. It was another thing to be considered less important than a diapered fruit spirit.
Rick Riordan
#68. In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#69. I don't think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.
Elizabeth Scott
#70. Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.
Kevin Bacon
#71. Could be worse, I told myself. I could be studying cheese demons.
Rick Riordan
#72. No punishment anyone might inflict on them could possibly be worse than the punishment they inflict on themselves by conspiring in their own diminishment.
Parker J. Palmer
#73. There is no need to overreact. I'm certain there are worse things that could happen to a young lady than to be denied a voucher to Almack's." With a small smile, Amelia Bouchard folded up the letter that had delivered the bad news and tossed it into the fireplace.
Rachel Pierson
#74. If you can't feel grateful, if you're discouraged or depressed, then think of the fact that things could be a lot worse than they are.
Frederick Lenz
#75. There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.
Beth Ditto
#76. I'm the living embodiment of 'it could be worse'.
Dan Howell
#77. Be thankful for even the little things in your life. Be brave & strong to overcome your troubles ... for it could be better but it could always be worse!
Timothy Pina
#78. What could be worse than another person's happiness? Not that his unhappiness would make us happy, but we need it in order to bear our own.
Hansjorg Schertenleib
#79. In our moments of pain and trial, I guess we would shudder to think it could be worse, but without the atonement it not only could be worse, it would be worse.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#80. Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
P. J. O'Rourke
#81. Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
#82. What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.
Helen Keller
#83. you just wanted her to say, "I know what that's like." But of course, she can't say that, will never say that. And if she ever could then you could no longer be with her. Then you would both be tired. Then she would be a better friend, but a worse lover.
Nic Kelman
#84. I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
#85. If you treat man as he appears to be, you make him worse than he is. But if you treat man as if he already were what he potentially could be, you make him what he should be.
Harriet Lerner
#86. What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life?
Gary Lutz
#87. Oh, hey," I said, "This is Roger, my new partner. Roger, this is Jacob, my, uh ... " God, could there be a worse word than "boyfriend?" It made us sound like Barbie and Ken. Or Ken and Ken. Or Ken and G.I. Joe. I told my mind to stop stalling and think of a way to say it. "My partner ... at home
Jordan Castillo Price
#88. How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and happy. The unhappy individual does the opposite!
Fanny Burney
#89. If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
Harold H. Greene
#90. No matter how bad the circumstance it could always be worse.
Randy Pausch
#91. However bad your life appears, things could be far, far worse
Justin Somper
#92. I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.
Bob Kerrey
#93. Her doctor called it depression, but Naomi knew that as bad as depression could be, the dark times were worse. In the dark times her mother took too many pills.
Nora Roberts
#94. The shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands such a book could easily be dismissed, or, worse, go unread. Instead she let it sit where it was in the hope that the right reader might discover it.
Nicole Krauss
#95. I flip open my phone to text Jessica:
Me: Guess who's pregnant?
Jess: u?
Me: Get real.
Jess: ur mom?
Me: yep
Jess: Mazel tov!?
Me: Don't congratulate me, plz
Jess: Could b worse
Me: How?
Jess: Could be u?
Me: I'm a virgin.
Jess: Nobody's perfect.
Simone Elkeles
#96. The bus was crowded, standing room only, and he clung apelike from a bar that hung down from the ceiling. It was humiliating to be packed in with all these people; it reminded him of a cattle car or worse, a sardine can, or worse...but what could be worse than this?
Joseph G. Peterson
#97. Death was a release, in so many ways. An end to suffering. An escape to something else. What that something else was, I didn't know. Maybe heaven. Maybe hell. Maybe nothing at all. But I doubted it could be any worse than some of the things I'd seen and done in my lifetime.
Jennifer Estep
#98. But how would it be if there was nowhere in the world that you belonged? If you could get nobody to love you? What if you could not be a Shadowhunter or a warlock or anything else?
Maybe then you were worse than a tragedy. Maybe you were nothing at all.
Cassandra Clare
#99. Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.
Jim Allchin
#100. Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse
Connor George Serbin
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