"To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage."
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"The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first."
"The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd."
"The worst loss you've ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have."
"The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst."
"The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words."
"My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision was licensing music that I don't own."
"I'm always prepared for the worst."
"I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic."
"To fear the worst oft cures the worst."
"Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young."
"Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before."
"You do your worst, and we'll do our best."
"That’s always the hardest thing when someone completely has you fooled so much, that you think they’re just never going to hurt you, then they do. That’s when you get the worst heartbreak."
"The worst evils are those that never arrive."
"While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best."
"The worst of all fears is the fear of living"
"When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised."
"I'm the worst at teasing. I don't really know how much I can and can't say."
"My parents were my worst audience."