Top 100 As Bad As Quotes
#1. I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really explain how bad it was.
Reginald Arvizu
#2. I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true - nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
Amy Hempel
#3. My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
Sofia Coppola
#4. Judging yourself is just as bad as judging someone else. Our thoughts are a powerful force, and what you pay attention to you empower. Judging yourself only serves to strengthen your shortcomings.
Jon Gabriel
#5. Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.
Fredric Jameson
#6. One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street ... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.
Jeff Cooper
#7. Everything could always be worse,' she would say, 'and so be grateful that things are only as bad as they are.' She
Alexander McCall Smith
#8. We're all as bad as each other. All hungry little cannibals at our own cannibal party. So fuck the milk of human kindness and welcome to the abattoir!
Philip Ridley
#9. Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
Ian Hacking
#10. For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more
remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#11. Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#12. You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.
Terry Pratchett
#13. Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
Aristotle.
#14. If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period."
"Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.
Tamora Pierce
#15. I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing about be as bad as being stuck here.Nothing.
P.C. Cast
#16. What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself. You're crazy. You're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden.
Clint Eastwood
#17. In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.
Edgar Mitchell
#18. It was a newsflash to me that dating as a pre-thirty divorcette was as bad as having herpes.
Stephanie Klein
#19. Volyova did not like planets at the best of times, and gas giants struck her as an unreasonable affront to human scale and frailty. In that respect, they were almost as bad as stars.
Alastair Reynolds
#20. Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.
Steve McConnell
#21. Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.
Grete Waitz
#22. If one wishes for revenge, before you know it, a hurt as bad as the one wished for will come upon the wisher.
CLAMP
#23. If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church
Bertrand Russell
#24. All the same, Thomas now had a plan. As bad as it was, he had a plan.
They needed more clues about the code. They needed MEMORIES.
So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.
James Dashner
#25. To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
Plutarch
#26. Chase smiled. "Don't get scared off. I promise it's not as bad as it sounds. It's not like we'll be shifted when we pleasure you.
Madison Johns
#27. If, instead of saying that thieves will go to prison or liars will go to hell, we could make people think that stealing is as bad as going to a funeral in a coloured tie, or lying as bad as frying a sausage on the parlour fire, we should achieve a colossal reformation.
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset
#28. We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as certainly [Louis] Brandeis was, or many Democrats were on the question of segregation.
Jeffrey Rosen
#30. My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.
Mary Doria Russell
#31. 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
#32. Being single is not as bad as everyone likes to make it seem!
Shay Mitchell
#33. Or, Most of the time when you open your mouth, make known the gospel. But if you're feeling really, really hurt, rally other people around your cause and make this other person look as bad as you can.
Lysa TerKeurst
#34. I when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you will be successful
Eric Thomas
#35. Long story short, ghosts just coming out of the closet sucked at communication. Probably as bad as a beginner ghost whisperer sucked at getting them to communicate.
C.C. Hunter
#37. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
Jeffrey Fry
#38. Soviet imperialism's as bad as American capitalism.
David Mitchell
#39. There are no memories which I wanted to blot out of my mind. Always, I have been rather objective in my point of view, able to stand off and observe myself and my surroundings in a rather impersonal fashion. The actual sight of my first casualty was not nearly as bad as I had imagined.
James Carl Nelson
#40. Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.
Bill Press
#42. I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
Robert Smith
#46. Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.
Shaggy
#47. There is a good chance that whatever it is you have to accomplish isn't as bad as you think it's going to be, and if you'd just do it, you could see that not only the task wasn't as daunting as you anticipated it would be, but you could get it done in less time than you thought it would take you.
Graham Elliot
#48. Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better.
R.J. Palacio
#49. It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.
CC Sabathia
#50. Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: 'Mmm, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.'
Catherine Tate
#51. You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!
Eric Thomas
#52. An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.
Herman Melville
#53. Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.
Jim Butcher
#54. Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
Al Yankovic
#55. Fucking zombies. They're almost as bad as tarantulas.
Marcus Lambert
#56. When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe! That's when you find a way!
