Quotes on Worst

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

The worst thing about e-mail is that you can’t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It’s frustrating and it’s time-consuming. God bless phone calls.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.

Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.

At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for parents or children or husbands or wives or others who love them.

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.