Worse Than Quotes

#1. In my view, the greatest threat to America's future isn't hiding in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan; it's right here at home. Baby boomers like myself are on course to become the first generation of Americans who leave things in worse shape than they found them.

David Walker

#2. Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#3. I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do ...

Tony Stewart

#4. Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.

Livy

#5. The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#6. I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#7. Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment - far worse than my abandonment - how it goaded me! It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it sickened me when remembrance thrust it farther in.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. Her parents had gone from a couple who would be different, who would be better than anyone, who were determined to be better than most, to a couple who would be different because they were worse.

Lorrie Moore

#9. For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

Jimmy Carter

#10. But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

Ransom Riggs

#11. The only think worse than a boy who hates you; a boy who loves you.

Markus Zusak

#12. There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Ruth J. Simmons

#13. That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

Scott Ritter

#14. It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.

Ibn Ata Allah

#15. No hell could be worse than an office job.

James Wymore

#16. Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.

Rufus King

#17. He remembered the forceful hand that cast him to the earth. He'd fallen like a shooting star, his flesh burning until his wings fell away. Pain was something he had never known before. But even worse than the physical affliction was the knowledge that he would forevermore be denied Heaven.

James Burnham

#18. Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.

Allison Anders

#19. They have terrified my poor wife and threatened my very person!"
Halt eyed the man impassivley until the outburst was finished.
Worse than that," he said quietly, "they've wasted my time.

John Flanagan

#20. There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

David Adams Richards

#21. The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Publilius Syrus

#22. That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

Isobelle Carmody

#23. Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

Tryon Edwards

#24. Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

Horace Mann

#25. An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Idries Shah

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

Yaa Gyasi

#27. It's worse than a disease. It's a poison.

Lauren Oliver

#28. 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

#29. Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs.
At least I don't have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.

LeAnne Mechelle

#30. Hope is a demon worse than your Pain.

Gena Showalter

#31. Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.

Thomas Sowell

#32. I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.

Timothy Dalton

#33. 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

#34. Religion that is confined to the sanctuary is worse than no religion at all, for it is false.

C. Hassell Bullock

#35. then there's nothing worse I can wish on you than to be exactly the fuckhead you so obviously are.

Iain M. Banks

#36. 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

#37. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

Henry David Thoreau

#38. I prefer to doubt everything. Such a disposition does not preclude a resolute character. On the contrary, as far as I am concerned, I always advance more boldly when I don't know what is waiting me for me. After all, nothing worse than death can happen-and death you can't escape!

Mikhail Lermontov

#39. There are worse things that can happen to an enemy of the state than Gitmo. Hate to say it, hate it to be the truth, but there it is.

Jonathan Maberry

#40. Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Perle

#41. Like most disguises, the cover-up was worse than honest flaw, a lesson I had yet to register on my own account.

Lionel Shriver

#42. HIV/AIDS is the greatest danger we have faced for many, many centuries. HIV/AIDS is worse than a war. It is like a world war. Millions of people are dying from it.

Nelson Mandela

#43. We think we know."
"Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.

William Golding

#44. You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

Edward Albee

#45. You look worse today than you did when you had two black
eyes."
"Why, thank you, Tyler. You always say the sweetest things.

Gwen Hayes

#46. What we've also got to think about is the limitations of military power. Maybe it's time to focus on the economic issues, and most of all the political issues, because the political failure in Iraq right now is almost worse than the military failure. And the two are intertwined.

Paul Rieckhoff

#47. Mariella felt as if there were signs all around her that losing what you loved was worse than never having it to begin with.

Erika Robuck

#48. Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.

Alexandra Potter

#49. There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

Stephen Fry

#50. The terrorism danger to the United States is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans.

Newt Gingrich

#51. In some respects, grief for the lost and missing is worse than grief for the dead, and sometimes just for a fraction of a second its intensity makes her wish Mikal would cease to exist, so she wouldn't have to wonder if she will ever see him again.

Nadeem Aslam

#52. The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Dorothy Parker

#53. Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.

Ashley Banjo

#54. One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

Georges Courteline

#55. If labor's worse than this, I'll hang myself. I'll literally take a knife and slit my throat.

Kim Kardashian West

#56. Nothing worse than when a 6 acts like a 10.

