Top 100 Worst Is Quotes
#1. And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!
Emily Dickinson
#3. I told myself all that's wrong with us is misunderstanding. That's not good, but it's not the worst. The worst is not having anyone to have a misunderstanding with.
Joseph Hansen
#4. There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.
Jane Smiley
#5. You think the worst is behind you, but it's never behind you. In fact, saying something is the worst does not leave room for all the bad stuff that can follow it. You say the pain is nine, but you mean ten. You leave room.
Jennifer Gilmore
#6. The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.
Ivan Panin
#7. The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.
Ralph Nader
#8. Of all the various unpleasant ways to be aroused from a sound sleep, one of the worst is the noise of a dragon and a unicorn playing tag. Myth Conceptions by Robert Asprin
Robert Asprin
#9. You're thinking I'm not aware of the worst that could happen. I am, but I just don't believe the worst is going to happen.
J.D. Robb
#10. If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun
Alexandra Potter
#11. The worst is knowing I can't tell anybody what's happening -or what's happened- to me. Not even my mom.
Lauren Oliver
#12. What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher ... Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.
Louise J. Kaplan
#13. Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
John Dryden
#14. Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
William Shakespeare
#15. To fear to face an issue to believe that the worst is true.
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
#16. There's too much bad. The worst is mediocre. Bad is easy. There's high quality, there's pornography, and then there's bad.
Henry Blodget
#17. The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.
Jessica Lange
#19. I feel like sometimes I'm so positive and sometimes I think the worst of everything or I think the worst is going to happen. It's how I deal with stuff day-to-day, it's just how I get by really, and it's probably not the best way to be.
Ellie Goulding
#20. As a general rule, whenever guys have problems approaching girls, it's because they're afraid of rejection or they're afraid of something specific. The way that you get over a fear like that is you figure out what the worst is that can happen.
Tucker Max
#21. What sucks the worst is ... this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.
Dean Koontz
#22. But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.
G.K. Chesterton
#23. Of evils current upon earth The worst is money. Money 'tis that sacks Cities, and drives men forth from hearth and home; Warps and seduces native innocence, And breeds a habit of dishonesty.
Sophocles
#24. A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Thomas Fuller
#25. What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
Jeff Bezos
#26. The important thing is that the worst is over, ... Now comes the reconstruction.
Vicente Fox
#27. What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
Carlos Fuentes
#28. The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst is that you alone own the criticism and blame.
Ron Houston
#29. The worst is being alone and not having someone with whom I can share life, someone who sees the world from the same narrow ledge I'm standing on and who understands without always having to be explained to.
Nancy Bond
#30. You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
Randeep Hooda
#32. We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, we're planning for the worst, and the worst is now, and the car market is down more than 15 percent in France. There is so much uncertainty.
Carlos Ghosn
#33. My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.
Enrique Iglesias
#34. And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?
John Ruskin
#35. What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
Carlos Fuentes
#37. The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.
Glenn Beck
#38. As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often. What I love about 'You're the Worst' is that no female character is portrayed as a black-and-white cartoon character. We're all complicated, messy human beings.
Kether Donohue
#39. You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.
J.K. Rowling
#42. If you give up every time you don't achieve the immediate gain you want, you're just guaranteeing that the worst is going to happen ... You can't expect an easy victory after one protest march.
Noam Chomsky
#43. Most people think I am very nice; they think I'm their friend, which is lucky, but it means you're never allowed to be in a bad mood. They take it personally. The worst is when you're on holiday with your family.
Romain Duris
#45. Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
Edward Abbey
#46. Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people ... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life ... they are mean and they want to kill you.
Karl Lagerfeld
#47. Of all the things trauma takes away from us, the worst is our willingness, or even our ability, to be vulnerable. There's a reclaiming that has to happen.
Brene Brown
#48. The worst is, I remain so stone cold. Does this war make you an 'alive-dead person'? Is it not possible to remain yourself in this chaos? How long still?
Diet Eman
#49. concept: the worst is over. everything's going to be okay now.
L.J. Buchanan
#50. It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.
Pascal Mercier
#51. You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work.
Claude Monet
#53. I've come to understand that there's a good deal of value in the ritual accompanying death. It's hard to say good- bye and almost impossible to accomplish this alone and ritual is the railing we hold to, all of us together, that keeps us upright and connected until the worst is past.
William Kent Krueger
#54. I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
Fleur East
#55. The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.
Eva Green
#56. To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.
Charlotte Bronte
#57. The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper.
Mick Fleetwood
#58. The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
Arthur Miller
#59. When things are fantastic, it's hard not to expect that the worst is waiting to pounce on you from a dark corner.
Penny Reid
#60. The worst is waking up in a hospital. Your parents are there, crying. Or your mother is yelling at the doctors and nurses. You come back wrecked. You ruin everyone's day. It won't happen again. I promise.
Julie Anne Peters
#61. There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.
George Seaton
#62. Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
George Bernard Shaw
#63. This is like the calm after the storm. Everything has settled, and even though it left destruction in its wake, you know the worst is over.
Kasie West
#64. He also told me he'd just written the epitaph for his tomb: LO PEOR YA PASO. PEOR HUMILLACION QUE LA DE EXISTIR NO HAY.
THE WORST IS BEHIND. THERE IS NO HUMILIATION WORSE THAN EXISTENCE
Nicanor Parra
#65. Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.
Viktor E. Frankl
#66. Worst is a bad word," I said to him, "and I hope you do not live to see it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#68. The Church at its worst is still better than the world at its best!
Bill Gaither
#70. If the worst is a possibility, then you keep it on the table. Don't hide from it. Don't run. It can happen. And if and when it does, you need to have thought about it ahead of time. That way you're not crushed when your worst thought becomes your reality.
Charles Martin
#71. There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
Jack Gould
#72. Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.
William Inge
#73. Each side, hypocritical enough to pretend that it lives up to its own hype, is equally insistent that the other side's worst is truly all that it is. American political advertising is sinking slowly toward a level worthy of Soviet propaganda.
Os Guinness
#74. We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.
James M. Barrie
#75. The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.
Melvil Dewey
#76. Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
Patrick Ness
#77. The thing about those conditions [anxiety and depression] that sucks the worst is that you don't address the root cause, so you never see it coming. What's worse is when you don't even KNOW what the root cause is, you can never fix the problem. So that's what's really scary.
Matty Mullins
#78. What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
Karl Lagerfeld
#79. The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty; the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.
Plato
#80. Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Anatole France
#82. CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.
Mark McKinnon
#83. No matter how many times I've thought that the worst is behind us, something else always happens to remind me that the worst is yet to come.
Siobhan Davis
#84. My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.
Katherine Dunn
#85. When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up
Gary Hopkins
#86. Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today.
Mervyn King
#87. And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.
William Shakespeare
#88. Amongst the bitter fruits of life, death is not the worst by a long chalk. the worst is to live far away from oneself
Juan Jose Millas
#89. Worst is the man who abandon himself
Amit Gupta
#90. Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson
#91. That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.
David Hume
#92. At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
Agatha Christie
#93. The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
David Lloyd George
#94. All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.
Junius
#95. To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.
Ayn Rand
#96. My demon is you. My best and worst is about you: how I need you and fear for you, how I fear for myself if I lose you, how I have let myself be defined by you.
Danielle Younge-Ullman
#97. Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.
Delia Ephron
#98. Try listening to yourself sometime, alone in a transient room in a strange town. The worst is when you draw a blank, and the ash-blonde ghosts of the past carry on long twittering long-distance calls with your inner ear, and there's no way to hang up.
Ross Macdonald
#99. What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.
Julian Barnes