Badly Quotes

#1. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care. Worry when you do something badly and nobody bothers to tell you.

Randy Pausch

#2. At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly. Then when I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it.

Ben Schwartz

#3. Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.

Patrick Leahy

#4. She had only a candle's light to see by, but candlelight never did badly by any woman.

John Fowles

#5. Most humans she knew were badly damaged individuals.

Tim Lebbon

#6. Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up destroying it.

Andrew Smith

#7. Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Louis Sullivan

#8. When the system you want to be a part of so badly turns you into someone you're unhappy with and you lose sight of yourself, is it worth it? Er ... probably not.

Felicia Day

#9. I wanted to be a rebel so badly.

Shamir

#10. A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.

Jeff VanderMeer

#11. I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Margaret Haddix

#12. There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

Charlie Sheen

#13. My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

Elise Broach

#14. President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

Timothy Noah

#15. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Elizabeth Bishop

#16. Nothing in my life is going right, right now and there's got to be a reason for that. I think that God is trying to get my attention to tell me that this is going to end very, very badly if I don't walk away from it.

Mindy McCready

#17. Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of what problem these theories attempt to solve. They learn but little of the evolution of evolutionary theory.

Gregory Bateson

#18. Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

Kathryn Schulz

#19. Why?" Owen whispered. "Because it might be true? I'm tired of pretending like my heart isn't bleeding inside my chest because I want to be with you so badly. I don't want to fight it anymore. I want to be happy.

Megan Duke

#20. An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.

Poemen

#21. Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by the freshness and vitality of these films.

Kevin Brownlow

#22. September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That's how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you're tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.

Catherynne M Valente

#23. They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.

John Le Carre

#24. The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.

Karl Marx

#25. It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

Jean Paul Gaultier

#26. Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

Moliere

#27. He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn't work anymore. In fact, they'd never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world's more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

Ann Brashares

#28. I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

Malcolm Gladwell

#29. I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

P. J. O'Rourke

#30. It will all end very badly, Gus

John Kennedy Toole

#31. I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

Mel Gibson

#32. The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

Ricky Jay

#33. If you love me, love me now. dont hold yourself so badly until tears starts to mean nothing

Kiera Cass

#34. A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

Johnny Rich

#35. Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.

Bryan Hayes

#36. The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

D.H. Lawrence

#37. The goal is a society in which the basic social unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door is hungry, it's not your problem. If the retired couple next door invested their assets badly and are now starving, that's not your problem either.

Noam Chomsky

#38. I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.

William P. Leahy

#39. Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose.

Keith Carter

#40. Not in a dog's age. Not since that Dorothy. And you and the others. Did Dorothy ever stop whimpering so? She'll grow up to require the convent, mark my words. Or a husband with a good strong backhand. Her fanny wants spanking badly.

Gregory Maguire

#41. There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success;

Norman Vincent Peale

#42. Crawford, ever wary of desire, knew how badly he wanted to be wise. He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can be to a youngster who believes him.

Thomas Harris

#43. Blade," she murmured with a sweet, ingenuous gaze, sliding her arms around his neck in sensual welcome, "do you promise not to think too badly of me even if I like it?"
A smile curved his lips. "My lady," he replied huskily, "I have every intention of making sure you like it
exceedingly.

Gaelen Foley

#44. Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.

Steven D. Levitt

#45. There are many movies that have done it very badly. The studios have gone for quick profits and audiences are feeling angry. People aren't taking the time and spending the money to do it right. I am.

Michael Bay

#46. God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.

Smith Wigglesworth

#47. If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.

Rob Lowe

#48. If you want something badly enough, do not give up!

Randy Pausch

#49. Our successes and failures in life can be traced to how well or how badly we deal with the inevitable conflicts that confront us in society.

Robert Greene

#50. When someone is wearing a dress that makes her look fat, don't say 'That's a great dress.' It always comes off badly.

Letitia Baldrige

#51. I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

Peter Hollingworth

#52. I wasn't a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly.

Sibel Kekilli

#53. Loving someone can suck badly. They can make bad choices that fuck you up badly inside.

