Quotes About Making Things Worse

#1. Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because they imagine things aren't good enough and should be made much better.

Michael Leunig

#2. Things will happen. You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse. React Positively. Live Happily.-RVM

R.v.m.

#3. When he makes mistakes, he's so focused on righting the wrong, and so overconfident about his ability to fix it all, that he loses sight of the big picture and ends up making things worse.

Jenn Bennett

#4. RVM Thoughts for Today -
Things will happen.You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse . React Positively. Live Happily

R.v.m.

#5. Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse.

Dan Rostenkowski

#6. He felt wretched at this point, he'd just told off Gandalf essentially, and Dumbledore's kindness was only making him feel worse.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#7. It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

Kevin Brooks

#8. Honestly, I think it's about always making sure to cleanse your skin every single night. I never go to bed with my makeup on. That is a major key. There's nothing worse than waking up in the morning and all of your makeup has soaked into your pores.

Shay Mitchell

#9. If we were going to default, we would have decided that many months ago. It would be wrong for the Greek economy, it would be wrong for the European economy, it would make things worse in the end. That's why we're taking the pain and making these structural reforms, and we're on target.

George Papandreou

#10. There's nothing worse than making a good movie that doesn't get seen.

Lucy Fisher

#11. It's been a pretty tough day," he said. "No sense making it worse with a salad.

Susan Juby

#12. Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

Branch Rickey

#13. I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you're through.

Julia Quinn

#14. The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

Brian Stableford

#15. You told me how you hate daffodils because they're morbid. They stick around for a month making everything lemon drop yellow, then die and get replaced by worse flowers.

How the hell does an elementary schooler grasp the concept of beauty not being permanent?

Calista Lynne

#16. Egalitarians never seem to understand that promoting economic equality in theory means promoting resentments and polarization in practice, making everyone worse off. - Thomas Sowell (2016)

George Gilder

#17. Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

Learned Hand

#18. There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.

Guillermo Del Toro

#19. In Poland, some people think that I'm kind of scandalous because I'm a woman who should stay at home with her kids instead of making movies about what I want and, even worse, addressing Polish taboos like church, homosexuals and history.

Malgorzata Szumowska

#20. Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq.

Chuck Hagel

#21. The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

W. H. Auden

#22. Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.

Eric Ries

#23. If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.

William Westney

#24. And to hear David talk about it, it's it all happened because a long, long time ago people tried to mess with human nature and ended up making it worse.

Veronica Roth

#25. As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

John Dewey

#26. Fight fire with fire, only adds more negative energy to the situation, making it worse.

Auliq Ice

#27. Being with someone else and making that person feel as if they were no importance in our life is far worse than feeling alone and miserable.

Paulo Coelho

#28. Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

William, Saroyan

#29. They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

David Bennun

#30. It was making me think about human life in a way I didn't want to think about it. Human life, I realized, got progressively worse as you got older, by the sound of things.

Matt Haig

#31. Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

George Bernard Shaw

#32. Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

Martha Stewart

#33. Our excessive possessions are not making us happy. Even worse, they are taking us away from the things that do. Once we let go of the things that don't matter, we are free to pursue all the things that really do matter.

Joshua Becker

#34. Our spending priorities are clearly in question when we are increasing bond indebtedness on pet projects such as museums while our infrastructure is allegedly failing. Mississippians are spending more on basic needs than ever. They don't need their state government making that worse.

Chris McDaniel

#35. The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

Catherine Keener

#36. He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.

Branch Rickey

#37. For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Quintilian

#38. Make choices in life that don't leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn't include God in the decision making process.

Shannon L. Alder

#39. He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

William Shakespeare

#40. Singers- nothing sounds like you. For better or worse-there is only 1 of you. Don't homogenize your sound by making it just like the next.

Lalah Hathaway

#41. If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

Edwin Catmull

#42. According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually

Bill McKibben

#43. Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Leo Durocher

#44. For better or worse, we live in a world where money can be acquired simply by attracting attention and by making promises.

Jonathan Slack

#45. There are worse things than eating the dead, my dear fellow. Far worse things. There is, for instance, making a huge profit out of their funeral, which is the normal custom in the civilized world.

Leonard Wibberley

#46. Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#47. Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.

Michael Cunningham

#48. But I'm no good at apologizing. I always end up making it worse. I'll say, "I'm sorry," and I'll be all sweet, and then once I'm forgiven, I'll say, "But you really did start it.

Rainbow Rowell

#49. What happens when an essayist starts imagining things, making things up, filling in blank spaces, or - worse yet - leaving the blanks blank?

John D'Agata

#50. Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains.

L. Jon Wertheim

#51. No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

Gregory Maguire

#52. I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

Robert Jordan

#53. 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

#54. By standing still, we're making the things we don't like about Obamacare even worse, forcing Missourians to bear all the costs of this law - and reap none of the benefits.

Jay Nixon

#55. 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

#56. In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both
better ... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.

Marcus Aurelius

#57. We simply argue that climate change consequences was one of the impacts, but interestingly enough, even though a major effort was made in 2008 to try and resurrect the problem over food, now the consequences of the civil war are making the situation even worse.

Chris Barrie

#58. Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

Kate Morton

#59. When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora Commission hearings of the early 1930s, which led to Congress taking bold steps to regulate banking and securities firms in 1933 and 1934.

Gary Weiss

#60. Worse, I convinced myself our tragedy was entirely her making. I spent years working myself into the very thing I swore she was: a righteous ball of hate.

Gillian Flynn

#61. There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

#62. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

Ann Landers

#63. Politics is deliberately making things better for some people by deliberately making them worse for others.

Cillian Murphy

#64. This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.

Gisele Bundchen