Top 100 To Bad Quotes
#1. Brandt and a couch-or worse, an empty master bedroom-were a very bad combo. He morphed from vaguely risque fling to bad-boy octopus man whenever he was in the vicinity of any marginally promising flat surface.
Diana Peterfreund
#2. If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness.
Billy Graham
#3. Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.
Kelly Link
#4. Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made of an energetic nature, than of an indolent and impassive one.
John Stuart Mill
#5. I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead?
Thank you. Anton.
Ben Goldacre
#6. And how are you, Ferdinand?" "You don't have to ask. You mustn't think it's bad just for you. It's bad for everybody. That's the terrible thing. It's bad for Prosper, bad for the man they gave your shop to, bad for everybody. Nobody's going anywhere.
V.S. Naipaul
#7. Our lives are shaped by the questions we ask. Good questions lead to good outcomes. Bad questions lead to bad outcomes.
Michael Hyatt
#8. We don't lock up books in this house," Philippe said, "only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior.
Deborah Harkness
#9. The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Melissa Harris-Perry
#10. The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.
Win Butler
#11. Luke-freakin'-Holtz. Damn. To bad I didn't meet him two months ago. Right now, I can't imagine dating anyone ever again. I'm going to become a nun.
Veronica Blade
#13. Some of the bravest and most resourceful people in the world have come to bad ends
Lemony Snicket
#14. Life is messy and the universe has an awful lot of people to keep track of. Sometimes things get screwed up. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes good things happen to bad people.
That isn't fair.
Bad things should happen to bad people.
And they will. They will.
Amy Zhang
#15. Be kind to bad and good, for you don't know your own heart.
Sarah Winnemucca
#16. If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.
Philip K. Jason
#17. Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.
Jupiter Hammon
#18. From good to bad, and from bad to worse,
From worse unto that is worst of all,
And then return to his former fall.
Edmund Spenser
#19. If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.
Philip Yancey
#20. Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed mistakes lead to bad reviews. Bad reviews are the tools of the dark side.
Eric T. Benoit
#21. One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things.
Gillian Flynn
#22. It meant he was a cat and he'd do whatever he pleased, when he pleased, and if I didn't like it, that was just to bad.
Laurie Cass
#23. If you see a group of people struggling over generations and you attribute those struggles to bad character, then you do not truly believe we are all created equally.
Jonathan R. Miller
#24. I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#25. Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.
Joyce Meyer
#26. Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.
Matt Chandler
#27. This sense of entitlement contributes mightily to sloppiness, to low incentive, to boredom, to bad choices, to instant gratification, to constant demands for more, and to all kinds of addictions (including the addiction to technology).
Richard Eyre
#28. The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
Omar Bongo
#29. Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
Carl Jung
#30. Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again ... , only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.
Asger Jorn
#31. There were many paths that led up into those mountains, and many passes over them. But most of the paths were cheats and deceptions and led nowhere or to bad ends; and most of the passes were infested by evil things and dreadful dangers.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#32. You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
Renzo Piano
#33. She was not so forbearing when it came to bad breath. After receiving one French envoy, she exclaimed, 'Good God! What shall I do if this man stay here, for I smell him an hour after he has gone!' Her words were reported back to the envoy, who at once betook himself back to France in shame.
Alison Weir
#34. I don't believe in destroying GOOD mysteries or adding to BAD reputations.
John Balance
#35. Can we really choose anything?'
'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.
Isaac Marion
#36. It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.
Neil Cavuto
#37. Swinging harder with a longer club almost always leads to bad shots.
Ernie Els
#39. The hard truth is, bad meetings almost always lead to bad decisions, which is the best recipe for mediocrity.
Patrick Lencioni
#41. No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton
#42. I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.
Martin O'Malley
#43. Bad things happen to good people and Good things happen to bad people..that's just how life is. Yet ... A Great person is the one that will overcome it all!
Timothy Pina
#44. For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
John Milton
#45. As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dramatic reactions to bad news involving strangers are hypocrites.
John Elder Robison
#46. Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
Alexander Pope
#47. Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the best-case scenario, anyway) absolutely right.
Anthony Bourdain
#48. In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves.. good and bad.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#49. The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour.
Alexander McCall Smith
#50. Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation.
