The Worst Thing Quotes

#1. It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it.

Kate DiCamillo

#2. The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it ... I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#3. You know what the worst thing about adults is?"

"No."

"They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#4. Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were prepared to spend your life flinching from is suddenly just another piece of information.

Shelley Jackson

#5. The worst thing a boy could do to a girl is ignore her while she is loving you with all her heart

Liam Payne

#6. The worst thing about wishes is that sometimes they come true

Stephen King

#7. To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear

Marilynne Robinson

#8. The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

Pauline Kael

#9. You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it's either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won't be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.

Ben E. King

#10. The worst thing one can do for a hyperactive child is to put him or her in front of a television set. Television activates the child at the same time that it cuts the child (or adult) off from real sensory stimulation and the opportunity for resolution.

Jerry Mander

#11. The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#12. Not so long ago I'd been convinced that losing my voice was the worst thing that could ever happen to me, the worst tragedy. But since then I'd been losing my whole self, everything I stood for, believed in, felt. Everything I ever wanted to be. Everything I ever was.

Sarah Ockler

#13. The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

Helen Keller

#14. The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.

Catherynne M Valente

#15. It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.

Walt Disney

#16. in America the worst thing you could be was a black man. Worse than dead, you were a dead man walking.

Yaa Gyasi

#17. The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

Sarah Dessen

#18. The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

Oscar Wilde

#19. The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#20. same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, "although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge," wrote Orwell, tends to be "uninterested in what happens in the real world." Nationalism

Timothy Snyder

#21. I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.

Colin Firth

#22. But seeing and doing nothing isn't the worst thing," Hera had said. "The worst thing is to see and not to care.

John Jackson Miller

#23. As far as I'm concerned, this is the worst thing that's happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

Cassandra Clare

#24. People mess up, you know? But you can't see past it. It's like you choose one thing about them - the worst thing - and say, 'That's who they are,' and ignore the rest of it. Why not choose the best thing about them instead? Or the thing they do the most?

Sarah Skilton

#25. I hate vodka. It is the second worst thing to have come out of Russia, after communism - which isn't Russian anyway, Karl Marx was Russian.

Param Vyas

#26. It's the strongest love that makes the greatest treachery. The worst thing you can say to somebody is that you will be there no matter what and then fail to show.

Walter Mosley

#27. The worst thing that could happen is that we hold back and play tentative because we "fear" disappointment. If we cannot accept the possibility we might fail, we most certainly are not prepared to succeed.

Mike Margolies

#28. Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.

Cassandra Clare

#29. That's the thing I'm worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of loopholes. 'Oh, I'm just going for a walk, up a dune that's 45 degrees, but I'm walking, so it's not a workout.'

Ronda Rousey

#30. Of all the worst things I could do,
why, oh why, did I choose to be happy?

Someone

#31. Make love to me
like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
Go slow.
I'm new to this.

Buddy Wakefield

#32. It's decidedly bizzare, when the Worst Thing hppens and you find yourself still conscious, still breathing.

Elisa Albert

#33. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

Oscar Niemeyer

#34. There's always been violence in movies, and there will always be violence in movies. Whether it lends to the one psychotic that's out there, thinking the worst thoughts you could possibly thing, is always going to be a mystery.

Josh Brolin

#35. The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

Conor Oberst

#36. What a different world it would be if we walked around with signs that proclaimed the worst thing that had happened to us.

Skye Warren

#37. The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed.

John Curran

#38. The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#39. The worst thing in the world is to have regrets. You will always have a few, but they shouldn't be ones that keep you up at night.

Viola Shipman

#40. The worst thing in the world is to be tired.

Britt Ekland

#41. I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

Chaka Khan

#42. You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.

Donald Hall

#43. One day you stepped in snow, the next in mud, water soaked in your boots and froze them at night, it was the next worst thing to pure blizzardry, it was weather that wouldn't let you settle.

E.L. Doctorow

#44. As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it.

Jonathan Gold

#45. Robots get to see the worst of the human condition on a daily basis. Good thing they don't have feelings.

Martin McConnell

#46. The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

Carlos Santana

#47. You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but not cocky. You have to realize that you can lose. We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down.

Lamar Odom

#48. The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart.

ASAP Rocky

#49. The worst thing that happened to air travel in the past ten years was the bankruptcy of Xhibit Corp., the parent company of SkyMall. I recalled with clarity the first time I boarded a flight and it was missing from all usual nooks and crannies. It had been a dark day.

