Worst Things Quotes

#1. Embarrassing ourselves in front of strangers is literally one of the worst things that can happen to us. It's in the slot where polio used to be. Awkwardness, rejection, missing out. We've conquered everything else and these constants of human life are all that remain to bedevil us.

Alexandra Petri

#2. Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were prepared to spend your life flinching from is suddenly just another piece of information.

Shelley Jackson

#3. That's the worst of growing up,
and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so
much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful
to you when you get them.

L.M. Montgomery

#4. The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

Nancy Reagan

#5. But since C had disappeared, the fantasies that obsessed me were all the worst things I could imagine at any given time.

Alexandra Kleeman

#6. The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Love can either be your greatest companion or your worst enemy, depending on your pride to accept or deny things.

Anthony Liccione

#8. One personal tip that my trainer gave me was, "Don't take things personally. People are calling on the worst days of their lives and you're their first point of contact. Be like a duck and let the water roll off your back." I live by those words when I'm at work.

Cameron West

#9. Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.

Anna Quindlen

#10. Love and desire...they aren't the same but they go hand in hand. To say you love someone is to say you have the desire for good things for them, that you desire to DO good things for them. One of the worst things the enemy does is change the definition of love in the minds of a people.

J. Evan Johnson

#11. Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

John Baldessari

#12. One of the worst things in the world today, the unkindness of woman to woman. You

Agatha Christie

#13. Of all the worst things I could do,
why, oh why, did I choose to be happy?

Someone

#14. It's decidedly bizzare, when the Worst Thing hppens and you find yourself still conscious, still breathing.

Elisa Albert

#15. 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

#16. I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

John Owen

#17. More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Dick Morris

#18. I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

L.M. Montgomery

#19. The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

John Silber

#20. One of the worst things you can die with is potential.

Henry Cloud

#21. Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#22. Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never have his own way-- or always to have it. She doesn't know which is th' worst.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#23. Vin shook her head. "No, not me. I'm not a good person or a bad person. I'm just here to kill things."
OreSeur watched her for a moment, then settled back down. "Regardless," he said, "you are not my worst master. That is, perhaps, a compliment among our people.

Brandon Sanderson

#24. Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

Jules Verne

#25. Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

J.K. Rowling

#26. There are worst things in life than kissing boys

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#27. The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.

Marilynne Robinson

#28. Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

Diego Rivera

#29. Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Laurence J. Peter

#30. When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.

Miguel Syjuco

#31. The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

Jerry Saltz

#32. The worst form of equality is to try to make equal things that are their reciprocal opposite complimentary.

Nityananda Das

#33. Monsters are bad things, but monsters that do not walk and talk like monsters are the worst.

Matthew Dicks

#34. One of the worst things you can do if you're worried about breast cancer is to cook beef, pork, fish or poultry at a high temperature - which includes frying, grilling and roasting.

Michael Greger

#35. The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge
the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who we are that we can't bear to look at them.

John Verdon

#36. You can never take anything personally. Just a story. It's not their fault they want to kick you and it's certainly not yours. It's just the way things are. Sometimes you need to hear the worst, so you have no fear in what you do and learn to work around the what-have-you.

Initially NO

#37. I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

Mike Nichols

#38. I know that when things are at their worst, something better is just around the corner if we just put one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward.

Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#39. Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.

Richard Bach

#40. I will tell you this my darlings, the very worst regrets are the things you couldn't have handled any other way.

Jamie Mason

#41. The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

John Gerzema

#42. Guilt is the greatest monster. Remorse, a killer. But the worst are the memories. Yet sometimes, they are the only things that keep our people alive.

Melina Marchetta

#43. Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.

Veronica Roth

#44. When you get divorced and you don't get the house (which I never did), you leave behind all sorts of things you don't have the sense to know you'll someday wonder about, or wish you still had, or, worst of all, feel genuinely nostalgic for.

Nora Ephron

#45. One of the worst things that happened to black people in America historically is integration. People ask me why I say that and I tell them it's because we gave up all of our control.

