A Few Bad Apples Quotes

#1. There's just no accounting for evil and meanness, and we can't judge a species by a few bad apples.

Alyssa Day

#2. Truthfully, I don't think murder is necessarily as bad as people make it out to be. Everyone dies. What difference does it make if a few bad apples get pushed along a little sooner than God intended? And your wife, for example, seems like the kind worth killing.

Peter Swanson

#3. From activism to socialising to starting new bands, 99% of everything that happens on MySpace is fun and positive. But with that many people, there's going to be a few bad apples, which presents challenges.

Chris DeWolfe

#4. A few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.

Lauren Weisberger

#5. The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few 'bad apples' in their midst.

Nick Turse

#6. Be kind to people who are different from you.

Albert Einstein

#7. A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

Helen Rowland

#8. A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.

Sam Snead

#9. The tree is rotten, all it needs is a good shake and the bad apples will fall. Communism is evil. It prevents people from being free.

Steve Berry

#10. There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Charles De Lint

#11. Every action has a consequence - some you can't take back.

Owen Baillie

#12. Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#13. A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.

Barack Obama

#14. I want them to hear your story. And know that there is a special strength..." As I spoke I realized I needed to hear it, know it, too. "A special strength in enduring such dark trials and hardships... And still remaining warm, and kind. Still willing to trust - and reach out.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. Just because there is one bad apple in the barrow, does not mean all the apples are bad. If you dig into the barrow, it is guaranteed to have a few apples that are not spoiled.

Angela Brown

#16. If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

Kim Campbell

#17. If you put good apples into a bad situation, you'll get bad apples.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#18. ......like it or not, there'll be some bad apples out there, and sometimes you might find yourself mixed up with one of them. That's not your fault.

Nico Jaye

#19. The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.

Oren Moverman

#20. Good character isn't produced overnight; it's grown over many seasons. In the same way you sort the good apples from the bad, the marks of poor characters are just as easy to detect.

Nicole Deese

#21. Relationships are like apples: they can be sweet and satisfying. But once you bite into a bad one, it's hard to go back to the barrel again.

John Avery

#22. Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul.

Vivek Wadhwa

#23. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Arthur Koestler

#24. [A]s for my prediction that [the iPhone] would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.

John C. Dvorak

#25. A bruised apple is not all bad. It still has tremendous potential.

Seth Adam Smith

#26. I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

Ben Stein

#27. Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

Terry Pratchett

#28. All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

Fulton J. Sheen

#29. So what's with the crown?" Daphne asked.
Puck's eyes grew wide. "I'm the Prince of Fairies. Emperor of Pixies, Brownies, Hobgoblins, Elves and Gnomes. King of Tricksters and Prank-Players, spiritual leader to juvenile delinquents, layabouts and bad apples.

Michael Buckley

#30. I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on it that I would just forward for every new internship. I didn't get school credit, but I got away with giving free labor to everyone.

Grace Helbig