Top 80 It Gets Worse Quotes
#1. The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.
Norman Mailer
#2. Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.
Dave Barry
#3. I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
Barry Humphries
#4. Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend it's not happening, it goes on, it grows, it gets worse.
Eve Ensler
#5. Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.
Christine Baranski
#6. I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.
Hugh Grant
#7. It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time ...
Nick Matzke
#8. Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.
Lloyd Dobyns
#9. I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.
Andie MacDowell
#10. Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.
Cat Power
#11. When you're older, no matter how good your humor is you don't always feel perky and peppy. But if you sit home all day and brood about it, it gets worse.
Iris Apfel
#12. Rejection of food: This was the first hurdle I encountered after parting with him. Refusing food is basically a refusal of relationships, and if it gets worse it can turn into a frightening illness, leading to a complete destruction of all human contact.
Kyung-ran Jo
#13. If we don't confront those things that are wrong, it gets worse.
Sunday Adelaja
#14. We are brought into this world cold, weak, and helpless. Then it gets worse.
Christopher Titus
#15. Holy shit,' Ash murmured.
'Oh, it gets worse.'
Ash lifted an eyebrow.
'Yeah, apparently when I decide to be an asshole, I go all the way.
Maya Banks
#16. The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn't work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it's not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing "this isn't going to work." And it does!
Saul Bass
#17. Human existence is an error ... it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#18. There is no end. There is no cure. It gets worse with time. Cure. How can you cure an institution, we are bricks crumbling in the walls of despair. Death is inevitable for us all. But the insanity is here to stay.
Stephen Richards
#19. It gets worse. Josh tell her that he loves her. She says it back. He touches her. She touches him back. And then they're losing their virginity on the floor of her bedroom beside her pet rabbit, Isis.
A rabbit.
Josh literally lost his virginity in front of a metaphor for sex.
Stephanie Perkins
#20. I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.
Diane Keaton
#21. That's the thing about this game
you get a little monkey on your back. You go 0-for-3, you go 0-for-6, pretty soon you start pressing. You keep trying a little harder, and the harder you try, the worse it gets. So, anytime you can break out of it by getting a base hit, it feeds confidence.
Mike Candrea
#22. I want to protect the fans. I want to protect this music scene. We must protect the world before it gets any worse. And I can only do that through the band, the GazettE"
-Reita
Reita
#23. The housing market will get worse before it gets better.
James Wilson
#24. It may get worse before it gets better. But it WILL get better.
Debby Ryan
#25. Jamaica never gets worse or better, it just finds new ways to stay the same.
Marlon James
#26. A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect.
Stevie Nicks
#27. Kitty, do you have the bottle?"
"In my purse. Which is in my room. Not that I think I can find my room from here."
"I'll get it," Martini said. He stood up and disappeared. Ten seconds later he was back, bottle in hand.
"What kept you?"
"That purse gets worse every time I look inside.
Gini Koch
#28. Well, suppose there's a slight doubt that the boy should be in the army and we send him and he gets killed."
"I see. Is it responsibility or blame that bothers you?"
"I don't want blame."
"Sometimes responsibility is worse. It doesn't carry any pleasant egotism.
John Steinbeck
#29. I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really explain how bad it was.
Reginald Arvizu
#30. A bloke's bowling at 150kph trying to rip the fingers off your arms or probably even worse. It gets your blood going and the adrenalin pumping. You are in a fight. And to me that's what Test cricket is all about.
Justin Langer
#31. Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous.
Linda Ronstadt
#32. As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse ... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.
Martin Parr
#33. There are some things that you can always bet on. One is that when Congress comes up with a new program it never works right over the long haul. Another is, when Congress goes to fix the mess it has made the mess only gets worse.
Lyn Nofziger
#34. The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win.
Mira Grant
#35. Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
Wayne Rooney
#36. Jess's feelings about Leslie's father poked up like a canker sore. You keep biting it, and it gets bigger and worse instead of better.
Katherine Paterson
#37. Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.
Michelle Williams
#38. It is very important that you be compassionate with yourself. The worse you feel about yourself, the more you'll want to go back to the false safety of the bad relationship you were in. Your attachment system gets activated more when you feel bad about yourself
Amir Levine
#39. He's one of those guys whose English gets worse every year. But as long as it doesn't affect his play, we're all right.
Wade Belak
#40. Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#41. With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.
