And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
I build a wall around myself. I’m hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.
In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
It doesn’t get better, it doesn’t get worse, but it sure gets different!
The more I thought to myself, ‘Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?’ the worse it was… one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that’s the extent you will be in pain.
Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it’s better, and in a lot of ways it’s worse. That’s life, right?
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.
Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we’re lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it’s worse than fear – it’s active disengagement.
We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.
Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn’t until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn’t know any TV shows or music, which was even worse.
If you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse.
I wasn’t even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.
Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they’re worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don’t teach you anything.
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite – a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
I couldn’t think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I’ve seen it destroy people.
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse.
Today’s younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
I don’t know what more to say. I mean, we’re all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take my insulin injection. I feared that if the Cubs found out and I slumped badly, they would attribute it to the diabetes and send me back to the minors – or worse, release me.
Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.
Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything – for better or for worse.
Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They’re out of control and have been for some time.
When lab safety procedures aren’t followed, people can get hurt or worse. Lab equipment and chemicals that are improperly handled can result in personal injury and even death.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil’s policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with ‘On the Road’ and ‘The Dharma Bums’, I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.
I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.
If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn’t say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don’t think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can’t say that.
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There’s nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.
I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, ‘Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.’
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse.
The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
At the end of the day, is Singapore society better or worse off? That’s the test.
A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.
The costs of running a prison system as large as Arkansas’ are significant, and the system’s failures can make things worse.
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
I don’t think there’s anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they’re dead.
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I’m going to keep moving forward.
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn’t going to be like that. But now I know I’m going to be exactly like my mom. I’m going to be worse!
There are people worse off than me. I’ve had a very long run. I’m fine really. I’m just old.
That’s the reason some schools of thinking don’t rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It’s bad enough now.
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
I’m a schoolteacher. That’s even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they’re often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
I’ve always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.
There is no such thing as the worst gang because they’re all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.
It’s possible to fall in love with somebody who doesn’t treat us well, who makes us feel worse about ourselves, who doesn’t hold the same respect for us as we do for them, or who has such a dysfunctional life themselves that they threaten to bring us down with them.
I like to comprehend more or less everything around me – apart from the creation of my music. It’s an obsessive character trait that’s getting worse. I don’t switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something’s going wrong.
