Top 100 The Bad Quotes
#1. I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.
Billy Joel
#2. The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound.
Elmore Leonard
#3. Once the real you emerges and appears unfettered, naked, and completely in touch with the good, the bad, and the ugly, then you really meet yourself. Then all those things take on a different perspective as well.
Ron Perlman
#4. Don't get me wrong, I'm very good, I'm a loyal person and I would never treat anyone badly - what goes around comes around. But I do go for the bad boy. I haven't outgrown that.
Kierston Wareing
#5. Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.
Jessa Crispin
#6. That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.
Charles Caleb Colton
#7. The bad preacher takes the ideas of our own age and tricks them out into the traditional language of Christianity. The core of his thought is merely contemporary; only the superficies is traditional. But your teaching must be timeless at its heart and wear modern dress.
C.S. Lewis
#8. It's okay to feel lost like you're wandering around in the dark. It's the bad days that make the good ones so much better." My
Brittainy C. Cherry
#10. You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.
Stephen Dorff
#11. In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will change things much, but at the very least, you want to make people feel that they are not alone.
Elliot Perlman
#12. If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.
Thomas Friedman
#13. After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I realize is silly now - because Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with.
Matthew Quick
#14. I know it's impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them - the bad kids and the good kids and all kids - as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self- actualized.
John Green
#15. Because that's life, you know? Good and bad. You can't have one without the other. The bad brings out the good in us, and the good can be corrupted by the bad. It's always a struggle - to fight for the good, so it tips the scale. - Jet Phoenix
Rachael Wade
#16. It is right to hope for the best about everybody, and not to expect the worst. This sounds like a truism, but it has comforted me before now, and some day you'll find it useful. One has always to try to think more of others than of oneself, and it is best not to prejudge people on the bad side.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#17. Choose to see the 'good' in a person rather than pondering over the 'bad' ;human beings are but fallible....
Henrietta Newton Martin
#18. I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words. I scatter them ... in time, and space. A message to lead myself here.
Russell T. Davies
#19. It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead
#20. Contrary to the movies, police work does not consist solely of chasing after the bad guy down dark, forbidding alleyways. Most of the real chasing is done sitting behind a desk with a telephone glued to the ear, hunting down new leads and investigating paper trails.
Keith Houghton
#21. Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that's great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and you know and hope tomorrow is a good day
Roger Meddows Taylor
#22. In school, I hated poetry - those skinny,
Malnourished poems that professors love;
The bad grammar and dirty words that catch
In the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech.
Pablo, your words are rain I run through,
Grass I sleep in.
George Elliott Clarke
#23. It ain't only the bad ones, nor yet the dumb ones that gets sucked under.
James Baldwin
#24. The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.
Philip Massinger
#25. You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly.
Jenson Button
#26. Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.
Gautama Buddha
#27. My heart started racing, not the bad kind of heart racing, like I'm going to die. But the good kind of heart racing, like, Hello, can I help you with something? If not, please step aside because I'm about to kick the shit out of life.
Maria Semple
#28. We need to focus on killing the bad guys, not getting stuck in Middle Eastern civil wars that don't keep America safe.
Ted Cruz
#29. No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.
Burt Ward
#31. To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day.
Benjamin Franklin
#32. To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
Queen Latifah
#33. The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.
Paul Prudhomme
#34. Don't start from the good old things but the bad new ones.
Benjamin Noys
#35. I could stay here, I thought, make money at the track while she nurses me over the bad moments, rubs oils on my body, cooks for me, talks to me, goes to bed with me.
Charles Bukowski
#36. I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
Ang Lee
#37. Sometimes we're more terrified of the good things in life than we are of the bad. We feel we don't deserve them, or that they aren't real, that they'll disappear quickly and easily and we'll be left in the ruins.
Kandi Steiner
#38. The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.
Hamid Karzai
#39. The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.
Plato
#40. But still and all, you can cherish a miracle without deserving one. We're all of us beholden to the beauty of the world, even the bad ones of us. Maybe the bad ones most of all.
Alden Bell
#41. My show is not just a cop hosting a talk show - the two are completely different. My show is about helping people stand up to the bad guy.
Steve Wilkos
#42. Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
Lara Logan
#43. I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.
Susan Estrich
#44. Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
Edgar Allan Poe
#45. The longest-serving Republican Senator, Alaska's Ted Stevens, found guilty just a few hours ago on all charges in his corruption trial. Do you know this story? He failed to report he had some work done on his house. Yeah, here's the bad part. You know who did the work? Joe the plumber. Unlicensed.
Jay Leno
#47. As we start looking for the good, our focus automatically is taken off the bad.
Susan Jeffers
#48. To disentangle the good and the bad parts of failure, we have to recognize both the reality of the pain and the benefit of the resulting growth. Left
Ed Catmull
#49. I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.
David Sedaris
#50. I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them
the bad kids and the good kids and all kids
as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.
John Green
#51. There are always two sides to every story, Kelley. Something I learned playing Richard the Third and Macbeth: if you're playing the 'bad guy', you never really think of yourself as bad. It's just that your motives are often ... misunderstood by everyone else.
Lesley Livingston
#52. I can forgive and forget ... it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.
M. L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans
#53. My mom says crying is just your body expelling all the bad stuff. Like a sneeze. Like your soul sneezing.
Jeff Garvin
#54. The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.
