Top 100 Bad One Quotes
#1. I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions.
Roxane Gay
#2. If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#3. If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.
Abdu'l- Baha
#4. The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
Socrates
#5. I was starting to think of her as the "Goth Van Gogh" on a good day or "Vampira" on a bad one. She took a little getting used to.
Judith Fertig
#6. There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
Patrick Ness
#8. Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.
William Blake
#10. A good man has as much chance of dying as a bad one. Maybe more so.
Paullina Simons
#11. There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.
William Sloane Coffin
#13. The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.
Sir Fulke Greville
#14. when it comes to the novel you have to work long and hard even to produce a bad one.
Anonymous
#15. The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one.
Simonides Of Ceos
#17. It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.
Chanakya
#18. It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.
Nic Pizzolatto
#19. A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
Simonides Of Ceos
#20. The tortures occur, if they are unnecessary, then there is no God, or a bad one. If there is a good God, then these tortures are necessary for no even moderately good Being could possibly inflict or permit them if they weren't.
C.S. Lewis
#21. He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.
James Hogg
#22. For a man can win nothing better than a good wife, and nothing more painful than a bad one.
Hesiod
#23. One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.
Denis Diderot
#24. I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Victor Hugo
#25. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#26. The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman
a matter of millimetres.
Ian Fleming
#27. It is better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.
Herman Melville
#28. I don't pay attention. I don't read stuff or message boards because you definitely get affected. You can read a hundred great comments, amazing comments, and have one bad one and that is all you can focus on and it wrecks your day. It says something about negativity and how it draws us somehow.
Joan Jett
#29. I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something. I believe in cleansing the soul through fun and games. I also believe in love. And I have several good friends, and just one bad one.
Erlend Loe
#30. Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
Walter Bagehot
#31. Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
Mike Tyson
#32. I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is the quality of the split-second decisions you made.
George Saunders
#33. I think of life as a book of stories. You move through the stories and the characters change. But once you have a name on your skin you are stuck with one story, even if it's a bad one.
Alice Hoffman
#34. All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.
Charles A. Dana
#35. I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
Rabih Alameddine
#36. For Baby, the marriage was a bad one, but it never entered her head that she might complain or refuse to marry Ram. . . . Fortunately, in her eyes what others might have considered an injustice, she considered a law of life.
Shiva Naipaul
#37. In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.
Randall Jarrell
#38. Yesterday is gone and nothing but a memory. Maybe a bad one, but there's no way to call it back or change it. Tomorrow is just the whisper of a hope. Today is all you got.
Carolyn Brown
#39. Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#40. See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
John Webster
#41. We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time.
C.S. Lewis
#42. Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.
Christian Louboutin
#43. Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.
Raheel Farooq
#44. Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.
Anton Chekhov
#45. A good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.
Rebecca West
#46. I'd often thought being a Christian meant by definition being a bad one, since nothing is more difficult than Christianity, so I was more or less used to that feeling.
Charlaine Harris
#47. I think Amy Winehouse's decision not to go to rehab was a bad one. In fact, I think it was the worst idea since Dodi Al Fayed said to Princess Diana, Ooh, look! A tunnel! Whack that seat belt off and let's have a fuck.
Robert Clark
#48. The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Herodotus
#50. I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.
Mike Lowell
#51. The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.
Jimi Hendrix
#52. The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.
Charles Duhigg
#53. Willpower and dedication are good words' Roland remarked 'There's a bad one, though, that means the same thing. That one is obsession
Stephen King
#54. The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Henry Ward Beecher
#55. In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.
Lou Gehrig
#56. When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#57. I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? It wasn't a good feeling, but not a bad one either. I felt caged and free at the same time, like it was only myself that wouldn't allow me to feel either great or miserable.
Markus Zusak
#58. Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one
! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.
Stephen Sondheim
#59. it's usually a bad one, a negative thought, but we have
Mark Johnson
#60. I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?
Arsene Wenger
#62. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
#63. Chess is a great game. No matter how good one is, there is always somebody better. No matter how bad one is, there is always somebody worse.
Israel Albert Horowitz
#64. I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.
Lindsey Vonn
#65. I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel's remedy.
Tom Petty
#66. Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one.
Eleanor Catton
#67. A small company is more welcome to me than a bad one: but they must come and go at the right time. So does it accord with good sleep.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#68. In life, you would regret definitely, either you become good person or the bad one, but being good is better to regret for
-Samar Sudha
Samar Sudha
#69. A good teacher offers practice , a bad one offers theories .
Anthony De Mello
#70. And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.
Will Rogers
#71. And if you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. You couldn't say "we're the good guys" and do bad-guy things.
Terry Pratchett
#72. As I looked around the room at all these people-my family-excitement thrummed through me. Yes, this might go down in history as the stupidest thing I'd ever done, but it felt so good to have a plan that I didn't care if it was a bad one.
Rachel Hawkins
#73. What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attaches to readiness to believe; that the doubting disposition is a bad one, and skepticism is a sin.
Thomas Huxley
#74. When I don't know what to do about something," she tells me, "I just leave the idea alone for a while. A good idea will feed itself and grow. A bad one will disappear - as it should.
Sasha Martin
#75. A good life is the result of a thousand small choices and so is a bad one.
Karina Bliss
#76. I'll smith for you," Gendry went to one knee before Lord Beric. "If you'll have me, m'lord, I could be of use. I've made tools and knives and once I made a helmet that wasn't so bad. One of the Mountain's men stole it from me when we was taken."
Arya bit her lip. He means to leave me too.
George R R Martin
#77. I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'
Joseph Heller
#78. I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.
Emmanuelle Beart
#79. When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.
Patrick Wilson
#80. If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.
Umar
#81. We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William James
#82. Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."
Agnes Varda
#84. Had a bad one too, have you?' asked the Prime Minister stiffly, hoping to convey by this that he had quite enough on his plate already without any extra helpings from Fudge. 'Yes, of course,' said Fudge,
J.K. Rowling
#85. The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.
Anton Chekhov
#86. Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on.
David Richo
#87. It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.
John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
#88. If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#90. Persons don't make their own faces, and it's no more my fault if mine is a good one than it is other people's fault if theirs is a bad one.
Charles Dickens
#91. They knew a good building would praise God better than a bad one, even if the bad one were covered all over with official symbols of praise.
Thomas Merton
#92. It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one.
Marcel Proust
#93. Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.
Mary McCarthy
#94. You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future
a good future, a useful future
and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
Isaac Asimov
#95. So Ame stayed home like a good girl, and I snuck out like a bad one. I already longed for a good book and my quilt.
Gwen Hayes
#96. My ideas are like a Hydra. Remove a bad one and two good ones will take its place.
Paul E. Petty
#97. For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.
Aristotle.
#98. I'm probably my own harshest critic. If I get a hundred good reviews and one really bad one, it's that one out of a hundred that I remember. I think we actors are hard on ourselves, and I don't know why that is.
Tim Daly
#99. One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
Henry Miller
#100. It takes ten good decisions to make up for one disastrous one. This is why it is better not to make nine good decisions than to make one bad one - which is what happens most of the time.
Neel Burton
