The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
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The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
Don't be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you'll look back on them as the best times.
In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.
Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.
The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.
The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the _x000D_ worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.
The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left
Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and nobody else.
And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.
Even in the worst depression, 25% of businesses are booming - in your industry find out what they’re doing and do it.
All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.
The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.
The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
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