“Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.” SometimesWaitingWorstProduceDiseaseStonesPatientPainfulPassingPassingsSpeculationCalculusKidneysGoutKidney Disease Author:Thomas Sydenham
“The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.” WorldSoulConsciousnessWorstProduceEmotionalWeightBreathsAbstractFatigueShortness Author:Fernando Pessoa
“That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.” WorstEffectsProduceCorruptionInstanceEnthusiasmBest ThingsSuperstitionsMaximsPerniciousTrue Religion Book:Hume: Political Essays Source: Hume: Political Essays
“Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.” WritingFeelingsStuffWorstProduceSafetyDullIntimidated Author:Lucy Prebble
“What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?” WorldWaySelfHomeNaturalWorstProduceInstinctAffectionSeekingMannersOutcomesSelf RespectPolitenessSuppressionNatural Instinct Author:Humphry Davy
“Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of masculinity - the drunk kind, the king who will yell the worst nationalist's ideas. In front of those, it is very difficult to be a dignified woman.” MenKindIdeasCertainDifficultWorstFrontsProduceFootballKingsDrunkWarriorStereotypeConformHuntersMasculinitySingularity Author:Orlan
“Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don't know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don't.” ThinkingKnowsLifeAsksEasyGrowthSituationOpinionKnowingWorstProducePersonal GrowthInvestingValuableWorst Situation Author:Ray Dalio
“Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.” ThinkingHardEvilBloodWorstProduceMastersThousandTenWeaknessVicesTyrannyCrueltyChainsLuxurySensualTyrantsApathyHarshWickednessEnergeticDespotismSlothNegligence Author:Lord Byron
“I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.” MenStruggleAliveWorstProduceCrisisManageFilmmakerProductiveMelancholyPauses Author:Jørgen Leth
“It seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence an excitable body which a sudden change can throw from the best into the worst state. Patience I must now choose for my guide, and I have done so. Divine One, thou lookest into my inmost soul, thou knowest it, thou knowest that love of man and desire to do good live therein.” MenWorldSoulStatesDoneBodyDesireFeltExistenceImpossibleWorstProduceDivineGuidesWretchedSudden Change Author:Leopold Stokowski
“It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.” BelieveSoulArtistHumanityStarsSkyWorstGreatnessProduceCircumstancesOrdinaryAdversitySurfaceAwakeningCanvasSublime Author:Richard Paul Evans