Top 100 The Worst Quotes
#1. I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk.
Ginni Rometty
#2. Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.
Anna Chlumsky
#3. I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.
Gerhard Richter
#4. I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.
Antonio Banderas
#5. Being president looks like the worst job in the world.
John Mulaney
#6. In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
Warren Littlefield
#7. The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism)
Temple Grandin
#8. The strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love.
Chris Kyle
#9. One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.
Erich Fromm
#10. I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it again!
Blake Lively
#11. And the worst way to treat someone hoping to be heard is to walk in with a clipboard and a checklist.
Nishant Kothary
#12. It's rare for me to be asked out and for me to respond in a positive way is rarer still. I'm the worst - a man has to be just right for me.
Cheryl Cole
#13. Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?
Gustave Le Bon
#14. I guess you heard about this; the U.S. Olympic Committee is coming under fire after it was revealed that the uniforms for Team USA to be worn in the opening ceremony were made in China. Turns out they were made by some of the same kids who could beat us in gymnastics. That's the worst part.
Jay Leno
#15. The worst financial decision you can ever make in your life, is to steal something. The second is like it, and that is to cheat someone. Even, if it would appear that you were never brought to account for it.
Strive Masiyiwa
#16. Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
John Hurt
#17. The worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces all the time, you can lose traction. And that affects the choice of things you get offered.
Joanne Whalley
#18. You are a survivor, and as that unwelcome designation implies, your survival - your emotional survival - will depend on how well you learn to cope with your tragedy. The bad new: Surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. The good news: The worst is already over.
Jennifer Niven
#19. The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.
Caroline Knapp
#20. A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
Don DeLillo
#22. The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.
Michel De Montaigne
#23. The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.
Janis Ian
#24. The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that's where I hide.
Kelly Lynch
#25. If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.
C.S. Lewis
#26. Other countries spend, on average, only about one-half of what the U.S. spends per capita on health care. Isn't it reasonable, therefore, for us to expect our system to rank above theirs? Unfortunately, among these twelve countries, the U.S. system is consistently among the worst performers.
T. Colin Campbell
#27. She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.
Kurt Vonnegut
#28. Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.
C.S. Lewis
#29. Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: I knew him when -
Arthur Guiterman
#30. Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we're left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.
Sandra Oh
#31. The Worst part of acting like a jerk isn't when you're doing it. Its when you realize you were.
Pete Wentz
#32. Maybe that's what we look for all our lives, the worst possible grief, to make us truly ourselves before we die.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#33. Our society had been a kleptocracy of the highest order, the government doing its best to steal from the Americans, the average man doing his best to steal from the government, the worst of us doing our best to steal from each other.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#34. Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#35. What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?
Ray Bradbury
#36. I'm the worst at teasing. I don't really know how much I can and can't say.
Tracy Spiridakos
#37. Anyway," he said, "if somebody doesn't belong in the world, there's no door they can throw him out. They can't take the world away from him and put him somewhere different. The worst thing they can do is kill him. That's all.
Dean Koontz
#38. Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.
Malcolm Forbes
#39. Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.
Cynthia Kenyon
#40. And that goddamned bald guy from The Weather Channel was in New Orleans. Everyone knew that the guy only went to the place that was going to get hit the worst. Like a bald, douche-bag weather angel of death.
S.E. Jakes
#41. The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds
my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say
unless I mess up.
William J. Clinton
#43. I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.
Steve Jobs
#44. Surely they had passed the worst. All the luck had been against them, but sooner or later even the worst luck changes.
Stephen King
#45. By choosing to hang on to one's corner of freedom even in the worst situations, we can process our world with the energy of appreciation and beauty, and create an opportunity to transcend our circumstances.
Wayne W. Dyer
#46. Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite failures, through the ripple effect of financial crisis and war, aren't Americans.
Chris Hayes
#47. When you expect something from your self and your own self disappoints you ... this is what i call a real disappointment . The worst disappointments comes from in-within.
Sameh Elsayed
#48. The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. That's the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.
Lisa Unger
#49. It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
Chris Kyle
#50. Sometimes I think together we are the worst kind of calamity." Thayer grinned back. Severine's lips burned. "Then I've never wanted to be destroyed so bad.