John Stuart Mill
#55. I started acting when I was about nine. I always wanted to get into acting since I was really little but my parents would never let me because they'd heard all the bad stuff about being in the business as a young actor and stuff like that.
Josh Hutcherson
#56. It's not smart to hold yourself away from the shocks of life, the good ones or the bad. They're all part of the mix, and paradoxically, shying away from them only makes things harder.
Linda Lael Miller
#57. Here you can shoot the bad guys,' a mercenary says in Baghdad. 'In America we give them corporate bonuses.
Michael Robotham
#58. The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.
Tullian Tchividjian
#60. Everybody wants to play in the playoffs. You don't know how good the good times were until you hit the bad times. But sometimes success is just around the corner.
Trevor Linden
#61. Spinners take out the bad stuff, leave in the good. I've always thought how nice it would be to have spinners like this for human beings. Just toss them in and let the spinner do its work.
Sue Monk Kidd
#62. I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.
John Krasinski
#63. What is love? When you love somebody then I mean we all want good things to happen to ourselves and keep the bad things at bay. When you love somebody you want that as much for them if not more than you do for yourself.
Rebecca Goldstein
#64. In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news ... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.
Alice Stewart
#65. We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on the other side the bad, why, all I can say is that you have a wrong notion of things.
Susan Glaspell
#66. But the point is that trying to make things better sometimes makes us better, too. The point is I'm trying to create good things in the midst of the bad. Grief or no grief. And in my case, it's still somewhere in between.
Emery Lord
#67. Things happen in this life. Sometimes they're good things, and sometimes they're bad things. You have to come to terms with the bad things, especially when you can't change them.
Chuck Wendig
#68. When you're younger you're so happy to get some good loving you convince yourself you're in love, can't live with out it, and chase the dick like a crack addict after the pipe, or chase the bad sex hoping something happened to the man over night and the next time it'll be good.
Jill Nelson
#69. Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.
Padgett Powell
#70. I hate to say this, but it is my experience that when a doctor goes to the bad, he is a fouler and darker creature than the worst cut-throat.
Neil Gaiman
#71. Sometimes we have to find the courage to take off our shoes and feel it all. Even the bad stuff.
Denise Hunter
#72. In the beginning, I thought mobile search was not much different from Web search. It's just a smaller screen, a slower speed; it's all the bad things. When I thought about mobile Internet, it's all the disadvantages.
Robin Li
#73. Girls, watch out for the bad guys! ... there are those capable of showering their resources on you just to dance on top of you, and finally destroy your good image and reputation.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#74. I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political.
Luise Rainer
#75. All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent
Elinor Smith
#76. The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
Joe Biden
#77. Keep in mind that God's sovereignty allows Him to even use that which is not cooperating with Him (the bad) in order to move things to where He wants them to go.
Tony Evans
#78. In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful to combat other bad thoughts face to face, but not thoughts of impurity.
Alphonsus Liguori
#79. I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Oliver North
#80. Tallie looked for something to throw, but considering the fact that she threw like a girl, she dumped that plan in lieu of grabbing her new iron and swinging it like a bowling ball between the bad man's legs, where it connected with a nauseating _thunk_.
Stephanie Bond
#81. Don't lose faith in the good things, even when life is tough. The good things come in waves, along with the bad.
Julianne MacLean
#83. I eat right, I sleep, I work out, I'm happy. I have a beautiful family, nice friends. I choose the good things. I choose the happy, healthy things. I don't choose the bad, unhealthy, unhappy things.
Sharon Stone
#84. Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.
Mariana Klaveno
#85. When others hurt you, Accept that it hurts, Have faith in the bad and the good.
Stuart Ayris
#86. The bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and a Goodyear blimp.
Dave Barry
#87. The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.
J. K. Bharavi
#88. It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed."
"That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.
Terry Pratchett
#89. ...bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs.
J.D. Vance
#90. If you close your emotions off so the bad stuff can't get in. You make it so the good stuff can't get in either.
E.M. Crane
#91. I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc., but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart, to Discharge and the Bad Brains, and to Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington. So I think there's merit to both the melodic punk and to the hardcore stuff too.
Dave Smalley
#92. It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.
T.H. White
#93. Sometimes things would be so much simpler if you could just pull out your gun and shoot the bad guy. Reason number seventeen why Indiana Jones is my hero.
Jennifer Rardin
#94. Some people are scared to tell the truth, but I'm going to tell you the Good, the bad, the ugly," it's like, "Let's go there. Let's talk about it."
LeCrae
#95. For years, Blockbuster Video has edited movies. Like The Bad Lieutenant, when he's masturbating while the girls in the car are doing the thing. I rented it from Blockbuster and sped to that scene, and it was gone. I called up Blockbuster, and I'm like, "I got an erection, and the scene's not there."
Louis C.K.
#96. Tomorrow, his training would begin. Tomorrow, he could start helping them find that missing something. Right then Thomas made a decision. Forget all the weird stuff. Forget all the bad things. Forget it all. He wouldn't quit until he'd solved the puzzle and found a way home.
James Dashner
#97. These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.
Nicholas Sparks
#98. I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
Maeve Binchy
#99. Beta Males make excellent spies. Not the "James Bond, Aston Martin with missiles, boning the beautiful Russian rocket scientist on an ermineskin bedspread" sort of spy - more the "bad comb-over, deep-cover bureaucrat fishing coffee-sodden documents out of a Dumpster" spy.
Christopher Moore
#100. And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I'd done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.
John Green
