Top 100 Worst Of Times Quotes
#1. Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
Gary David Goldberg
#2. heart of mine has been shattered in a million pieces - but even during the worst of times, I had you. One of God's tender mercies. Love, Phoenix
Brenda Novak
#3. My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage - my life is a study of that.
Donald Trump
#4. It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.
Ali Smith
#5. Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.
Donna Shalala
#7. Stories Jane, are magic and magic will always carry you to wonderful places, even at the worst of times.
Elle Alexander
#8. My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.
Joe Torre
#9. Even in the worst of times, the Tamils had not expected the Sri Lankan army to shell the sick and dying.
Rohini Mohan
#10. I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
Charles Dickens
#11. I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.
Elizabeth McCracken
#12. I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
Taya Kyle
#13. Even in the worst of times, I've always known that nothing is permanent. No feeling is permanent and as much as you think bad feelings will kill you, they won't.
Jodie Sweetin
#14. The worst of times in San Francisco was still better than the best of times anywhere else.
Armistead Maupin
#15. Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.
Art Buchwald
#16. I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
John Bunyan
#17. Character is what is hidden deep, shows up in the worst of times, be it good or bad, and reflects the heart of a man.
Robin M. Bertram
#18. God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.
John Piper
#19. Ernest Ransom: These are not the best if times ... as your editorials remind us
A.A. Hayes : Why not get a Democrat back in there?
Ernest Ransom: These are not the worst of times eithers
Dingley Falls
Michael Malone
#20. Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.
Melina Marchetta
#21. This is the best of times and the worst of times. So what else is new? The bad news is that the Martians have landed in Manhattan, and have checked in at the Waldorf-Astoria. The good news is that they only eat homeless people of all colors, and they pee gasoline.
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
Maya Angelou
#23. The worst of times often create the best opportunities to make good deals. The
Donald J. Trump
#24. Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
Art Buchwald
#25. I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.
Art Buchwald
#26. People usually make bad choices when they are either angry, scared or stressed. But staying positive in your worst of times will help bring out your very best.
Timothy Pina
#27. In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
Henry Rollins
#28. A hero is an ordinary human being who does the best of things in the worst of times.
Leon Leyson
#29. Ever hear that expression, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"? That's what high school was like for me. Both of those - all the time.
Sarah Kay
#30. The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.
Nirmala Srivastava
#31. Festivals are unique. They can be the best of times or the worst. You're not playing to the converted. But those are the best shows - to see if you can make new friends and entertain them.
Andrew W.K.
#32. For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.
Hannah Arendt
#33. I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe
#34. Times will change. Peace changes even the worst of killers," Ruth said.
"Into what?" Ezekiel asked.
Peter Tieryas
#35. Walking in darkness didn't mean having to become one with it, did it? Could we not live with our inner natures without embracing the true evil we all are privy to? Humans are no less evil than the worst of vampires at times. Surely right and wrong couldn't be so perfectly cut and dried.
Trina M. Lee
#36. Many times we are our worst enemy. If we could learn to conquer ourselves, then we will have a much easier time overcoming the obstacles that are in front of us.
Stephan Labossiere
#37. If a deep-wreck diver stays in the sport long enough, he will likely either come close to dying, watch another diver die, or die himself. There are times in this sport when it is difficult to say which of the three outcomes is worst.
Robert Kurson
#38. Lord, I'm so grateful for second chances. I've messed up so many times and in so many ways. Sometimes I want to hide in the corner. But You're a God of do-overs. Thank You for redeeming even the worst situation and offering me new chances.
Various
#39. When we are at the worst times of our lives, when we are battling with something, or struggles, whatever it may be, when we are at our highest point as well, when things are going really well, we want somebody to comfort us and be there for us and to say, 'Well done.' That's Jesus!
Russell Wilson
#40. Because sometimes, and this is really important, the worst possible thing imaginable leads you to the place you were meant to be all along. Even in the most dire of times, life gives you a reason to give thanks.
Brad Boney
#41. I know you would rather think the best of someone than the worst, and I know no matter how many times they disappoint you, it doesn't make you jaded in the least.
Karina Halle
#42. Then the God punished, "I will give the happiest moments at such worst times that you won't be able to feel anything."
Take it as a punishment you want
Because this ritual of mine will always haunt
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#43. 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
#44. I want to say that even - and Bernie said this many, many times - in several of the actual public debates, she said on her worst day, Hillary Clinton's a thousand times better than Donald Trump. And Donald Trump, in my view, is a threat to the nation.
Jonathan Tasini
#45. ...if justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates at other times?
E.L. Doctorow
#46. Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, all the times you can, for as long as ever you can. Our own feelings of helplessness are our own worst enemy.
Mia Farrow
#47. Yazidis are facing the worst genocide of our times. They have been reduced from 23 million to 1 million.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#48. I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres ... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.
William, Saroyan
#49. The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.
Janis Ian
#50. I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#51. In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you're traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There's just one can set you free.
Ben Harper
#52. A man with no one to revere, Julian said, is a man alone.' At that moment, he seemed to consider such loneliness the worst of fates, a sentence he would not have imposed upon the vilest man on earth. And yet, at times, I thought now, he had seemed to impose that very loneliness upon himself.