Eric Thomas
#57. The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'
Tom Hanks
#58. Santi and Wolfe exchanged a look. Wolfe inclined his head a little to the side, with a strange, crooked smile. "You see? They're as bad as we are."
"Worse," Santi sighed.
Rachel Caine
#59. Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.
Hector Hugh Munro
#60. "Then what do you see?" asked Irene, who perceived at once that for her not to believe him was at least as bad as for him not to believe her.
George MacDonald
#61. You're as bad as your master," he muttered, scarce audible amid the sea-sounds. "Worse. At least he didn't ply his words from a courtesan's lips.
Jacqueline Carey
#63. Dark books say to us, "This isn't about you. You are in fact alive and safe." Yes, there's an implicit and unavoidable warning, an edge of danger; these things happen, the books say. And yet, as bad as it gets inside this book, you, the reader, are securely outside. If
Pamela Paul
#64. Open your heart and feel humanity. It's really not as bad as it seems.
Timothy Pina
#65. If this Roman dude's as bad as you say, then why are you lurking outside his store looking all charged and heated like a dog waiting for its owner?
Alyson Noel
#66. False modesty is as bad as false pride. Know exactly what you are capable of at any moment, and act accordingly. Any other path is folly - and could be deadly in battle.
Christie Golden
#67. An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.
Edward St. Aubyn
#68. I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.
Kelly Olynyk
#69. Nothing that I can encounter today can be as bad as what is behind me. There are small things that used to upset me, but now I just think: Who cares?
Ingrid Betancourt
#70. My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!
Sean Connery
#71. Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.
Bruce Hutchison
#72. As bad as I disagreed on stuff, I wanted to get a technical foul, but I didn't. When guys on the team see me get technical fouls, it tends to trickle down to the team. I just took it and dealt with it.
Stephen Jackson
#73. A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Samuel Butler
#74. A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'
Penn Jillette
#76. An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw
#77. Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing.
Annie Dillard
#78. Bill and Ed did not look as bad as the other two, but they both had six or seven large gold rings in each ear, and this made them rattle when they walked.
Alexander McCall Smith
#79. I don't think I'm as bad as I'm made out to be. I did things in Philadelphia, but I don't have any intention of doing those things in St. Louis.
Richie Allen
#80. Conversation between Jem and Ethan on Sean:
'" ... Has it never occurred to you that maybe your brother brings out the worst in people?"
"Or the best," he said, "depending on which way you look at it."
"You're as bad as he is."
"Actually, I'm much worse.
J.A. Belfield
#81. Health and programming should go together like a horse and carriage. You can't have one without the other. In our sedentary office work, we often forget that an absence of health is as bad as a lack of programming skills.
Staffan Noteberg
#82. I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
Vera Farmiga
#83. Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism.
Jomo Kenyatta
#84. Also, I think I'd like to see more out-of-state shows, man. As bad as I hate to say this, I'm looking forward to playing for nobody. That's what happens when you're a guy like me and you travel out to Sacramento, California.
Cody Johnson
#85. The things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.
Patricia Wentworth
#86. I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
Richard Armour
#87. You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.
D.E.M. Emrys
#88. Politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
Louisa May Alcott
#89. Fear is not only a leaden foe, but a liar as well. It was not as bad as I thought it would be, sitting there in a London department store on an ordinary Saturday.
Susan Meissner
#90. If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.
Will Rogers
#91. Things are as bad as you fear they are. People are as bad as you think they are. The Universe does not care.
Charlie Huston
#92. Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.
Muhammad Yunus
#93. Life's only as bad as you make it out to be. It's go nothing to do with the way it is.
Nami Mun
#94. Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
Jenny Downham
#95. Now I really feel sorry for her. Your hand is as bad as Rob's paddle," Cassie shuddered.
"Thank you."
"I didn't mean it as a compliment!
Breanna Hayse
#96. The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him.
Garry Kasparov
#97. The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures themselves against. If we lose the BBC, it won't be quite as bad as losing the royal family, but an integral part of this country will have gone. But then, I'm an old guy.
Terry Wogan
#98. I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.
Robbie Williams
#99. Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.
Jamie Zawinski
#100. What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.
Spencer Johnson