Calia Read
#51. With knowledge, our creation can go in any direction - from the worst kind of drama, to the most beautiful dream. Then the best way to express our creativity is with love and awareness of what we really are.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#52. We are so trained into believing the worst, into thinking some people are beyond hope. What if it's our lack of belief that makes people hopeless? What if we can change the world just by hoping for the best instead of settling for the worst?
Marilyn Grey
#53. Switch-hitting is one of the greatest things in the world and one of the worst things in the world.
Mark Teixeira
#54. Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
Noam Chomsky
#56. Who's the bigger liar?
Me or them?
Isn't lying about love the worst lie? Isn't that worse than anything I've ever done?
Justine Larbalestier
#57. I think women gather up into themselves what they have been through much more than we (men) do. To them, what is past becomes a real part of them, as much a part of them as a limb; to us it's always something external, at the best the rung of a ladder, at the worst a weight on the heel.
A.E.W. Mason
#58. It was terrible, being married to someone who thinks the worst of you.
Claire Cross
#59. We look at death from the selfish side, like: "That guy died. Oh, it's so sad." Why is it sad? He's away from all of this bad stuff that's here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he's just somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he's an angel ... or he's a spirit somewhere. What is so bad about that?
Tupac Shakur
#60. You bring out the worst in me. What can I say?"
"That's because you haven't given me the chance to bring out the best in you.
M. Leighton
#61. Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.
Caprice Crane
#62. If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what I tell girls, and what Beckham's about: you can do it, you can do it better, and you can do it in the way you want.
Gurinder Chadha
#63. The worst of these politics of revolution is this: they temper and harden the breast, in order to prepare it for the desperate strokes which are sometimes used in extreme occasions. But
Edmund Burke
#64. We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.
Desmond Tutu
#65. There is always a part
of my mind that is
preparing for the worst,
and another part of my
mind that believes if I
prepare enough for it, the worst won't
happen.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#66. I beat myself off 17 times in one day. That's the worst beating I've ever handed out. I was so sore that it was hard to get that last load out.
The Rev
#67. My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
Edmund Phelps
#69. My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty. But that wasn't the worst: before me, posed with a sort of indolence, was a voluminous, insipid idea. I did not see clearly what it was, but it sickened me so much I couldn't look at it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#70. If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.
Hildegard Knef
#71. The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.
James Fallows
#72. We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make
and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.
Ken Robinson
#73. The worst thing we can do, the absolute worst, is to do nothing.
Fritz Gerlich
#74. You don't really know who you're going to fall in love with at what time in their life. They can be the worst off they've ever been in their life, but you can't help who you fall in love with. That's part of the excitement of life - new people, new experiences.
Kirsten Dunst
#76. The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.
Adrian Rogers
#77. The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)
George R R Martin
#79. I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
Walter Anderson
#81. So we must presume that the worst, rather than the best, choice will be made. The sober and responsible elements will be defeated in the present clash.
Philip K. Dick
#82. The worst way to release bad news is to bury it in the financial statement footnotes, in the hope that no one will see it. A diligent investor or analyst always reads the footnotes, and will not appreciate having to dig so deep to uncover potentially critical information.
Steven M. Bragg
#84. The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse.
Dennis Miller
#85. The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered
about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were
still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the
horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me
into bed.
William Styron
#86. Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.
William Shatner
#87. The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.
Plato
#88. Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
Charles Dickens
#89. The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#90. I was continuously a failure in his eyes, the worst of his pupils who just couldn't seem to learn her lessons.
Heather Lyons
#91. The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
Joyce Carol Oates
#92. The worst part of Christmas is that it ends. That practically the day after, everyone carries on as if nothing else ever happens. You're expected to go back to your normal life, eat normal food, not receive presents or celebrate or be jolly and wear stupid clothing, just because the moment's passed.
Matthew Crow
#93. The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That's what gives rise to dictators.
Donald J. Trump
#94. He was and probably still is, to this day, the worst-smelling person I have ever hugged. But it was wonderful. He just wrapped his arms all the way around me. He hugged me the way that parents hug: with them doing all the work.
Heather O'Neill
#95. My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.
Ilsa J. Bick
#96. People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.
Greg Norman
#97. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#98. To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make
Antony Beevor
#99. In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship.
Jean Marzollo
#100. The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
Natasha Leggero
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