Bad World Quotes

#1. The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

Dennis Prager

#2. In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.

Frank Miller

#3. Sometimes all we need is a hug that will make us feel home. The heartbeats that sound like a lullaby and the eyes which assure us that the world is not such a bad a place yet every time we stare into them.

Akshay Vasu

#4. I have never admired a woman for being good and I have never admired a woman for being bad. I have, however, admired other women, for believing in themselves.

C. JoyBell C.

#5. A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly. Of course you reply, "I do it to save time". A very good object, no doubt: but what right have you to do it at your friend's expense? Isn't his time as valuable as yours?

Lewis Carroll

#6. I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.

Joni Mitchell

#7. If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

Steffi Graf

#8. America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

Paul Mooney

#9. Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back.

Mark Zandi

#10. Well, in my world, our world, there are too many guns and too many bad things happen because of them." Pippin,

John Grisham

#11. I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.

Kanye West

#12. We're all monsters ... Being a monster is not the same as being a bad person. It just means you're willing to eat the world if that's what you have to do to keep yourself alive.

Mira Grant

#13. All the embarrassment in the world won't make a mistake go away. And although feeling bad is normal, letting shame own you is not.

Joyce A. Scott

#14. If love was only for the perfect, what a sad and lonely world it would it be. We are the culmination of every good and bad choice we've ever made. Your mistakes have made you into an incredibly fierce and loving woman; one I am

Ruth Cardello

#15. It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.

Steven Soderbergh

#16. My only desire in the world is to have my revenge against everyone who hurt me, disbelieved me, and made me into the bad guy. After that, I don't know... But, right now, nothing in the world matters but my payback. And I'm going to love every sick, twisted minute of it.

Jaimie Roberts

#17. Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.

Julia Hill

#18. Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil.

Tarryn Fisher

#19. Water is very bad for one's health. People in third world countries seem to drink nothing but water, and they are always dying.

Bauvard

#20. Austin was engrossed in some mobile gaming device. "No, no, bad portal," he scolded, totally oblivious to the world. "Stop - evil - eurgh! Suck my flagellated balls, douchenozzle!

Robyn Schneider

#21. No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

Zeno Of Citium

#22. Sometimes I feel like all the crap in the world is building up inside me, like all the bad is just filling me like a balloon. I push it all back, live my happy life.
But sometimes that balloon exposed and all the crap lands on everything around me.

Keary Taylor

#23. I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.

Loren Mazzacane Connors

#24. Every time I start thinking the world is all bad, then I start seeing people out there having a good time on motorcycles. It makes me take another look.

Steve McQueen

#25. When we believe in the world outside of ourselves, gain is often perceived as good and loss as bad. When we stop believing in a world external to self. that reverses: gain becomes bad and loss becomes good. Nothing we can lose was ever ours in the first place. All we can ever lose is illusion.

Jed McKenna

#26. So long, old pal. You're going to a different world now. It's sure to be a better one, since no other world could be as bad as this one is.

Kurt Vonnegut

#27. And then you discover what you should have known all along: that it takes only one bad day to turn your life upside down. That there's nothing you can have, nothing you've earned, nothing you've paid for with blood and loss and suffering ... that the world can't take away from you.

Simon R. Green

#28. I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now.

Chris Matthews

#29. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.

John Steinbeck

#30. Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It's a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either love or hate them, but that's not how people are.

Trevor Noah

#31. My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.

Hugh Howey

#32. Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power.

Stuart Wilde

#33. The world is a dangerous place ( ... ) There will always be blurred boundaries. There are plenty of good bad guys and bad good guys. Life's not clear and it's seldom fair ( ... ) I don't want our child growing up under the illusion that it is. Shit happens.

Peter James

#34. What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living ... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

Barry Eisler

#35. Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love yourself and your body and the world. And make you know that you are in a game that has to have a happy ending.

George Sheehan

#36. My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some good, some bad, and they will be his legacy to the world of acting.

Charlton Heston

#37. I now watch porn, but I don't have the feeling to go to the bath and start to jerk off. It's the world bad idea ever came. I have quite jerk off and I will quit it's not the way I should live, the same is for you!

Deyth Banger

#38. Fear isn't a bad travel companion. Sometimes, it saves your life.

Susana Fortes

#39. Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

Henry Morgenthau Jr.

#40. Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

#41. The sports are also hard on my body, and I do have a longstanding bad back due to an injury some years ago. I don't regret any part of it though. I love what I do and my sporting career has taken me to some wonderful places and seeing the world.

Liz Halliday

#42. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. But that's not how people are.

Trevor Noah

#43. Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

Klaus Schulze

#44. Don't spoil him. Don't try to influence him. Your influence would be bad. The world is wide and has many marvellous people in it. Don't take away from me the one person who gives to my art whatever charm that possesses: my life as an artist depends on him.

Oscar Wilde

#45. A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Gregory David Roberts

#46. The evil that is in this world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that however isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue;

Albert Camus

#47. There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

Douglas Coupland

#48. We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack of elegant explanations supporting good policies, but one that suffers bad policies due to system and meta-system level incentives.

Patri Friedman

#49. If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.

