Top 14 Not So Bad Quotes
#1. I didn't need to transform after all.
My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek.
And maybe that's not so bad after all.
Holly Smale
#2. Sometimes, it's not so bad to listen to some one talk about weapons or horses - or medicine. Honestly, when someone is trying to talk to you about those things, the important thing they're always saying is that they care enough about what you think to try to share themselves with you.
Breeana Puttroff
#3. Greed may not be good, but it's not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can't have.
Hiromu Arakawa
#4. For the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.
Blaise Pascal
#5. I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.
Gene Wilder
#6. You taste so good. I could kiss you forever. (Adron)
You're not so bad yourself in a lethal, I'll-kill-you-if-you-look-at-me-wrong kind of way. (Livia)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#8. You're not me. You can't feel like I feel."
"I can feel."
"No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine."
"It's not fine. It's just not so bad.
John Fowles
#9. As your abilities begin to grow, your angelic side will start to manifest itself in more noticeable ways."
"My angelic side. Great. Like I don't have enough to deal with."
"It's not so bad," Mom says. "You'll learn to control it."
"I'll learn to control my hair?
Cynthia Hand
#10. I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.
Pauline Collins
#12. Good Lord, I'm regretting this now," I muttered. "I have never - ever - smelled BO this bad in my life. And I once had s'mores wit a Sasquatch."
"Hang out with him for awhile," Mort gasped. "Eventually it's not so bad."
"Wow. Really?"
"No. Not really.
Jim Butcher
#13. Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.
Eloisa James
#14. Not so bad this ending because one is getting used to endings: life like Morse, a series of dots and dashes, never forming a paragraph.
Graham Greene
#15. It's not so bad to live out of a suitcase. It's a really beautiful life.
Jane Monheit
#16. But it's not so bad, I can think of worse traits in a flatmate. No, it's not Cathy, it's not even Ashbury that bothers me most about my new situation (I still think of it as new, although it's been two years). It's the loss of control.
Paula Hawkins
#17. If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it's not so bad.
C.S. Lewis
#18. I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos ... I've had nine husbands ... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
Jacki Weaver
#19. The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.
Allen Ginsberg
#20. It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance ...
Lewis Thomas
#21. She doesn't want me to own her. (Dante)
Well, the Simi doesn't understand that. Owning's not so bad. I own akri and he kind of fun. (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#22. Good things could happen to not so bad people.
Mike Gayle
#23. Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.
Annie Elizabeth Delany
#24. I've been arrested three times. I don't like getting arrested, but it's not so bad when it's an organized form of nonviolent disobedience. It's something appealing to a higher law.
Josh Fox
#25. If you ever felt alone, come to my cottage and drink the whole bottle; it is not so bad to be abnormal for a while.
M.F. Moonzajer
#26. To be able to fly ? To be smoke , or a wolf ;to know the night , and live in it forever ? That's not so bad . You call us monsters . But when you dream it's of flying , and changing , and living without death .
Clive Barker
#27. Speak up for me, sir, for I'm not so bad. I was led on by the treachery of others.
Anthony Burgess
#28. People see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.
Charles Bukowski
#29. It's not so bad, my darling. Being dead. It's like being alive, only colder.
Catherynne M Valente
#30. My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.
Audrey Hepburn
#31. I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.
Steve Buscemi
#32. Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
Orison Swett Marden
#33. Your death, strange human. I mean, your injury. No murder, just a little maiming. So I can leave. Maiming's not so bad.
Eliza Crewe
#34. Admit it, Ella. It's not so bad being a carnivore."
I reached for a chunk of bread and dabbed it in soft yellow butter. "I'm not a carnivore, I'm an opportunistic omnivore.
Lisa Kleypas
#35. Komatsu's view is that there are always two sides to everything," Tengo said. "A good side and a not-so-bad side.
Haruki Murakami
#36. I've found, as a general rule of life, that the things you think are going to be the scaliest nearly always turn out not so bad after all.
P.G. Wodehouse
#37. Australia's not so bad with me, really, people are pretty cool with me at home, but in England it feels a little bit scary.
Guy Pearce
#38. When boys get mad its not so bad
When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start!
P.C. Cast
#39. When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'
Maya Angelou
#40. Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.
John Terry
#41. Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#42. I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.
A.M. Homes
#44. If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
Jack Kevorkian
#45. Everything is not as good as in El-Dorado; but everything is not so bad.
Voltaire
#46. She grinned at her husband. He was wearing a blue towelling bathrobe that was too small for him, and it showed his long, muscular legs. 'You're not so bad yourself,' she said, and she picked up the phone. It was her mother. 'Happy Christmas,' she said.
Ken Follett
#47. If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.
Roger Ebert
#48. Lesson two,' Caballo called. 'Think Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast. You start with easy, because if that's all you get's that's not so bad. Then work on light. Make it effortless, like you don't give a shit how high the hill is or how far you've got to go.
Christopher McDougall
#49. If I can meet you someday,
If you are waiting for me,
Then my long, long journey was not so bad after all.
Yuri Kimura
#50. God is good, but the devil is not so bad to those he likes,
Amanda Hocking
#51. It was Yuki. What was I up to? My response: Chewing on a stalk of celery and having a beer. Hers: Yuck. Mine: It's not so bad. She wasn't old enough to know things could be a lot worse.
