Worse Quotes - page 10

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s). (Nhat Hanh)
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort. View quote
Alain Badiou
The past was neither as good nor as bad as we suppose: it was just different. If we tell ourselves nostalgic stories, we shall never engage the problems that face us in the present-and the same is true if we fondly suppose that our own world is better in every way. The past really is another country: we cannot go back. However, there is something worse than idealizing the past-or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it. View quote
Tony Judt
What, now?” "Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy. View quote
Iain Banks
Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse. View quote
Jack Vance
Things are different from what I thought. They're much worse. View quote
Fritz Leiber
If a rumor comes out that I'm gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying. View quote
James Van Der Beek
Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint. View quote
Thomas Beecham
If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off. View quote
Nigel Short
A hat not much the worse for wear. View quote
William Cowper
I do to others what they do to me, only worse. (Jimmy Hoffa)
There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned. View quote
Anthony Trollope
The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We've now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what's gone wrong. View quote
Nigel Farage
What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from... For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift. View quote
Terry Brooks
A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse. View quote
John Gay
[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man? View quote
George Orwell
Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic. View quote
N.T. Wright
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better. View quote
Bertrand Russell
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories. View quote
Yasser Arafat
I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary. (Linus Torvalds)
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used. View quote
Charles Stross
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent. View quote
Harold Bloom
I mean, is ‘fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat' worse than ‘vindictive', ‘jealous', ‘shallow', ‘vain', ‘boring' or ‘cruel'? Not me. View quote
J. K. Rowling
Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you cant add some guilt to it and make it even worse. View quote
Bill Watterson