Lapo Elkann

#50. He [David Foster Wallace] compares raising children to raising books, you should take pride in the work you do inside a family and not from how they make out in the world. "It's good to want a child to do well, but it's bad to want that glory to reflect back on you," is what he says.

David Lipsky

#51. These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#52. I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.

Gillian Flynn

#53. The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

Tim Ferriss

#54. Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world - you don't need to be your own worst enemy.

Lucy Hale

#55. When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you ... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness are threats to the status quo. It is an artist's job to be an 'outlaw.

Laurence Gartel

#56. What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.

Christopher Shays

#57. Jesus Christ did not come into this world to make bad people good but to make spiritually dead people alive. Apostolics

D.G. Hanscomb

#58. If there's anything worse in this world than a bad batch of babi guling, it's hindsight.

S.A. Tawks

#59. Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

Jim Butcher

#60. Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

Harriet Martineau

#61. I've always lived out of a suitcase. I was in a new city every three months. When I was a model, I traveled the world, and as an actor you're traveling from movie set to movie set. So I've never been in one place long enough for anything super-bad to happen.

Krysten Ritter

#62. I wouldn't trade anything no matter how good or bad or difficult. I'm the luckiest girl in the world as far as I'm concerned.

Kim Basinger

#63. Yes, bad things happen in this evil world, but God always does something redeemable through them. Sometimes we see it, sometimes we don't.

Tammy L. Gray

#64. It took a lot to have hope in this world where so little evidence of it existed. Maybe if nothing bad had ever happened, you didn't even consider those clouds and storms ahead. But for the rest of us, even the brightest sunshine carried a chance of rain.

Sarah Dessen

#65. There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

Courtney Barnett

#66. As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

Sharon Salzberg

#67. This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.

Shams Tabrizi

#68. I flick my turn signal on out of dumb habit, and because the end of the world's no excuse for bad driving manners.

Alexandra Bracken

#69. Love is a funny thing. It can make you the happiest person in the world when it's good, but when it goes bad, it can crush you beyond recognition.

Courtney Giardina

#70. Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu. In the developing world, the data is much sketchier, but the death toll is almost certainly higher.

Seth Berkley

#71. You realize that by doing this, all you're accomplishing is reinforcing in America-throughout the world- that the word different means bad, ugly, dangerous.

Alexandra Bracken

#72. I very much enjoyed Leo Tolstoy's What is Art? I can't quote it, it's been a while, but at the end of the day, the idea is that "art that does good in the world is art, and what doesn't is not. It's propaganda or something else. It's bad."

Scott Avett

#73. Whenever people talk about dyslexia, it's important to know that some of the smartest people in the world, major owners of companies, are dyslexic. We just see things differently, so that's an advantage. I just learn a different way; there's nothing bad about it.

Charlotte McKinney

#74. Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.

Stephenie Meyer

#75. Everyone asks how I felt before the perfect game. You never feel bad when you're in the World Series. You've got all winter to rest.

Don Larsen

#76. I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

Hamilton Jordan

#77. There are always going to be jerks in the world, Auggie," she said, looking at me. "But I really believe, and Daddy really believes, that there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other. Just

R.J. Palacio

#78. But if the world measures a refugee according to the worst story, we will always excuse human suffering, saying it is not yet as bad as someone else's.

Victoria Armour-Hileman

#79. And though Remi was having worklife problems and bad lovelife with a sharp-tongued woman, he at least had learned to laugh almost better than anyone in the world, and I saw all the fun we were going to have in Frisco.

Jack Kerouac

#80. The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

Kenneth Grahame

#81. To actively improve the world
and change your life as well,
speak all the good you know,
and all the bad refuse to tell.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#82. The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?

Denis Johnston

#83. In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

#84. Happiness and suffering, however extreme, are mental events. The mind depends upon the body, and the body upon the world, but everything good or bad that happens in your life must appear in consciousness to matter.

Sam Harris

#85. Baby, I was in a war. Of course I get it. That's where all the bad in the world comes from. Guys who like being mean. I was that guy once. We were all that guy, for at least a minute. We had to be.

Judy Blundell

#86. The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

Fiona Apple

#87. When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a thirty-five pound bag of rocks and the lost world it represents, is not such a bad thing to die for.

Anne Fadiman

#88. The world is a bad place only then when you are not good.

S.M.

#89. I had seen the world as either white or black.
It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey.

Sanhita Baruah

#90. And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.

Joyce Carol Oates

#91. To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck.

Susan Sontag

#92. The important thing is that, whatever rubbish the world throws at you, you don't lose heart, and you make sure you always find a way to rid yourself of the bad stuff.

Corina Bomann

#93. With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#94. I felt something and vowed that if I ever got a girl I would treat her right and never be bad or dirty to her or hurt her, ever. I vowed it and had all the confidence in the world that I would keep the vow.

Markus Zusak

#95. The world is grown so bad that wrens make pray where eagles dare not perch

William Shakespeare

#96. The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops, and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.

Steven Pressfield

#97. I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.

Mark Fuhrman

#98. My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

Alexander McCall Smith

#99. Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

Jane Asher

#100. The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

John Clare