Exercise is done against one’s wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
I think women – relative to men – tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It’s enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more.
It’s not accidental that products get worse over time; it’s because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.
When you’re writing fiction or poetry… it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you’re doing… A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.
America’s state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that ‘treason’ is morally worse than murder or rape.
I couldn’t think of anything worse than getting naked in front of the entire world, it must take a lot of confidence to do it.
Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.
Mitt Romney would move the Court even further right, putting landmark decisions like Roe v. Wade at risk. Some say Romney would repeat the past. I disagree – he’d be worse.
We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is ‘no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.’ We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.
If you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse.
We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed.
The degree of political pressure to make MGNREGA jobs available varies massively from state to state – which is why access to MGNREGA jobs is worse in a very poor state like Bihar than in a richer state like Andhra Pradesh.
I’d love to be a Bond girl. I mean, if you’re going to be stereotyped, there are worse things to be stereotyped as.
And then I went to ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I’d never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn’t my favorite working experience.
There’s nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, ‘God! I finally nailed who this guy was!’
There wasn’t much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.
The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
I’m a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Is there anything worse than being called the ‘It Girl?’ By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.
Well, ‘They Live’ was a primal scream against Reaganism of the ’80s. And the ’80s never went away. They’re still with us. That’s what makes ‘They Live’ look so fresh – it’s a document of greed and insanity. It’s about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.
Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives – some for better, some for worse.
I don’t think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.
I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law.
In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don’t know if I’d like to make myself worse in that respect.
What I’m most pleased about is that there’s no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better – there’s a consistency.
Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
I can’t think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you’re an actor.
There is nothing worse than being mediocre at a whole bunch of different things.
Perhaps I’m not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it’s such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.
I don’t know who’s worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.
The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.
Ever since I was a teenager, I always had a very strong sense of my own personal style. Kind of for better or for worse – actually I don’t think it’s ever been for worse. The way that I dress has always been a pretty accurate reflection of my personality and my life.
The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.
I think the recovery hasn’t been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.
It’s a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it’s getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
No enemy is worse than bad advice.
These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people – things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
I’m not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.
There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I’ve fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they’ve paid you lots of money and all that.
White America is tortured by black America’s failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.
People are worried about what’s going to happen to journalism – and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