David Banner

#46. Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

John Caudwell

#47. Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

Gregory David Roberts

#48. It is when things are at worst you will get the best.

Santosh Kalwar

#49. I was so grateful that Lemony Snicket wasn't the worst movie ever made that I overlooked many things that might have otherwise upset me.

Daniel Handler

#50. Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.
There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question.

Dee Williams

#51. The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

Stephen Rea

#52. If there is a devil, his greatest tool is division. He divides us into this group and that group and whispers that the worst, most embarrassing thing we can do is jump sides. The worst thing we can do is change our minds. Now, how silly is that? I change my mind about things every day.

S.T. Rogers

#53. Socrates: "The corruption of the best things are the worst things." Or, "The best, when corrupted, become the worst." As one of your English poets has said, "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Peter Kreeft

#54. The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

Marc Maron

#55. I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

Jennifer Egan

#56. Historians say that revolutions come in a country not when things are at their worst but when they begin to improve, when an entire generation has been well fed, sheltered, and educated so that it feels its strength in a way previous generations, ignorant, ill fed, and unhealthy, did not.

Mark Bowden

#57. Humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. Harry

J.K. Rowling

#58. He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.

Alice Sebold

#59. You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.

Andrew Solomon

#60. The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.

Denzel Washington

#61. I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.

Loren Mazzacane Connors

#62. When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

Bobby Knight

#63. God uses some of the worst times to do great things.

Molly Evangeline

#64. I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

James Lipton

#65. The things that hurt us the worst in life end up being the same as those that mean to us the most.

Ramona Matta

#66. When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.

Don Shula

#67. You just can't believe how quickly things happen in football and the way life turns. I went from being the bad guy, the worst player who gets all the criticism, to being the player who makes the difference and scores the important goals.

Luis Suarez

#68. A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.

Sasha Azevedo

#69. I know I'm mean to tell you these things, but he is much worse than I am. He has the worst kind of meanness, that of superficiality.

Elena Ferrante

#70. If you wish to find the past preserved, follow the million feet of the crowd. At the worst the uneducated only wear down old things by sheer walking. But the educated kick them down out of sheer culture.

G.K. Chesterton

#71. 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

#72. Those words tasted bitter.
But the worst part was that those words were living inside me. And they were leaking out of me. Words were not things you could control. Not always.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#73. Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst.

Virginia Postrel

#74. The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

Yehuda Berg

#75. I was bad, I had done bad things, I had hurt people, and the worst of it was, I didn't want to stop. Blue

Janet Fitch

#76. I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst ... In other words, I had a life.

Richard Pryor

#77. For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is so ruinous as a forced 'twist,' I think.

Nic Pizzolatto

#78. One of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That's just not true.

Dick Cheney

#79. The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. Harry lay there, lost for

J.K. Rowling

#80. The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.

Eric Burdon

#81. The worst thing about our problems is that nobody has nothing to do with them

Mario Quintana

#82. That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

Ellen Glasgow

#83. The worst things in life come free to us

Ed Sheeran

#84. Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

Elin Hilderbrand

#85. Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#86. 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

#87. Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.

T. Boone Pickens

#88. We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

Joyce Meyer

#89. I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"

Jennifer Lopez

#90. I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank it, or hit it out-of-bounds. But even if one of those bad things happens, I've got a little money in the bank, my wife still loves me, and my dog won't bite me when I come home.

Cary Middlecoff

#91. When I was younger and inexperienced, I was a very animated pitcher. I pitched with a lot of adrenaline. I was my own worst enemy when things weren't gong well.

Randy Johnson

#92. His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief ... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.

Robin Hobb

#93. A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#94. It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.

Markus Zusak

#95. That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

Michael Connelly

#96. The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.

Patricia McConnell

#97. Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.

Richard Bach

#98. There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.

Ross Kemp

#99. In eternity people's lives could be altogether what they were and had been, not just the worst things they ever did, or the best things either.

Marilynne Robinson

#100. Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive

Euripides