When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.
The Americans I know are not willing to abandon our police and our great Democratic experiment to the pathetic cowardice – or worse – of the progressive Left.
Family politics are worse than world politics. That’s all I can say. You don’t get to choose your family; you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.
With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
I had older brothers, and I don’t think there’s anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.
Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law’s flat.
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It’s not worse than anybody else’s life.
I can laugh at myself because I’ve had to. Everything would have been much worse if I’d been the singing son of Nat ‘King’ Cole.
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow’s bafflement or, worse, ridicule.
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I’m going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.
I think America has dealt with – I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don’t live in America – but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.
For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can’t showcase in Aaron Sorkin’s work.
Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.
The American people and the entire world need to understand that the threat to life on earth resides in Washington and that until Washington is fundamentally and totally changed, this threat will remain as the worse threat to life on earth.
Although it’s hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don’t do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually.
I think it’s pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It’s love or hate.
‘The Godfather’ changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man’s film career when I was 29.
Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
When I play in the Super Bowl, the biggest stage we have, I have to give up the first touchdown. To make it worse, I’m running behind the guy, not next to him.
When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
You want to work with good people. When you’re working with good people, it frees you up. There’s nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don’t feel like you’re in good hands.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
There’s nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.
The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they’re dying in vain right this very second. And you know what’s worse than a soldier dying in vain? It’s more soldiers dying in vain. That’s what’s worse.
If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they’re entitled to know – or worse, feed false information – those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
You know the bark is worse than the bite in D.C.
If someone is better than you at something, then it’s likely because she has failed at it more than you have. If someone is worse than you, it’s likely because he hasn’t been through all of the painful learning experiences you have.
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.
There’s nothing worse than being stuck with a bad song.
There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You’re embarrassed by your parents, and you’re trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.
I don’t think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.
Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere – everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we’re all living in different worlds because we’re on different continents.
Health has always been my first priority. If it’s something that is going to make it worse, or if I’m not cleared by the doctors, then, you know, I won’t step on the field.
After a sound drubbing followed by half a day’s fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.
There’s only one thing worse than a man who doesn’t have strong likes and dislikes, and that’s a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.
If something can be said to make an awkward moment even worse, I’m going to say it.
That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I’m still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.
Last year we said, ‘Things can’t go on like this’, and they didn’t, they got worse.
Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I’ve seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.
