Quotes 241 till 260 of 272.
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Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst.
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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 -
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.
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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.
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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.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.
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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
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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.
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
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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.
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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
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When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
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When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Where everything is bad, it must be good to know the worst.
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Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
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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.
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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.
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