Li Bingbing
#52. Fabulous. This night had shifted from the best to bad to Saw in record time.
Katie McGarry
#53. Look its very simple: You're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. You dare to be bad, I've got good reflex. Can go to bad bitch mode in no time.
Shreya Gupta
#54. Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.
Sheri Holman
#55. You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.
Joe Abercrombie
#56. Maybe my viriety is due to bad absorption of vitamins.
Stephen Hawking
#57. Depression is not madness, it's just depression, the loser version, the low-energy response to bad stuff that happens in your life. When you're depressed, you think you're the only one to have ever tasted this kind of hurt. And that lonely self-regard brings with it its own painful pleasure.
Ana Menendez
#58. When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
Walter Darby Bannard
#59. The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.
Jim Wallis
#60. It was one thing to be attracted to bad boys, something I usually didn't suffer from. It was another to be attracted to bad men. Mad Rogan was a really bad, bad man.
Ilona Andrews
#61. I only have two reactions to bad news. Uncontrollable rage and then a sharp left turn into boiling self-hatred.
Cassandra Clare
#62. The sort of resilient personality who can bounce back quickly after a major setback, does so largely because they quickly generate positive emotions which serve as a physical and psychological antidote to bad news.
Nick Baylis
#63. The whole what-goes-around-comes-around thing is simply our way of trying to make sense out of things that make no sense. Great stuff happens to bad people. Bad shit happens to good people. This is just the way it is.
Zoey Dean
#64. I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.
Christopher Shays
#65. I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
S. Truett Cathy
#66. It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
Brian Eno
#67. When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.
Michelle Yeoh
#68. I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.
Shakira
#69. Some experimenters have reported that an angry face "pops out" of a crowd of happy faces, but a single happy face does not stand out in an angry crowd. The brains of humans and other animals contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
Daniel Kahneman
#70. Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.
Nicholas Kristof
#71. Could it be that Christians, eager to point out how good we are, neglect the basic fact that the gospel sounds like good news only to bad people?
Philip Yancey
#72. Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.
Rob Sheffield
#73. I'm a great believer in relativity when making movies. Relativity, in my mind, meaning "Light to dark, big to small, good to bad." You visually embrace these things to enhance transitions and instantly paint environments and moods.
Gordon Willis
#74. The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.'
That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.
Keith Ablow
#75. I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.
Chuck Lorre
#76. I want to reach back into my history with a grade-school pink eraser, scrubbing away my decisions like mistakes on a math test. To bad I drew my mistakes in ink.
Emery Lord
#77. When you don't respond to bad behavior, you get more of it.
Carly Fiorina
#78. Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.
Clint Eastwood
#79. Life's journey is but a series of steps. It only takes one step in a different direction to change that from good to bad, or from good to even better. Make sure your next step takes you in the right directions.
Jean Williams
#81. We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.
Geoffrey Gray
#82. Errors were doubtless committed on all sides, delusions set on foot which there was not time to dissipate and means, designed for good ends, perverted to bad purposes.
Martin Van Buren
#83. We add caveats to prayers like seasoning to bad sauce. We hope for something else or something more, but we forget. Sometimes life isn't the pleasure of the taste, rather the nutrition we get from it.
Shannon L. Alder
#84. Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
George Soros
#85. Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn't quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn't love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful "just deserts," which I thought must be poisoned food at the end of delicious meals.
John Hersey
#86. The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.
Ernest Becker
#87. So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.
John Milton
#88. Sometimes the only way to call attention to bad construction was to set fire to the building.
Larry Niven
#89. It is the attention we give to bad situations that stops us from getting out of them.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#91. Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.
Lee Daniels
#92. The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition.
Robert Agostinelli
#93. good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.
Donald J. Trump
#94. I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.
Ian McKellen
#95. Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.
Jackson Katz
#96. We're always taught that bad things happen to bad people and we believe that we're somehow above experiencing a tragedy, but we learned that's all bullshit.
Matt Abrams
#97. We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong ... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.
Alexander Bickel
#98. For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
M. Night Shyamalan
#100. We must not hate humanity, or despise humanity, or refuse to help humanity; but we must not trust humanity; in the sense of trusting a trend in human nature which cannot turn back to bad things.
G.K. Chesterton
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