Quotes with worst-case

Quotes 441 till 460 of 466.

  • Luigi Pirandello Woman for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: ''Blind yourself, for I am blind.''
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Ben Sweetland Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.
    Ben Sweetland
    American psychologist and author
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  • Samuel Butler Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Campbell Scott Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Alfred Nobel Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Hugh Blair Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Would it not be easier In that case for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?
    The Solution [Die Lösung] After the rebellion of East German workers.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • J. P. Donleavy Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
    J. P. Donleavy
    Irish/American novelist and playwright (1926 - 2017)
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  • Billy Koch You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.
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  • Len Evans You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
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  • Buck Owens You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Bernie Sanders You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold You turn on the TV, and you hear all these guys: 'Republican Party in disarray. Turmoil in Washington.' I don't think that's the case.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Sacha Guitry A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
    Sacha Guitry
    French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Fuller Debt is the worst poverty.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Ad Reinhardt I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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