“The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,500 scientists) has provided the world community with first class assessments of the soaring temperatures the world is facing, the devastating impacts of these rises and the ways in which we can try and avoid the worst effects of global warming. We now know climate change is real and the hand of humankind in this warming is becoming clearer and clearer.” KnowsWorldWayTryingFirstsRealHandsCommunityClassGroupsWorstEffectsBecomingScientistImpactClimateClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingHumankindSoarTemperatureAssessmentFirst Class Author:Klaus Topfer
“I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.” YearsKidsGroupsTeamWorstSwimPoolInspirational TeamSwim Team Author:Lance Armstrong
“We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be this: The idea is this: Let's make the tax code of America better for very rich people; let's give substantial tax relief to the richest people we can find. Forget about the person making $40,000 a year and paying Social Security payroll tax. Forget about all those other people paying income tax; we're here to give tax relief to the richest 2% of America.” PeopleGivingYearsPersonsIdeasWould BeAmericaSocialForgetRichGroupsWorstAdviceSecurityTaxesIncomeCodeReliefSocial SecurityRich PeopleIncome TaxGiving AdvicePayrollPayroll Tax Author:Barney Frank
“The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.” FactsRunningGroupsWorstDesignIndustryUglyDamnMonkeysLsd Author:Linus Torvalds
“Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story of a group of men obsessed with putting a trivial soft drink "within an arm's reach of desire." But at the same time, it is a microcosm of American history. Coca-Cola grew up with the country, shaping and shaped by the times. The drink not only helped to alter consumption patterns, but attitudes toward leisure, work, advertising, sex, family life, and patriotism.” MenCountryStoriesAmericaDesireSexAttitudeGroupsWorstArmsGrewDrinkCivilizationGrew UpRemainsWesternPatternsAdvertisingObsessedLeisureAmerican HistoryConsumptionFamily LifeWestern CivilizationMicrocosmCoca ColaFunny StorySoft Drinks Author:Mark Pendergrast
“Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.” GroupsWorstTerribleMountainTechnologicalSnowball Author:Jase Robertson
“Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.” IfsMenWritingHumansCharacterFallSocialComedyGroupsWorstDependsEgoBehaviorTragedyImpulseOne ManVersusFoeWirePitsSocial LifeMassage Author:Rita Mae Brown
“You never want to be the worst bowler of the group-because then everyone treats you like you have cancer. "You can do it! We're praying for you." The advice starts. "Use a heavier ball." "Keep your arm straight." "You should get a vasectomy." If you're really bad at bowling like me, they'll ask if want the bumpers up. Not that bowling is that complex anyway. "You want the bumpers? We can get rid of the pins. Why don't you take this coloring book and sit in the corner?"” IfsWantShouldBookUseFunnyAsksCan DoComedyGroupsWorstAdviceLike YouArmsPrayingTreatsBallsComplexesCancerCornersLike MeYou Can Do ItPinsBowlingBumperBowlersPraying For YouVasectomy Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.” KnowsPersonsGroupsWorstFrightenedNever Fear Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.” IfsWantNeedsPresidentCommunitySimplePartyBehindsGroupsEconomicWorstSeriousPoliticianRepublicanActivityCrisisDemocraticBillionsErasPostsNeighborhoodUrgesVotersMinimumRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyStimulusHeadlinesPartisansGopPalsEconomic CrisisAcornsRegistrationCommunity OrganizingVoter Registration Author:Mark Steyn
“Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples - an ornery, undependable, and hopelessly flawed group of men - became drunk with the power of a gospel that offered free forgiveness to the worst sinners and traitors. Those men managed to change the world.” MenWorldLittlesJesusGroupsWorstImpactHistoricalCornersDrunkChanging The WorldEmpiresSinnerRighteousDiscipleFlawedTraitorRoman EmpirePhariseesOrnery Book:Grace Notes Source: Grace Notes
“My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.” EndsArtistCertainDecisionDealsGroupsWorstMembersMusicianAspectIndependentSakeCompromiseBest BusinessBusiness Decisions Author:Ziggy Marley
“If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.” PeopleIfsLooksSufferingSituationGroupsWorstInjusticeWorst Situation Author:Salma Hayek
“Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid.” I CanKidsGroupsWorstRocksKingsCome UpGentleGiantsLakesCrimsonKing Crimson Author:Duncan Sheik