Worse Case Quotes

#1. And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

Joseph Hall

#2. Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

William Shakespeare

#3. You may have noticed how extremes call to each other, the spiritual to the animal, the caveman to the angel. You never saw a worse case than this.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. There's always a worse case than your worst case, and more often than not, it happens.

Joe Abercrombie

#5. It's been my experience that worse-case scenarios are very rare indeed. Rare to the extend that you can almost count on them not happening.

Richard Laymon

#6. Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. 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

#8. The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#9. There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.

Richard Paul Evans

#10. The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.

Maxim Gorky

#11. But then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!

Martin Luther

#12. Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

Abu Bakr

#13. Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the best-case scenario, anyway) absolutely right.

Anthony Bourdain

#14. She's not a demon, she's a woman. In this case, that's worse.

Alice Hoffman

#15. You asked me just now for the truth
well, the truth about any girl is that once she's talk about she's done for; and the more she explains her case the worse it looks.

Edith Wharton

#16. I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see the case for free choice put forward with all the energy of so distinguished and powerful a mind, but with no other effect than to make things worse than before.

Martin Luther

#17. The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.

Neko Case

#18. Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

Mary Wesley

#19. It's not going to help the country to be subsidizing uneconomical forms of energy - whether you call them 'green,' 'renewable' or whatever. In that case, the cure is worse than the disease.

Charles Koch

#20. Tallow was nervously aware that his name was on the worse cold-case dump CSU had ever seen. He was not looking forward to having them look at him and judge by eye exactly how much his organs might be worth on the black market.

Warren Ellis

#21. I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

Adam Arkin

#22. She's not a demon, she's a woman," my mother said sadly. "In this case, that's worse.

Alice Hoffman

#23. I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.

Mika Brzezinski

#24. Hope is a cancer. One of two things happens. Either you never learn the truth, in which case it gnaws down to the bone until there's nothing left, or worse, you do, and you go through that windshield at ninety because hope told you it was okay to make the drive without a seat belt.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#25. How often is such the case with us: some sore trial presses, and we cry unto God for relief, but before His answer comes, matters appear to get worse. Ah, that is in order that His hand may be the more evident.

Arthur W. Pink

#26. For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.

Steve Case

#27. Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

#28. My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of gastroenteritis. Everything feels so much worse when you don't speak the language, and you need that reassuring conversation as a mum, but you can't have it.

Louise Nurding

#29. Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don't even go looking for angels.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. 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

#31. Would it be better to have a president who cries easily? Well, that depends on what he cried about. I would not like the thought of a president who could not cry. That would be worse than one who cried over the right things. Which, in this case, would be the things I would cry over.

Walter Cronkite

#32. Short, dark, and slight, he looks simultaneously middle-aged and prepubescent, a little worse for wear in any case with his black hair matted like a street cat and his eyes crusted over and bleary.

David Winner

#33. Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.

Keith Olbermann

#34. Every celebrity case I've been involved in - I've been involved in a great many - the one thing you can be sure of is they don't get the same justice as everybody else. It could be worse, it could be better, it's never the same.

Alan Dershowitz

#35. You read card after card until you're talking so fast that it's hard to tell whether you're giving your rebuttal or suffering from a grand mal seizure. And you claim that every case you argue will lead to some kind of apocalypse or nuclear war or worse. Because

Katie A. Nelson

#36. When you make a mistake, don't make a second one
keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

George Horace Lorimer