Quotes of: Worst-thing Keyword

music is the worst of them - roiling and boiling - overly emotionalized on the one hand, overly intellectuallized on the other. Bach and Mozart indeed! Bach inevitably makes me think of fish in a barrel! round and round and round they go and nothing ...

Pilgrim

The mornings were the worst. Roger told me this was Classic Depressive. He said that mornings were generally the most trying part of the day for a Classic. As Roger spoke, I would think of all the people everywhere, all over the world, who managed to...

Promising Young Women

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and machinery, capitalism and materialism go h...

The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk

Surprised by joy- impatient as the Wind I turned to share the transport-- Oh! with whom But thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, That spot which no vicissitude can find? Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind-- But how could I forget thee? Th...

The Works of William Wordsworth (Wordsworth Collection)

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and bl...

Theodore Roosevelt

We don’t like to hurt. And there is no worse pain for fallen people than facing an emptiness we cannot fill. To enter into pain seems rather foolish when we can run from it through denial. We simply cannot get it through our head that, with a natur...

Larry Crabb

What struck me, in reading the reports from Sri Lanka, was the mild disgrace of belonging to our imperfectly evolved species in the first place. People who had just seen their neighbors swept away would tell the reporters that they knew a judgment ha...

Christopher Hitchens

TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will det...

Howard Zinn

Diana Christensen: I was married for four years, and pretended to be happy; and I had six years of analysis, and pretended to be sane. My husband ran off with his boyfriend, and I had an affair with my analyst, who told me I was the worst lay he'd ev...

Network

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

Cease and Desist

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

The Complete Essays

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

The Complete Essays

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Catching Fire

I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.

The Confessions of a Misfit

It was the fear of good things happening, because they, sooner or later, would lead to something bad.

Captive

Time can only rob us of the things we can touch; it can't rob us of the things we feel.

Chips of Red Paint

Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had.

Consider Phlebas

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me..Phil 3:14

Changes From a Sunset

We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.

Ceaseless

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

The Chocolate War