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The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too," laughed the little old man. Said the little boy, "I often cry." The old man nodded, "So do I." But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me." And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand. I know what you mean," said the little old man.
Shel SilversteinRead
people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives
Helen PrejeanRead
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
Oscar WildeRead
Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!
J. K. RowlingRead
At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
Agatha ChristieRead
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
VoltaireRead
It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
Tom StoppardRead
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
William JamesRead
What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?
Ray BradburyRead
I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.
Jimmy CarterRead
Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.
Philip RothRead
What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.
Scott AdamsRead
Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87
Melody BeattieRead
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert FrostRead
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
AristotleRead
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Hannah ArendtRead

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