I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.
He who divides gets the worst share.
Naturally all of us don't think we deserve very much. We don't believe that things will go well for us in the future, generally because they may not have in the past. Our natural bent is to expect the worst. Our natural tendency is to be negative and...
At the moment of death, the real central man, the thing that chose, that made the best or the worst out of the raw material he was given at birth, will stand naked. All sorts of nice things which we thought our own, but which were really due to a goo...
We now had three girls and one testosterone-pumped guy bird that spent every walking minute doing of of three things: pursuing sex, having sex or crowing boastfully about the sex he had just scored. Jenny observed that roosters are what men would be ...
Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.
She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up
Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.
Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.
So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason — to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories aloud. "It certainly helps," Vivian says.
If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the ...
Over the years, people have often said to us that they were going through some horrible thing in their life - maybe the worst thing that had ever happened, or that they could think would ever happen - and that, somehow, in that state, we made them la...
The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.
Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.
Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy
The rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper.
As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.
