Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
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.
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.
My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.
We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
A bad deal with Iran on nuclear weapons is worse than no deal at all.
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.
Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.
And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Republicans have said much worse things about me than any Democrat ever has.
We just have to accept who we are, and I'm a film nerd, for better or worse.
It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control.
Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'
There's worse things in life than to put sunscreen on. It means I'm going to work, which is on the beach, which is pretty wonderful.
In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales.
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.
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.
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Sometimes the more you think about an outfit the worse it gets.
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
