Quotes 21 till 40 of 216.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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After all, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I'm talking about.
Love and Death (1975) -
Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
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All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
Robinson Crusoe (1719) -
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
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Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
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Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.
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An ''unemployed'' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears.A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 4 -
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
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As both capitalist and communist states - not to mention the technological world - have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
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