Quotes About Getting Worse

#1. Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

Stephanie Beacham

#2. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.

Johnny Depp

#3. I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

Florence King

#4. 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

#5. Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.

Ashley Banjo

#6. 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

#7. Bit if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. Things are out of joint - going wrong and getting worse. We see it all around us, but the answers are still ahead.

Stephen King

#8. Worse than getting kicked out of your slot to go on to a winning season is to lead during a losing one. Nobody wants to be king of the losers.

A.D. Aliwat

#9. He'd made the world a little better, or at least, prevented it from getting worse. That was his purpose. That was his point. Someone

Victoria Schwab

#10. With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me through seven or eight drafts and it was just getting worse and worse, and then the film was never made.

Emma Donoghue

#11. The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

Bill Gates

#12. Barefoot and pregnant. After the ruckus last night, I suppose I wouldn't be all that shocked if you managed it," Elijah muttered as Stunt passed him.

Stunt was officially in hell. It was like getting caught by his parents having sex. Worse...kinky sex.

Lyn Gala

#13. People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

Tony Dorsett

#14. As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

Troy Polamalu

#15. There's a long tradition of teen comedies where the kids are getting drunk on beer and whatever else, so smoking a joint to me is no worse than having a beer. So, if someone has a problem with it, I'll just tell them to relax.

James Franco

#16. Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#17. Instead of getting at the other side with something just as bad as they did to you - or something worse - you do something good. Or at least you keep yourself from doing something bad

Jeanne DuPrau

#18. The only thing worse than a social networking junkie who breaks out in a cold sweat if she hasn't updated her page in the past ten seconds is the person (usually it's a guy) who proudly refuses to join Facebook. You know, that same d-bag who held out on getting a cell phone until, like, 2002.

Andrea Lavinthal

#19. It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

Marat Safin

#20. The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.

Sonya Sones

#21. I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand.

Reba Riley

#22. I think the key is never being satisfied with your skills and you have to constantly learn. I say this all the time, I sound like a broken record, but if you are not getting better in this sport you are getting worse

Kenny Florian

#23. The Enlightenment faith that things are getting a little bit better each decade becomes difficult to support. People recognized that there had just been a war that was worse than the war of 1812, and worse than the Revolution; things were clearly not getting better and better.

Christine Jennings

#24. I grew up on a ranch and my daddy always said, "If the milk is sour move the herd". Well things have been sour here for a while and getting worse...gotta let (it) go.

Dean Lorey

#25. Well, your God is silent and sleeping while the Japanese are busy torturing and killing us Koreans. We are as helpless as flies and it is getting worse as the war goes on.

Sook Nyul Choi

#26. 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

#27. Look, getting bitten doesn't make you into a monster. It just makes you a wolf. You are what you are. When you're a wolf, or when you're shifting, you don't have human inhibitions, so if you're naturally angry or violent, you get worse.

Maggie Stiefvater

#28. I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

Tahar Rahim

#29. It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.

Cynthia Heimel

#30. That concerns me. You're either getting better or you're getting worse. I don't think you stay the same in sports. If we want to achieve something special in the game, then these players have to recognize that they're responsible every day for getting better.

Russ Rose

#31. Don't follow the path of writers:

the path stinks / you never get paid

drinking / sleeping tablets only make the head worse

and I'm forever getting pissy
with every-
one.

Andy Carrington

#32. Apple is not thinking different anymore, they are getting worse by the day. They've become bottom-dollar and you can see that transition easily.

Justin Vernon

#33. The four-day elevator ride might be nothing more than a prelude to further journeys, some of which might take her to places with little to no bandwidth, and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.

Neal Stephenson

#34. People often ignore injustices for the sake of Not Getting Involved; too afraid of Making Matters Worse. Not realising matters are made far worse because of it.

Poppy Inkwell

#35. Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

Elin Hilderbrand

#36. My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a Quaker.

Woody Allen

#37. The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.

Ian McEwan

#38. She could handle if he decided to throw her in the dungeons for a little while, too.
Because somehow, the thought of him getting hurt- or worse- made her willing to rick just about anything.

Sarah J. Maas

#39. The evidence shows you that two things have been true throughout mankind's history: One, things always get better. Two, people always think they're getting worse.

Penn Jillette

#40. There ain't nothing worse than getting fired by somebody you hate, because it means they

Sarah Monette

#41. When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

C.S. Lewis

#42. Running away is pretty pathetic, but it's even worse getting caught.

Maureen Johnson

#43. Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.

Miranda Kenneally

#44. She thought men and women belonged to different races and any getting together was worse than

Lorna Sage

#45. The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#46. I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#47. I love you and it's getting worse.

Joseph E. Morris

#48. I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.

Adam Driver

#49. Sometimes, almost getting what you want is worse than never coming close.

Jennifer R. Hubbard

#50. Code without tests is bad code. It doesn't matter how well written it is; it doesn't matter how pretty or object-oriented or well-encapsulated it is. With tests, we can change the behavior of our code quickly and verifiably. Without them, we really don't know if our code is getting better or worse.

Michael C. Feathers

#51. The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

Eric Allman

#52. When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner.

Janet Evanovich

#53. Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is.

