The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.
Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.
You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse. . . I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.
I would not live over my hours past. . . not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.
Stumble is worse than falling, because stumble is not as instructive as the falling!
What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder. . . Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing. . . If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't.
Nothing worse than when a 6 acts like a 10.
When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.
Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.
Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.
In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles. . . . Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.