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If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war, politically and militarily, the unanimous choice would have been Korea. Adams
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
What America does best is to understand itself.What it does worst is to understand others.
At worst, one is in motion; and at best, Reaching no absolute, in which to rest, One is always nearer by not keeping still.
If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment.We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
He writes as fast as they can read, and he does not write himself down His worst is better than any other person's best His works (taken together) are almost like a new edition of human nature. This is indeed to be an author!
No worst, there is none.Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Cheer upthe worst is yet to come.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Nous n'e coutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les no" tres, Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu. We only trust our own instincts And only believe the worst when it comes true.
It is always easy to find fault with a classification. There are a hundred ways of arranging any set of objects, and something mayalmost always be said against the best, and in favour of the worst of them. But the merits of a classification depend on the purposes to which it is instrumental.
Upon my honour, I saw a Madonna Standing in a niche Above the door of the private whore Of the world's worst son of a bitch.
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
Le pire des malheurs en prison, pensa-t-il, c'est de ne pouvoir fermer sa porte. The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.
Well, if the worst comes in the end of all, it'll be great game to see if there's none to pity him but a widow woman, the like of me, has buried her children and destroyed her man.
Well-founded fear, whichtakes onethrough the valleyof the shadow of death without abandoning one there, is what makes the worst of worse journeys; the situation is made all the more intense when the fear is somehow mingled with delight.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. SeeAchebe 2:18.
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