Worse For Quotes

#1. We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds, ... for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

T. S. Eliot

#2. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Is the ground worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.

Rumi

#3. You were better to the ones that were worse for you. And worse to the one that was better for you.

Pleasefindthis

#4. We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.

Alex Pareene

#5. We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

#6. There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.

Joe Montana

#7. If your countrymen think that privacy is a crime, so much the worse for your country.

James Baldwin

#8. Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#9. Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

Yann Martel

#10. Do you know that granola bars are apparently worse for you than chocolate bars? We've been had, Chris, had by the Quaker Oats man.

Laura Buzo

#11. No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;
But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm.
"How often already you've had to be told,
Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold.
Dread fifty above more than fifty below."
I have to be gone for a season or so.

Robert Frost

#12. I walked over and hugged him, knowing it would only make things worse for him. I don't get that many chances to torture Brasti.

Sebastien De Castell

#13. If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.

Gautama Buddha

#14. Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#15. Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.

Emily Bronte

#16. Certainly if after escaping from the defilements of the world by an accurate knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they get involved again with these very things and are overcome, their final state has become worse for them than the first.

Anonymous

#17. That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.

Phyllis Bottome

#18. Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being ... stuck.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#20. All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

John Milton

#21. There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.

Gary Rohrmayer

#22. It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#23. He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

Charles Caleb Colton

#24. The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

Marcus Aurelius

#25. He didn't have to explain what it was. It was there between them, that invisible bond, that strange sense of ease, as though she had known him always. As if her life would be immeasurably the worse for not having him in it.

Beatriz Williams

#26. To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

Wendell Berry

#27. It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup.

Audrey Magee

#28. It won't make you feel any better, he told me, it might even make things worse for a while. But you mustn't let the sadness die inside you. You have to give it some life.

Kevin Brooks

#29. When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'

Caitlin Moran

#30. There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

Homer

#31. Things are bad,they are,and they'll get much worse for ya soon,thats the truth.But down the road a piece,you'll be fightin' true and good.I can tell you're not a bloody sissy. -Newt

James Dashner

#32. There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.

Steve Maraboli

#33. I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.

Thomas Jefferson

#34. Part of what I like about the best villains in TV and film is when you feel sorry for them, and that makes you feel even worse for feeling guilty about wanting them to succeed, in some way.

Colin O'Donoghue

#35. Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, "Okay, you're going to be standing here, the other person is going to be standing here, and you're going to move to there and then do the scene." That doesn't help actors.

Eric Balfour

#36. If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.

William Cowper

#37. Or maybe a ghost was only a thing that endures, like the furnishings of this room, like the chairs or table; a little worse for wear, but still here because someone cherished it, or because it was made of such hardy stuff that time couldn't wear it down fast enough.

Ari Berk

#38. I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

Jane Austen

#39. Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

William Penn

#40. It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

Abu Bakr

#41. If I'd chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I'd never have known what I've lost. Do you see what I'm getting at? Sometimes it's worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.

Jostein Gaarder

#42. I reflected that had he married for attraction alone he could have had me. Had he married for money alone, he could have had Miss Vincy. Instead he had chosen a compromise between the two and had ended up with Miss Charity Winthrop. I did not think he could have done worse for himself if he'd tried.

Patrice Kindl

#43. The shutdown may have temporarily sidetracked the Republicans, yet Obamacare threatens much worse for the Democrats. By 2014 the former will be ancient history, while the latter will be an ongoing mess.

Victor Davis Hanson

#44. There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general.

Nina Bawden

#45. Crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er.

Stephanie Perkins

#46. Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.

Alex Grey

#47. A writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.

Nadine Gordimer

#48. I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just ... going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it. - Marcus

Dan Wells

#49. It was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor yet my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ Himself, the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever

John Bunyan

#50. Day by day, it's worse for my people, especially for the women. And that's why, because of all of these main reasons, we say this is the mockery of democracy and mockery of War on Terror.

Malalai Joya

#51. To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Dickens

#52. There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Aeschylus

#53. There's nothing worse for a forest than to have all the trees be the same

Ken Kesey

#54. Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

Robert Gottlieb

#55. I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.

Matthew Pearl

#56. A thousand years of dominion went ringing across the Thames like a trumpet blast. Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Norman ancestry combined in a chord that had deafened and conquered nations. It expected the moon to bow the knee. If not, so much the worse for the moon.

