#worse

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#in fact #orator #person #plain #tell

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

#anything #likes #living #living alone #saying

I guess life is like a novel. Some of it is written by fate, some of it is written by God... but the part we are ultimately judged by is the part we write ourselves. ↗

— Lynn Johnson

#life

If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And you’d be straining to hear the rest. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#mentions-to-movies #sookie-stackhouse #movies

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#be happy #better #find #future #happy

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. ↗

— George Santayana

#appear #argument #better #function #make

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income. ↗

— Harold Washington

#assets #day #every #every day #face

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#country #experiencing #get #going #i

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#cards #eat #man #mom #never

So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before. ↗

— Craig Benson

#away #before #get #goes #kind