Quotes with worst-tempered

Quotes 241 till 260 of 284.

  • Helen Rowland There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Rebecca West This is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but a sure way of losing it.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Bhagat Singh Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bill Cosby Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Robertson Davies To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • William Shakespeare To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Confucius To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Georges Bataille To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • John Dryden Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Alphonse Karr Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Charles A. Garfield Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
    On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 3, Paragraph 1
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bernie Sanders We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • André Maurois We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Vauvenargues We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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