Ariana Franklin

#57. As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

Lizzy Caplan

#58. Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

Alexander Herzen

#59. For I suspect the next world will more plainly be a going on with this than most people think - only it will be much better for some, and much worse for others, as the Lord has taught us in the parable of the rich man and the beggar.

George MacDonald

#60. I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It's worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.

Barry Humphries

#61. Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

Jack London

#62. That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

Harold Washington

#63. Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Martin Cruz Smith

#64. Questions are as supple as willow wands, it's easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it.

Ellis Peters

#65. The one thing that has gotten worse for sports media is access. We hardly get to see, talk to and most of all get to know the players and coaches anymore.

J. A. Adande

#66. To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.

William Osler

#67. I always feel it is worse for me to allow my fears to stop me from doing what I want to do then to do it and fail.

Pat Toth-Smith

#68. You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority.

Nenia Campbell

#69. So much the better for me, so much the worse for him.

J.K. Rowling

#70. He wanted her to smile, but Julia couldn't. He was falling in love with her if he wasn't already, and that made her feel even worse for having a hesitant heart.

Melissa Jagears

#71. I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.

Terry Gilliam

#72. Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

Milton Friedman

#73. Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

Plato

#74. In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.

Erasmus Darwin

#75. Those occasional people who seem to achieve some kind of happiness here like your two dead colleagues, these are the things that Hell allows to flourish in tiny, stunted bursts, to make it immeasurably worse for everyone else.

Simon Kurt Unsworth

#76. Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.

William Lyon Phelps

#77. It's still there- my own heart, cobbled together and a little worse for wear- but it's definitely not all beat out.

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

#78. But I say that we are the enemies of society, and so much the worse for society. We are the enemies of society, for society is the enemy of humanity, its oldest and its most pitiless enemy.

G.K. Chesterton

#79. The pink rose Zayvion had given me looked a little worse for the wear, but it wasn't dead yet. Tough flowers, roses.

Devon Monk

#80. Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts; and Caderousse began to sing the two last lines of a song very popular at the time, -

Alexandre Dumas

#81. democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.

Robert D. Kaplan

#82. A man can stand almost any hardship by day, and be none the worse for it, provided he gets a comfortable nights rest; but without sound sleep he will soon go to pieces, no matter how gritty he may be.

Horace Kephart

#83. And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Wilkie Collins

#84. What would have become of Ohio State if I said everything? Half the team would have been suspended, and it would have been worse for everybody. I was like, 'Why don't I just take it?'

Maurice Clarett

#85. 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

#86. Sometimes things end worse for one side than the other. These 'injured parties' always seem to see themselves as victims of a moral outrage. They never feel simply rejected, but also abused. I've known many women who were great believers in the curative powers of indignation.

Lionel Shriver

#87. Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

Trenton Lee Stewart

#88. This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.

Tony Abbott

#89. There is nothing that you can do that is worse for yourself, than to do something that you believe is inappropriate. And so, get clear and happy about whichever choice you make. Because it is your contradiction that causes the majority of the contradiction in vibration.

Esther Hicks

#90. His running was over. His dancing was over. Worse, for some reason, the way he used to feel about things was over, too. He withdrew. Things seemed silly or pointless

Mitch Albom

#91. There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

Roger L'Estrange

#92. It's a horrible feeling - there's nothing worse for any player than to be thinking at the back of your mind that there's something wrong with you.

Jamie Redknapp

#93. To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, as long as you both shall live, including accidental or intentional immortality?

Chloe Neill

#94. Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

N. T. Wright

#95. It was pretty miserable wretches that minded at all whether they were wet or dry. He could not understand why such people had been born. "It's nothing but damned eccentricity to want to be dry" he would say. "I've been wet more than half my life and never been a whit the worse for it.

Halldor Laxness

#96. It's true; most souls come here in whatever clothing they died in, truly unfortunate for the people who died naked. Of course, it's really worse for us than them. Most people don't look good without their clothes,...

Tabitha Barret

#97. Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#98. It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.

E. M. Forster

#99. So much the worse for you!" he said mentally, like a man who, after vainly attempting to extinguish a fire, should fly in a rage with his vain efforts and say, "Oh, very well then! you shall burn for this!

Leo Tolstoy

#100. In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings ... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

John Dewey