“Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.”

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American author and poet 1928–2014

Charles Sheffield book Transcendence

Source: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 11 (p. 126)

“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”

Mary Renault book The Charioteer

Source: The Charioteer

“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.”

William Blum book Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

“No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: Pink Smog

“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.”
Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere”

Dashiell Hammett book The Maltese Falcon

Source: The Maltese Falcon

“Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”

Candace Bushnell Lipstick Jungle

Source: Lipstick Jungle

“It is bad if you praise, and worse if you reprove a thing, I mean, if you do not understand the matter well.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.”

Hank Green (1980) American vlogger

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“No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. ”

Kirk Douglas (1916–2020) American stage and film actor

“Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.”

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