Haruki Murakami
#52. I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.
Isaac Marion
#53. Settling for not-so-bad sounds okay. But, you know, it's hard when you tried so much to make life really good.
Abigail Tarttelin
#54. So you see, Hell's not so bad if you get to keep an angel with you.
Stephenie Meyer
#55. Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood
#56. Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
Irving Stone
#57. Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
Rita Mae Brown
#58. Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked.
Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.
Joe Hill
#59. [On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.
Caryl Rivers
#60. It may upset my secret sisters that I say this, but between you and me, if you're so fortunate as to have captured the perfect male, peeling off that chain-mail bikini and becoming a part-time Amazon is not so bad after all.
-Author's Note, Anne Fortier
Anne Fortier
#61. You're not so bad. You'll get there. You should have seen Alec do flips at first. I think he kicked himself in the head once.
Cassandra Clare
#62. I don't deserve this. I have forgiven myself. What I did to you was not so bad. It happens.
Salvador Plascencia
#63. He grinned. "I think Rae just adopted you."
"I'm not sure that's a good thing."
"It's not so bad. It's like living with your own personal Rottweiler.
Samantha Young
#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. Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love
that's not so bad either.
Mae West
#66. Yes. We will live the rest of our lives in hell. It's not so bad: as long as you're prepared for it, you can live anywhere.
Mizuki Nomura
#67. I actually wanted to drive a stake through your heart when you first came here, all silent and moody. But you're not so bad, after all.
Christina Channelle
#68. There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
Ken Kesey
#69. It's not so bad to find yourself free of the effort to overcome your life. It's not so bad.
Karen Maezen Miller
#70. Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
Walker Percy
#71. My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?
Henny Youngman
#72. Men try to cheat themselves into the belief that sin is not quite so sinful as God says it is, and that they are not so bad as they really are.
J.C. Ryle
#73. CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'
Conan O'Brien
#74. Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of tea. Church was not so bad when the minister remembered you were only human.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#75. For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think while others ... well, often fall apart. Not so bad, not so bad at all. Being queer and self-sufficient is the best present at this season.
Will Self
#76. It's just not worth it to be so stressed and angry about everything. Life's generally not so bad- most people just choose to see the negative.
Kelly Oram
#77. Ranta: Let's just pray that she actually is a tsundere... Though, if she were a tsundere, obviously, the one she'd go dere for is me, you know? That's kind of... not so bad, I guess?
Moguzo: O-Obviously, she wouldn't go dere for Ranta, I think...
Ranta: Oh, shut up, Moguzo!
Ao Jyumonji
#78. I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.
Carolyn See
#79. If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.
Jayne Anne Phillips
#80. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
Abhishek Vicky
#81. You're not so bad, Princess. I mean, for a stuck up bitch.
Sabrina Paige
#82. Oh, talking is not so bad as that," said the Jester. "True, most people say only silly things when they speak. But it's easier to ignore them if you're saying silly things yourself.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#83. People are basically screwed-up and often the best you can do for them is listen, hear the worst and then tell it's not so bad.
Michael Nava
#84. They're not so bad. They just need some attention ... Like pets. Or my brother.
Rick Riordan
#85. It's not so bad that I can't touch my toes. But I'm not one of the most flexible guys. When you look at Novak Djokovic, you'd probably think he's made of rubber.
Tomas Berdych
#86. Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.
David Eller
#87. Do everything you're told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, 'It's not so bad.' Say 'You are almost there!' And say it a lot.
Madonna Ciccone
#88. So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.
Sarah Dessen
#89. We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.
Gary D. Schmidt
#90. The halfling was still standing, trying to straighten his dishevelled hat and fix the broken orange feather. "You know," he said nonchalantly, "sometimes is not so bad to be short." Luthien
R.A. Salvatore
#91. Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you're used to being full of joy. But it's not so bad when you're used to feeling full of pain. Hollow feels okay. Empty feels like a beginning. Which is nice, because for so long you have felt like you were at the end.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#92. I encourage you to stop saying, "I just want to look not so bad" and instead say, "I want to look fabulous."
Isaac Mizrahi
#93. I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. The 30-second format is very hard. I sometimes call it American Haiku. And I think some of the commercials I've done are not so bad.
Errol Morris
#94. Maybe you're not so bad after all.'
He leant across the seat, jabbing his finger in the air. 'If you tell anyone, I'll deny it. I have a reputation to uphold, you know.
Catherine Doyle
#95. Tyler studied him over his coffee. "From what I've seen so far you're not much of a time-waster.
And you're not so bad, for a suit."
With a half-laugh, David lifted his own coffee. Steam from it rose and merged with the mist.
"Coming from you, that's a hell of a kudo."
"Damn right.
Nora Roberts
#96. Or he could go back to the ease of solitude. It's really not so bad, being alone, never worrying about what has to be done for, or with, or in the interest of another. it's like you let your mind stay in its pajamas all day.
Elizabeth Berg
#97. Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
Helen Mirren
#98. A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. If only she believed them ...
George R R Martin
#99. It is not so bad. It is just, when I come home so tired, and then he ... I do not enjoy it. My ... my marital duties."
"Oh, my God ... He makes you do chores?!?
Joss Whedon
#100. I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.
Tina Fey
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