Thomas H. Cook
#53. When you're an adult, when times are good, entire years go by in what feels like the space of one season. But the worst trick time plays on you is just how slowly the worst times in your life take you to live through.
Artie Lange
#54. Everyone has a worst time in their life. There's always a worse time. We are all either in a crisis, coming to one or coming out of one.
Andy Andrews
#55. We will be at our best when times are at their worst because of our habits, attitude and chemistry.
Lawrence Frank
#56. At times,
trust is bound to be broken,
promises are bound not to be kept,
hearts are bound to be hurt,
mistakes are bound to be make.
You are also bound to meet a person at their worst in order for you to confirm that you want to be part of their lives.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#57. While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.
George Hamilton
#58. One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.
Sean Penn
#59. I'm broken, I have a crack in me for all my life. I was made a woman prematurely, criminally early, and initiated into life from its worst side, in the false, boulevard interpretation of a self-confident aging parasite from former times, who profited from everything and allowed himself everything.
Boris Pasternak
#61. There are times in life when the best part of our life and the worst part seemingly coincide, especially those periods that demark commencement of significant personal transformation.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#62. One of the worst parts about someone dying is thinking back to all those times you didn't ask the right questions, all those times you stupidly assumed you'd have all the time in the world. And this too: how all that time feels like not much time at all.
Julie Buxbaum
#63. Ask anyone who's been around the NSBlock a few times: Key-Value Observing has the worst API in all of Cocoa.
Mattt Thompson
#64. Radio One played "Ebony and Ivory," a new song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The breakfast DJ Mike Read played it two times in a row which was pretty hardcore of him as it was clearly the worst song of the decade so far, perhaps of the entire century.
Adrian McKinty
#66. The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.
Gore Vidal
#67. Most times, the worst of situations can become a compass to the best of situations
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#69. What? I have a cold. Don't get a look of terror on your face. The worst that could happen is that you'll get a cold, too. You don't have to theatrically Purell a thousand times a day and look all panicky every time I come into the room.
Mindy Kaling
#70. In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
J. Paul Getty
#71. Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed
sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.
Jodi Picoult
#72. I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.
Robert Byrd
#73. Don't be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you'll look back on them as the best times.
Robert Kiyosaki
#74. I was five years old, onstage singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' - a rock version - and I was always wanting to entertain. But the biggest thing for me is just country music has helped me get through the worst times of my life and the best times of my life. I want to give that back to people.
Jana Kramer
#76. Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.
Charles Garfield
#77. It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times
the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie
seem attractive by comparison.
Christopher Lasch
#78. Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?
Jean Said Makdisi
#79. There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.
Alexandre Dumas
#80. Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#81. Toronto I've worked in so many times so you kind of just know every store, every hotel, every - it's really close to New York so it's awesome for my children so if I have to go home for two days it doesn't take very much time. Except for Air Canada. Air Canada is the worst part.
Mary-Louise Parker
#82. There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the times when God doesn't seem to make sense. This is the worst that life gets.
Rick Atkinson
#83. The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light in a realm of darkness ... They can equally be lethal arrows. Worst of all, at times they can be one or the other. They can even be both at once!
Vaclav Havel
#84. I may change my opinion on the same subject, the same event, ten, twenty, thirty times in the course of a single day. And to think that each time, like the worst impostor, I dare utter word "truth"!
Emil Cioran
#85. She wasn't easy to be around at the best of times, and during the worst, well, she sucked flaming balls of mean...Still she wanted his eternal admiration.
Gena Showalter
#86. It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.
Nick Jonas
#87. That little glow of comfort lasted me right through the evening but was gone when I woke up next morning. Wakings are the worst times
almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on to my heart.
Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
#88. But I know that I can survive the hard times, taking the worst of what happens to me as a burden but not as a noose .
Nina Sankovitch
#89. He wondered at times whether he didn't belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for docility or ingenuous good will they were to be shielded from the worst brutalities in life.
Saul Bellow
#90. Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.
Charles Caleb Colton
#91. People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?"
From the worst moments in my life.
I call that "literature through disaster." I got the whole Tales from Earth's End Saga that way, as well as Numenon. Don't be afraid of the hard times.
Sandy Nathan
#92. I fell in love with you at your worst. I've had some of the best times of my life with you at, as you say, your worst. So I can't even imagine how special life will be when I get to experience your best.
Nicola Haken
#93. If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.
Bo Burnham
#94. From 1 to 18 is the holly worst parts of your life, you are caged and you can't do anything times passes events happen different today your granpa is alive, but tomorrow probably he will die or the next month or later-later. But what can it be done for that??
Deyth Banger
#95. I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!
Garth Stein
#96. I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.
George Orwell
#97. I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.
Laura Benanti
#98. The worst years of my life were the first two years I was doing standup. You're learning how to do, and you're going on stage in front of two drunks and people aren't laughing and you're broke. That's a really hard time in your life.
Bill Maher
#99. One of the worst things about losing my mother at the age I did was how very much there was to regret. Small things that stung now: all the times I'd scorned her kindness by rolling my eyes or physically recoiled in response to her touch;
Cheryl Strayed