Renae Kaye

#54. To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.

George Washington

#55. When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly; it's just the beginning.

John Le Carre

#56. No matter how badly you push it away and ignore it, the pain of loss never really goes away.

Karina Halle

#57. There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

Thomas Huxley

#58. He was shaking so badly, we could have used him to make martinis for James Bond.

Elizabeth George

#59. She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.

David Nicholls

#60. It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way-as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it.

Laura Dave

#61. I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

Jennifer Egan

#62. When a goal is badly stated or it does not exist at all, our sub- conscious will automatically conceive it as unreachable, as impossible as to find a solution for something that does not exist

Sunday Adelaja

#63. Guys do ridiculous things for love." Adrian reached into his pocket and held up a pack of cigarettes. "Do you know how badly I want one of these right now? Yet I suffer, Rose. All for you.

Richelle Mead

#64. After a bad day there's always hope in remembering that the day cannot possibly repeat itself, therefore all who still treat you badly because of it are thinking in the past. Tell them that, it will make you feel better.

Unknown Author 649

#65. One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself, 'It's time to stop. I can't do it anymore. It's not good. It hurts too much.'

Jordan Knight

#66. Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital
In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning.
Selfishness is like listening to good jazz
With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

Philip Larkin

#67. There is a big deposit of sympathy in the bank of love, but don't draw out little sums every hour or so - so that by and by, when perhaps you need it badly, it is all drawn out and you yourself don't know how or on what it was spent.

Emily Post

#68. Only one statement about life is universally true: It's going to end badly.

Evans Light

#69. We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams. - Bob Proctor

Bob Proctor

#70. I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

Lauren Bacall

#71. It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

Wilhelm Keitel

#72. China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

Bill Gates

#73. I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.

Chuck Close

#74. Obama's plan for "change": Let's do everything Bush did, only with more suck! Because it just didn't suck badly enough the first time!

Michel Templet

#75. When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.

Jim Woodring

#76. Have you ever read Hans Christian Andersen's story of The Little Mermaid, Miranda? Have you ever wanted
something so badly that you were willing to suffer the sensation of a thousand blades cutting into your feet?

Vanessa Garden

#77. The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

Albert Camus

#78. I knew that she was right, obviously. But part of me didn't want to. I wanted to have someone to call my own so badly that I just couldn't let it go.

Bill Konigsberg

#79. I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

Freeman Dyson

#80. Designs that anticipate specific future requirements almost always end badly.

Sandi Metz

#81. I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.'

Jerry Lewis

#82. No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

Orrin Hatch

#83. Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.

David Nicholls

#84. I'm not your boyfriend, Isabelle," he called out.
She went white, Simon was horrified by how badly his words had come out.
"I mean, I can't be your boyfriend, Isabelle," he said. "I'm not him
that guy who was your boyfriend. That guy you want.

Cassandra Clare

#85. Sometimes we want something to be true so badly that we convince ourselves that it is true.

Wally Lamb

#86. The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.

Theodore Roosevelt

#87. It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.

D.E. Stevenson

#88. If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world.

Miroslav Tichy

#89. G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all.

Ralph Fletcher

#90. It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.

John Stewart Bell

#91. A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

Anton Chekhov

#92. I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

Leo Tolstoy

#93. There are things done so badly that one is tempted to think that there is an intention behind.

Luigina Sgarro

#94. 5 steps to happiness: Don't speak badly about yourself. Trust your instincts. Let go of what you can't control. Don't be afraid to say no. Don't be afraid to say yes.

Karen Salmansohn

#95. This particularly tends to happen with depression and anxiety. With anxiety you tend to get hooked by stories about the future, about things that might go wrong and how badly you're sure to handle them.

Russ Harris

#96. The world's fat is badly divided.

Martha Gellhorn

#97. If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back
to you, then its yours forever. If it doesnt, then it was never
yours to begin with.

Jack Engelhard

#98. One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say

Voltaire

#99. You don't have to treat people badly to be on top.

Amy Poehler

#100. It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.

Stephen Mitchell