L. H. Cosway

#50. The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

Ted Turner

#51. People think you're really confident because you're an actress or whatever, but I'm, like, the worst. Although the good thing about being recognizable is that people approach me, which is good.

Rebel Wilson

#52. The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

Russell Baker

#53. The worst thing that can happen to us is that our wings melt and we fall into the sea.

Kevin James Moore

#54. I closed the door. Other people got husbands and children; I got a bag of lettuce. I hurled myself on the floor and sobbed. The worst thing about trying to get myself undepressed were the days when it seemed like I hadn't made any progress at all.

Debby Bull

#55. I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.

Steven Holl

#56. The first thing I crave when I'm dieting is the worst thing for me. I have come to realize that the same is true when I set new relationship standards.

Steve Maraboli

#57. The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

Agnes Martin

#58. Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is

Edwin Louis Cole

#59. The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

Yo-Yo Ma

#60. The worst thing that you can do for yourself is to sit back and do nothing. You're stronger than you realize.

Yasmin Shiraz

#61. The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.

Brian Greene

#62. Why didn't we do this then? Probably because we had class on Monday morning. But I wish we had taken that ferry when we had the chance. What was the worst thing that could have happened? We would have missed class.

Matthew Quick

#63. The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

Bernie Taupin

#64. Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

Fiona Apple

#65. The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

Ellen Glasgow

#66. What's the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people's lives. Where I've either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That's the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can't get that back.

Chester Bennington

#67. The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

Deborah Reber

#68. Felt like yesterday, all that bodily joy. Begun so young they didn't even know what they were doing and they wouldn't give it up, so when they were old enough, they married. Not the worst thing to build a marriage around, such juice. The first years had been delirious, the latter ones merely happy.

Lauren Groff

#69. The worst thing of all was very simple: the disruption of the illusion of safety. That if you were a good person who worked hard and stayed within the law, you'd always be okay.

Edward W. Robertson

#70. I think the biggest insult, the worst way you can offend a Mexican, is to insult their mother. A mother is the most sacred thing in life.

Emiliano Salinas

#71. If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

Daniel Kahneman

#72. That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?"

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#73. When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.

Theodore Roosevelt

#74. As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.

Matthew Perry

#75. I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

Mike Nichols

#76. Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

Bruce Barton

#77. That's the thing about fear. It brings out the worst in us.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#78. The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way.

Sonia Sotomayor

#79. Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.

Richard Bach

#80. The worst thing about somebody who betrays you, somebody who turns out to be a completely different person to whom you first thought, is the love that you still feel in your heart for them, embedded so deeply into the narrow spaces of yourself that you cannot access it to try and remove it. He

Yrsa Daley-Ward

#81. Anything I shouldn't laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I'm bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I'm thinking to myself, 'If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,' and then I start laughing and I can't stop.

Simon Cowell

#82. The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it ...

Michael K. Bialys

#83. I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.

Jeff Zucker

#84. Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

Jo Nesbo

#85. Yvan's a very tolerant bloke, which of course, when it comes to relationships, is the worst thing you can be.
Yvan's very tolerant because he couldn't care less.

Yasmina Reza

#86. The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

Helen Keller

#87. I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

William Manchester

#88. My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.

Harold Evans

#89. The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

John Gerzema

#90. There's something very comforting about watching a Hugh Grant movie. You know no one's head will be blown off in the first three minutes, no one will be tortured, and the worst thing that might happen is seeing a lanky Welshman eating mayonnaise in his underpants

Ali McNamara

#91. The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice movie.' But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue about the film on the sidewalk ... I think we're all seeking dissension, and we love to affect an audience.

Paul Haggis

#92. The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

Terence Winter

#93. In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

#94. But for me, I am anot afraid, because the worst thing that could happen is getting to see "my Father eye to eye.

Max Lucado

#95. The worst thing about depression is how true your vision seems, like misery is the only correct perspective and everything you think when you're happy is a sham. I didn't even want to be happy anymore because I'd rather live in honest misery than fake bliss. I

Michelle Tea

#96. Green synthetic practice mats are the worst thing for your golf game that I know of. You can hit six inches behind the ball and not even know it, because the ball still gets airborne. Practice nets are awful, too. Swing a weighted club instead.

Lee Trevino

#97. The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.

Brian Austin Green

#98. Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.
There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question.

Dee Williams

#99. The best thing about search is you always find what you want. The worst thing about search is you never find what you do not want.

Joshua Cohen

#100. The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

Stephen Rea