Bill Burr

#57. Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

Alexandra Bracken

#58. Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

Rand Paul

#59. It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.

Henry David Thoreau

#60. My parents aren't hippies. I'm North as in the North Pole. Unfortunately. My brother is Nicholas, and my sister is Noelle.
Wow. God. That's
About a hundred times worse than your name.
I was going to say devoted. Festively devoted.

Stephanie Perkins

#61. There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ...

Nancy Mitford

#62. Sometimes I cannot understand the things men do. The way they gnash and tear at one another - it's worse than wolves or foxes.

Janette Oke

#63. I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

Charles Barkley

#64. Worse than getting kicked out of your slot to go on to a winning season is to lead during a losing one. Nobody wants to be king of the losers.

A.D. Aliwat

#65. There was also the fact that sometimes vampires committed crimes worse than murder. They commited crimes against fashion.

Cassandra Clare

#66. It's always fun to be able to have a voice, because it helps me to stay in tune with the project and the people that I am working with. Ther's nothing worse than being on a project and not being able to have a voice. I don't like that.

Martin Lawrence

#67. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Robert A. Heinlein

#68. There is only one thing worse than arguing with a drunk,' Faradan Sort said, 'and that's arguing with a drunk who's right.

Steven Erikson

#69. Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#70. Putting it another way: A group of fat teenagers who lost 25 percent of their body weight were in worse health than teenagers with anorexia. It

Rebecca Jane Weinstein

#71. everyone has scars," she says. "A lot of them even worse than mine. The only difference is that mine are visible and most people's aren't." I

Colleen Hoover

#72. Error is worse than ignorance.

Philip James Bailey

#73. The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Will Rogers

#74. As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never best found there, and it is subverted, time and again, by ancient savagery and superstition.

Sam Harris

#75. No person is ever truly their online or media persona. For better or for worse, the human condition, desires, and faults are so much more robust than pixels on a screen or words beneath a caption.

L. H. Cosway

#76. There are no "good" or "bad" people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.

Tennessee Williams

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

Linda Greenlaw

#78. If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.

Paul McCartney

#79. It didn't do to ignore men. The majority of them were harmless, with nothing worse than a low capacity to irritate - they were worse than chiggers but not as bad as bedbugs, in her view.

Larry McMurtry

#80. The men had to use condoms. You didn't want to get hit by that stuff, flying. I said be kind and I did something worse than flying cum. I threw up all over him. I couldn't stop throwing up. That's not sexy.

Ian McDonald

#81. When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

Dale Carnegie

#82. I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this.

Michael York

#83. Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this
in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer
and at your hands.

Jasper Fforde

#84. Humans do worse things with money rather than for money.

M.F. Moonzajer

#85. You could do worse than to be amazed.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#86. This conference was worse than a Rorschach test: There's a meaningless inkblot, and the others ask you what you think you see, but when you tell them, they start arguing with you!

Richard Feynman

#87. There's nothing worse than a perceptive universe if there's something weird about you.

Philip K. Dick

#88. As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#89. It's a breath you took too late.
It's a death that's worse than fate.

Elvis Costello

#90. The most reliable thing on earth is a druggie's cravings. I think they are worse than mine.

Alessandra Torre

#91. What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.

Yasser Arafat

#92. But when he looked at her - and she looked at him - they both knew that there was something worse than kissing the wrong person. It was wanting to.

Kristin Hannah

#93. I think it's better to find somebody who's worse at everything than you. It just makes you constantly feel so good about yourself. And then, you can constantly talk about how good you are at everything, and how terrible they are at everything.

Katherine Heigl

#94. Very few old folk are happy, Irina. Most of them are poor, aren't healthy, and have no family. It's the most fragile and difficult stage of life, more so than childhood, because it grows worse day by day, and there is no future other than death.

Isabel Allende

#95. 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

#96. No one else could be benefited by such a belief as this; for were I persuaded that Charlotte had any regard for him, I should only think worse of her understanding than I now

Jane Austen

#97. I find the medicine worse than the malady.

John Fletcher

#98. If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Mikhail Bakunin

#99. Superbe! Charmant! exclaimed the ladies; for they all used to chatter French, each one worse than her neighbor.

Hans Christian Andersen

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

Kathleen Troia McFarland