“Then your hearts hardened after that, so that they were like rocks, rather worse in hardness; and surely there are some rocks from which streams burst forth, and surely there are some of them which split asunder so water issues out of them, and surely there are some of them which fall down for fear of Allah, and Allah is not at all heedless of what you do.”
quran
“Sure, it's hard. But it would be much worse if we didn't prepare, got the bid and we weren't ready. We'll focus, train hard and hope the cards fall our way.”
Alfred Reft
“It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!”
David Lee Roth
“Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two”
William Somerset Maugham
“The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.”
Kenneth Deffeyes
“No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.”
William S. Burroughs