My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.
The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.
What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?
Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.
To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is my conviction that the intellect can be certain that in doing what most disconcerts the crowd, in pursuing the most daring, unconventional advances and explorations, it will in some highly indirect fashion serve man - and in the long run, all men.
Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.
The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.
As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.
Under the law, even the best failed. Under grace, even the worst can be saved!
James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.
It's better to find a composition through an instrument and to play it and record it because you have something. It's a composition, and the song is good. It lives as a song. The worst is when you have a song and nothing is working well when you produce it. It's not like what you expect in your imagination. It's the worst because it requires a lot of work.
True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills
It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
"Watch it. " he said at last. "I can make your life miserable. " I gave him an icy smile. "You already have, and that's why i've got the advantage. You've done your worst - but you haven't seen what i can do yet. "
To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.
Marco Rubio has got the number one worst attendance record, and they want him to be president, right?