The Only Thing Worse Than Quotes

#1. The only thing worse than feeling that you are going to die is the realization that you probably won't.

Linda Greenlaw

#2. The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

Jimmy Johnson

#3. In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#4. The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

Josh Lanyon

#5. I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else
all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.

Lauren DeStefano

#6. 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

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

Sonya Sones

#8. The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.

Tucker Elliot

#9. The only thing worse than an oppressed liberal is the Rino Republican who sympathizes with them.

Josh Bernstein

#10. But the only thing worse than remembering the feel of Rose in his arms, the softness of her black and white feathers, the sound of her voice when she sang quietly to herself, would be forgetting it.

Melissa Grey

#11. When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

Harold Coffin

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

Elin Hilderbrand

#14. The only thing worse than losing an employee you have trained is keeping an employee you haven't trained.

Zig Ziglar

#15. You know the only thing worse than being dead? Being dead and having to watch crappy TV because you I can't change the channel.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#16. The only thing worse than starting something and failing ... is not starting something.

Seth Godin

#17. The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.

Wolfgang Sachs

#18. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others
The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#19. The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

Evan Esar

#20. The only thing worse than dating a single mom is dating a single mom that won't put out.

Chelsea Handler

#21. The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

Jim Rohn

#22. The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

Ambrose Bierce

#23. The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.

Joan Robinson

#24. The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.

Carrie Fisher

#25. As far as Ahsoka Tano was concerned, the only thing worse than being up to her armpits in battle droids was waiting to find out just how long it would be before she was up to her armpits in battle droids.

Karen Miller

#26. In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

Bono

#27. And then you run. Because the only thing worse than her being gone is that you're still here.

Tricia Rayburn

#28. The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#29. Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.

William Faulkner

#30. The only thing worse than taking things personally is being told you take things personally. And how am I supposed to take things, if you please? Why bother talking to anyone at all if you are not supposed to consider anything that is said to be at all personal?

Meg Howrey

#31. The only thing worse than an unlovable woman was an unlovable woman who whined about not being loved.

Courtney Milan

#32. The only thing worse than not knowing where she belonged...was knowing where she didn't.

Tessa Shaffer

#33. The only thing worse than too much government is too little: in failed states, people suffer at least as much violence and injustice as under authoritarian rule, and in addition their trains do not run on time.

Tony Judt

#34. The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.

Jonathan Tropper

#35. The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.

Elvis Presley

#36. The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

Plato

#37. Apparently the only thing worse than a terrorist attack, is a gay man stopping it!

Jon Stewart

#38. The only thing worse than a crappy TV show which Paddy Chayevsky couldn't have conceived in his worst nightmare is two megacorps fighting over who thought of the crappy show first.

Judd Apatow

#39. The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you.

Henry Russell Sanders

#40. The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Helen Keller

#41. The only thing worse than living with regret, is dying with regret.

Jewel E. Ann

#42. The only thing worse than regretting the things you've done is regretting the things you didn't do.

Samantha Leahy

#43. The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how

Joel Plaskett

#44. The only thing worse than a liar is a betrayer. Both are killers, for they kill both truth and trust.

Dennis Gleason

#45. The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.

Tom Waits

#46. The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

Oscar Wilde

#47. The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.

Casey Stengel

#48. The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.

Suzanne Collins

#49. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde

Tonya Hurley

#50. The only thing worse than failing to realize any of your dreams, is seeing them all come true. You were meant for something more. Even if you could be known the world over, what does it matter if you have no time to be known by God?

Kevin DeYoung

#51. The only thing worse than a voice inside your head is a voice inside your head that only speaks in riddles.

Pierdomenico Baccalario

#52. When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

Jodi Picoult

#53. The only thing worse than a perilous adventure is a boring one.

Lemony Snicket

#54. You know, the only thing worse than a self-righteous virgin is a self-righteous fake virgin.

Rachel Vincent

#55. The only thing worse than women are women who tell me I'm a misogynist.

John Avery

#56. The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

Michael J. Fox

#57. The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.

Lauren Oliver

#58. Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.

Mel Lawrenz

#59. The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Salman Rushdie

#60. The only thing worse than being without you would have been watching them break you day after day, until you weren't yourself anymore

Alexandra Bracken

#61. The only thing worse than a battle lost is a battle won.

Anonymous

#62. Love does take. Loving someone takes strength. Love takes hard work. And sometimes ... Love takes sacrifice. I remember thinking, feeling the only thing worse than being with Drew was being without him.

Cambria Hebert

#63. The only thing worse than dying is living a boring life.

Mark Driscoll

#64. On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

Andy Hargreaves

#65. The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.

Zig Ziglar

#66. The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

George Takei

#67. I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were

Kami Garcia

#68. The only thing worse than drowning in grief is sharing a lifeboat with other drowning people. Besides, if anyone needs a grief group, it's him.

Courtney Cole

#69. The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me

Thom Yorke

#70. Ick. The only thing worse than 'silly family time' was 'serious family time', which we'd just entered like it was the Bermuda Triangle.

Laura L. Zimmerman

#71. The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Tennessee Williams

#72. The only thing worse than saying something boring is to quote someone else's boring saying

Lee Owens

#73. The only thing worse than a bigot is an "ally" who can't stop congratulating themselves on their enlightenment.

Julio Alexi Genao

#74. The only thing worse than living inside an alligator had to be living inside a decrepit one.

Robert Dunbar

#75. The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Matthew Scully

#76. The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#77. The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

Kevin Spacey

#78. The only thing worse than being alone in the dark, is finding out you're not!

Gavin Hetherington

#79. The only thing worse than parents who don't pay attention to you is parents who pat you on the shoulder on their way out the door

Katie Alender

#80. The only thing worse than remembering the past is the fear of reliving it.

Brad Meltzer

#81. The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

Jonathan Alter

#82. The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee- pad conservative ...

Edward Abbey

#83. The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

Oscar Wilde

#84. The only thing worse than a Mexican Stand Off is a Peace Pact that Fails!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#85. The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

John Green

#86. They're the only thing worse than family, other people's family.

The Crazy Ones

#87. The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.

Henry Rollins

#88. The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

Markus Zusak

#89. Women want their men to be cops. They want you to punish them and tell them what the limits are. The only thing that women hate worse from a man than being slapped is when you get on your knees and say you're sorry.

Mort Sahl

#90. The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

Ashly Lorenzana

#91. Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.

Shaquille O'Neal

#92. There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

Emile M. Cioran

#93. Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm ... I think the only sensible thing is just to wait and see and what I'm doing when I'm writing books - I'm not doing science so much anymore.

Freeman Dyson

#94. The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

Joan Baez

#95. Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

Oscar Wilde

#96. There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.

P. J. O'Rourke

#97. I can't stand lies. Probably no one can. Probably everyone is, to varying degrees, allergic to them, both spiritually and physically. Lies make me feel low and ignoble, and also itchy, like there's sand under my skin. The only thing that feels worse than hearing a lie is telling one.

Marisa De Los Santos

#98. There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!

Chien-Shiung Wu

#99. The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy

Bill Maher

#100. There is only one thing worse than losing the one you love, and that is losing them without knowing why. If you are a dog, then your master is like a god to you, and the pain of losing him is greater still.

Louis De Bernieres