#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

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

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#burning #crimes #reading #than #them

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#around #contrast #earn #economic #enables

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#almost #breaches #business #communications #confidential

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#ever #fear #goes #heart #itself

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds. ↗

— Edward Coke

#crime #deeds #invites #success #worse

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse. ↗

— Rudolph Valentino

#generalize #infinitely #specialize #them #women

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else. ↗

— Sean Connery

#anything #doing #else #even #even worse