#wors

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#aspects #because #become #popular #reasons

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#furnace #go #gold #into #out

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. ↗

— Herodotus

#into #man #much #nothing #over

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. ↗

— Herodotus

#concerted #effort #evil #greater #greater evil

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#another #better #easier #furnished #future

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#better off #civilization #develop #expense #first

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. ↗

— Hesiod

#disorder #enemy #human #only #our

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#honor #icons #need #nobody #religious

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#felt #i #represented #worst

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#because #bored #boring #call #days