Howard Schultz

#54. There are two things that have been true throughout history in big hunks. You can find differences in ten years, but in 50 year hunks, 100 years hunks, you'll find two things to be true. One, the world is always getting better. Two, people always think it's getting worse.

Penn Jillette

#55. You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

Alberto Salazar

#56. School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better or worse. But really it's the same thing for years and years.

Helen Oyeyemi

#57. When you are just muscle, you end up being gaunt in the face, and that makes you look older by 5 or 10 years. I don't think of getting older as looking better or worse; it's just different. You change, and that's OK.

Heidi Klum

#58. We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse.

Wendy McElroy

#59. As we build systems that are more and more complex, we make more and more subtle but very high-impact mistakes. As we use computers for more things and as we build more complex systems, this problem of unreliability and insecurity is actually getting worse, with no real sign of abating anytime soon.

Matt Blaze

#60. When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

C.S. Lewis

#61. Harry: I supposed getting married wouldn't be any worse than killing myself.

Caryl Churchill

#62. The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They're out of control and have been for some time.

Sara Ramirez

#63. People SHOULD be doubted. Many people misunderstand this concept. Doubting people is just a part of getting to know them. What many people call 'trust' is really just giving up on trying to understand others, and that very act is far worse than doubting. It is actually 'apathy.

Shinobu Kaitani

#64. There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to become worse and worse. Others will come along who can run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and you will be forgotten. Your winning moment is dated to die.

Charlie Higson

#65. Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth.

Evo Morales

#66. Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

Diana Cooper

#67. At the gym; I've given up trying to get in really good shape, and re-committed myself to not getting any worse.

Dov Davidoff

#68. Actually, therapy isn't just about feeling better - it's about getting better, which usually involves feeling worse for a while.

Nancy Rue

#69. The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

Major Owens

#70. It's getting worse, Harry muttered, biting off the Frog's head.

J.K. Rowling

#71. We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse.

Greg Gutfeld

#72. Good and evil are not static; they are dynamic. Each one continually feeds on itself just like compound interest in the bank. Good is always getting better, and evil is always getting worse.

C.S. Lewis

#73. I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

Robert Plant

#74. How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.

Kent Beck

#75. Don't worry," I say, putting a PG Tips tea bag in her mug. "It's been happening for years. It's not getting worse. Besides, I'm not hearing voice, I'm overhearing them. I just don't know what they are saying.

Abigail Thomas

#76. The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So it's getting worse, the deterioration by professionals is getting worse. The public would be better off in an index fund.

Peter Lynch

#77. History started badly and hav been getting steadily worse.

Geoffrey Willans

#78. Every day is getting worse
Do the same things and they hurt
I don't know if I should cry
All I know is that I'm tryin'
I wanna believe in you, I wanna believe in you
So why can't you be, be good to me ...

Grace Norwich

#79. Educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve - as Coach Graham taught me - is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse?

Randy Pausch

#80. I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

Haruki Murakami

#81. Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

Jason Reitman

#82. Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depends on getting the fit right. Garments that bunch, pull, or sag call attention to figure flaws and often make people look worse than they would without clothes.

Virginia Postrel

#83. History started badly and has been getting steadily worse.

Geoffrey Willans

#84. (T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college ... Like instant, unearned success. Like getting your first novel accepted by the first publisher you send it to. Like getting your first rejection slip at the age of thirty-five.

Jincy Willett

#85. Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse.

Tom Felton

#86. You get through bad things - I know, enough bad things have happened to me already. But I don't think getting through one bad time makes it any easier to deal with the next one. If anything, it's worse, because there is happiness to remember.

Jackie French

#87. Abby. She's a pigeon. A demonic pigeon that fucks with my head so bad I can't think straight. Nothing makes sense anymore, Cam. Every rule I've ever made's getting broken one by one. I'm a pussy. No ... worse. I'm Shep.

Jamie McGuire

#88. In history, the evidence is overwhelming: Stock market bottoms happen, and then stocks jolt upwards while the economy keeps getting worse - sometimes by a lot and for a long time.

Kenneth Fisher

#89. If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better ... or you're getting worse.

Tom Peters

#90. Even when things are getting worse instead of better - I believe God!

T.D. Jakes

#91. Perhaps my bad temper or my jealousy are gradually getting worse - so gradually that the increase in seventy years will not be very noticeable. But it might be absolute hell in a million years!

C.S. Lewis

#92. Every day that you don't practice is a day you're getting worse.

Amy Chua

#93. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 am. It could be a right number.

Doug Larson

#94. Because if there's one thing worse than an IT manager who's feeling the chill wind of obsolescence blowing down his neck and consequently trying to contribute code to the repository like an actual working developer, it's an IT manager who's getting creative.

Charles Stross

#95. People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.

Kara Swisher

#96. President Obama gave a big speech on climate change. He believes global warming is getting worse because apparently he's sweating a lot more during his second term

Jay Leno

#97. That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

Harold Washington

#98. [U]sing religion to treat depression often makes the problem worse. It's like treating the disease with more of the disease. It is effective in getting people to give time and money to the church, but it does not help the victim.

Darrel Ray

#99. Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse."
"Maybe that's what's gotta happen," Willa Mae said.
"Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it back together again right.

Margaret McMullan

#100. I hate getting old," Violet said. "I do, too. But the alternative is worse.

Joanna Bourne