T Quotes
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“The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.”
“The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 67: Autobiography Vol. 2
“The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.”
“The worst thing that can happen to an investor is to make money on his first trade; he thinks investing is easy”
“The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.”
“The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas.”
“The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.”
“The worst thing that can happen to you as a young person, is to refuse to grow up. You refuse to grow up when you believe that someone else must take responsibility for your life and life circumstances.”
Source: Know What Matters
“The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.”
“The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.”
“The worst thing that can happen to you is not striving for what you want.”
“The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”
Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
“The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.”
“The worst thing that could happen to a person smart enough to ask themselves what they have learned in the time have lived is to not have any idea at...”
“The worst thing that could happen to a person smart enough to ask themselves what they have learned in the time they have lived is to not have any idea at all..”
“The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.”
“The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.”
“The worst thing that ever happened to me on stage is someone ran forward to tell me they loved me and projectile vomited all over the stage. It was horrible.”
“the worst
thing that ever happened
to
the world
was
the white man coming across gun powder.
–– the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy”
Source: Salt
“The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them - in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales.”
Source: Treasury of Thought
“The worst thing that ever happened to you could very well be the best thing that could have ever happened to you if you don't allow it to control your mind, and keep you shackled.”
“The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it...”
Source: The Chronicles of the Virago--The Novus: Book I
“The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.”
“The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.”
Source: My Story
“The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.”
“The worst thing that humans do to themselves is stick with a past moment and wait for the same moment to repeat to fix it in a better way.”
Source: Blue House: Ten Years on The Way Home
“The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself. And the best thing that I can do is to avoid both.”
“The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.”
“The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.”
“The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.”
“The worst thing that you can do to someone who loves you is make them feel unwanted. When you stop valuing their presence, when you don't notice their efforts, when you make them feel like they are not enough for you, you don’t just hurt them, you break their love for you and their wish to do anything more for you.”
“The worst thing that's ever happened to you is not the worst thing that's ever happened to anybody.”
“The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.”
“The worst thing the Hawaiian police could have done during the Thirty Meter Telescope protest was to send an army of police officers dressed in riot gear to a peaceful sacred gathering of native Hawaiians.”
“The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.”
Source: The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Revised
“The worst thing to call somebody is crazy, it's dismissive. 'But I don't understand this person', so they're crazy. That's bullshit cause people are not crazy, they strong people, maybe their environment is a little sick.”
“The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.”
“The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.”
“The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.”
“The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.”
“The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.”
“The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.”
“The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?”
“The worst thing was that even if you did your own job, if your teammate failed to do theirs, you could be blown away along with them. And yet, if you focused only on strengthening your own defenses, someone else could get killed. All we could do was trust our teammates, and those who failed were mercilessly culled. We'd been thrown into an extreme situation that was just like the front lines. In the end, we barely slept at all.”
Source: 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult
“The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels.”
“The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.”
“The worst thing we can do is think that something we’re feeling is so wrong and horrible that we isolate ourselves from God, thinking we’re not worthy of being in His presence. We must remember that Allah doesn’t expect us to be perfect; after all, our sense of self-worth is not dependent on us, but on God. When we bring our poverty, our neediness, and our nothingness to God, He meets us with His generosity (Al-Karim), His ability to satisfy all needs (As-Samad), and His richness (Al-Ghaniy). Just as if you want light in your room you must open the blinds, if you want the shadows and dark places in your being to dissolve, you have to open your heart to the light of Allah. In essence, all of existence is just a reflection of the light of God’s grace manifesting into different forms.”
Source: Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
“The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.”