John Dramani Mahama
#42. And at first it's okay, you know, not perfect, but okay, and you get used to it. Then it gets a little worse, and you get used to that, too. Then one day, you wake up and you don't have the first freakin' clue how it got that bad.
Patrick Ness
#43. If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!
William James
#44. When in life you are destined great, but fated to a humble background, it always gets really worse before it gets really better.
Darmie Orem
#45. Barack Obama said yesterday that the economy was 'going to get worse before it gets better.' See, that's when you know the campaign is really over. Remember before the election? 'The audacity of hope!' 'Yes, we can!' 'A change we can believe in!' Now it's, 'We're all screwed.'
Jay Leno
#46. Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?
L.M. Montgomery
#47. We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
William Gaddis
#48. There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
Alex Van Halen
#49. I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.
Christian Slater
#51. As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.
Eileen Myles
#52. Grief isn't a luxury; it's an appropriate response to loss. You don't just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it will fade with time, but if you ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist, it only gets worse.
Richard Paul Evans
#53. It is better to have no hope than just a little hope. A little hope just gets you thinking something good is about to happen. And when that little hope is taken away, you are worse off than before.
Richard LeMieux
#54. The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#55. I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse.
Alexander Masters
#56. It's interesting, the worse things get in cities, the tougher that cities get, the more brutal the humor is. The tougher [things] people face, the darker the sense of humor gets and I find that incredibly optimistic.
Danny Boyle
#57. With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I'm going to keep moving forward.
Rivers Cuomo
#58. Good stuff gets worse and bad stuff gets better, so you're better off to spend a little time making friends with all of it.
Sara Bareilles
#59. A man can stand almost any hardship by day, and be none the worse for it, provided he gets a comfortable nights rest; but without sound sleep he will soon go to pieces, no matter how gritty he may be.
Horace Kephart
#60. We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.
Don Meyer
#61. There is not much future in men being friends with great women although it can be pleasant enough before it gets better or worse, and there is usually even less future with truly ambitious women writers.
Ernest Hemingway,
#62. The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
Harold Bloom
#63. Travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.
Peg Bracken
#64. Sometimes the more you think about an outfit the worse it gets.
Koo Stark
#65. Well, until man is redeemed he will always take a fly rod too far back, just as natural man always overswings with an ax or golf club and loses all his power somewhere in the air; only with a rod it's worse, because the fly often comes so far back it gets caught behind in a bush or rock.
Norman Maclean
#66. If you say anything, it just gets worse.
R.L. Mosz
#67. The thing I never understood about love is that it can't be quelled, like lust can. With love, if you follow its call, if you give in to it, it just gets worse. The more you have, the deeper you go, the more you need.
Emily Maguire
#69. And then other times life just sucks and there is nothing to learn. You just get used to it sucking until something else happens to make it worse. Maybe nothing ever gets better, you just grow accustomed to constantly increasing levels of bad." "Life does suck.
Liz Schulte
#71. I don't believe this," Diesel said. "It just gets worse and worse. Bad I enough I have to play cupid to a butcher, button maker and veterinarian ... now have to be sex therapist for a guy who gives people a rash.
Janet Evanovich
#72. It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!
David Lee Roth
#73. Everything will usually get worse before it gets better, but when it does get better ... remember all who put you down and all who helped you up. Forgive but never forget. Let Karma take care of all the rest.
Timothy Pina
#74. The problem with hope, Anne finds through the years, is that it gets your hopes up. But hopelessness is worse.
Kelly Braffet
#75. He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any worse. Maybe ice it. The old Injury Evasion Fandango. Did it ever end?
John L. Parker Jr.
#76. When good enough gets the job done, go for it. It's way better than wasting resources or, even worse, doing nothing because you can't afford the complex solution.
Jason Fried
#77. Everyone is called, but most let it go to voicemail. What's worse, when the Universe tries to leave a message, it gets 'mailbox full.'
Derek Rydall
Derek Rydall
#78. It's cool because you don't know how certain songs are going to go over until you play them live. For some reason, "Shivers" gets a huge response. I was not expecting it. When I start singing in the middle of "Baby Get Worse", they go nuts. Just little surprises like that.
John Britt Daniel
#79. There are people who will always doubt you and you have to live with it. It only gets a lot worse when you have to die with it!
Rakesh Ranjan
#80. It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the worse. It's silly.
Barbra Streisand
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