Top 100 Very Bad Quotes
#1. A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.
Annie Besant
#2. Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
Paul Theroux
#3. I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
Isabel Allende
#4. Horror is when you know and love the characters, but you also know something very bad is going to happen to them. It's not the monsters!
Stephen King
#5. To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.
Wyndham Lewis
#6. Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
Jose Saramago
#7. When I moped for too long, letting the poor-me blues clamp around my ankles and drag me down to very bad places, he would fight to get me back,
Piper Kerman
#8. I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian.
Ruth Rendell
#9. We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.
Henry Rollins
#10. I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this, I do think as well that a priori objections by philosophers to successful research programs in the sciences have a very bad track record.
Hilary Kornblith
#11. It's important to accessorise. I always turn to the scarves, hats and sunglasses. But wearing too many accessories at once can look very bad.
Kate Moss
#12. I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.
Paula Fox
#13. I'm sometimes accused of being hostile to mutual funds. That's not fair, really. There is a place for them. Still, I am hostile to one thing, which is trying to use funds to time your way in and out of the market. That's a recipe for very bad results.
Kenneth Fisher
#15. I wanted music very bad this evening, that singing devotchka in the Korova having perhaps started me off. I wanted like a big feast of it before getting my passport stamped, my brothers, at sleep's frontier and the stripy shest lifted to let me through.
Anthony Burgess
#16. The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?
Jeff Lindsay
#17. I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
Werner Herzog
#18. The human body appreciates peace of mind. Things that are disturbing to us have a very bad effect upon our health. This shows that the whole structure of our health is such that it is suited to an atmosphere of human affection.
Dalai Lama XIV
#19. I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.
Shehan Karunatilaka
#20. Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings.
Dan Gelber
#21. Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.
Ricky Hatton
#22. In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.
Gore Vidal
#23. In his Social Contract, Rousseau noted the obvious, that Law is a very good thing for men with property and a very bad thing for men without property.
Saul D. Alinsky
#24. Well, did Owl always have a letter-box in his ceiling?"
"Has he?"
"Yes, look."
"I can't," said Pooh. "I'm face downwards under something, and that, Piglet, is a very bad position for looking at ceilings."
"Well, he has, Pooh."
"Perhaps he's changed it," said Pooh. "Just for a change.
A.A. Milne
#25. From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.
Joseph Fiennes
#26. Because life, as Pablo Picasso averred, 'is a very bad novel', it has to be reworked through the writers' suffering into something much more meaningful, much more valuable. A life lived and relived, then, emitting intensity and beauty only achievable by a journey through pain.
Cirilo F. Bautista
#27. I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
Daniel Okrent
#28. You have to be gentle with the young, W. says. They're a gentle generation, like fauns, he says, and require a special tenderness. Their lives are going to be bad--very bad--and, at the very least, we should be tender with them, and not remind them of what is to come.
Lars Iyer
#29. I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'
Nathan Fielder
#30. In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
Agnes Smedley
#31. The city planners in hell either had very bad taste or a strange sense of humor
Sarah Fine
#32. Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.
Javier Marias
#33. We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
Yitzhak Shamir
#34. There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.
Ray Dalio
#35. I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#36. After listening intently for a few seconds, he turned to me. "North Vietnam?" He shook his head derisively. "Very, very bad." He listened some more, then denounced Brezhnev.
Rob Reid
#37. People often make very bad mistakes because people often don't ask very simple crucial questions before their actions!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.
Claire Tomalin
#39. The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe
#40. The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment
Immanuel Wallerstein
#41. My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation before when times were very bad in Ireland. He worked in the Pennsylvania area and did well with horses and farming.
Kelli O'Hara
#42. And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
Norman MacCaig
#43. People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes.
Craig Venter
#44. It was very bad for me that my deafness happened at around the same time as I discovered my clitoris.
Jeanette Winterson
#45. Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were greatly persecuted now looks like a country that is persecuting people. And that's very bad.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#46. Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.
Penn Jillette
#47. That's what starts to happen, when you know it is possible for you to feel pain you have no control over. You become vulnerable. Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from. And that, for me, was very bad news indeed.
Matt Haig
#48. At home we've played very bad. That's the reality. We finished good, but we had problems at home.
Andres Nocioni
#49. I have no taste for work any longer, I can do nothing more except wait for night.
530: Things are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#50. America's image throughout the world is very bad.
John McCain
#51. We are set to make very bad history.
Tom Wilson
#53. One of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.
Junot Diaz
#54. Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Denis Diderot
#55. I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
Jack Whitehall
#56. Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.
Mick Jagger
#57. It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it. 'You
Stephen King
#58. I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them.
Tommy Lee Jones
#59. The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.
Luther Burbank
#60. When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'
Mickey Rourke
#61. Dancing is like breathing-missing a day doing either is very bad.
Vera-Ellen
#62. One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.
Roger Corman
#63. I don't like the way I look in a car. The lighting is very bad.
Amanda Bynes
#65. It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
John Ortberg
#66. You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
Alain De Botton
#67. What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there.
Truman Capote
#68. I felt very bad in Washington ... I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.
Langston Hughes
#69. When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
Yaya Toure
#70. A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better.
Paul Theroux
#71. It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.
Olivia Goldsmith
#72. Saint Padre Pio was hearing the confession of a man who was leading a very bad life. Padre Pio warned him that if he didn't change his immoral living, he would end up in hell. The man answered Padre Pio: "I don't believe in hell!" Padre Pio immediately retorted, "You will when you get there!
Andrew Apostoli
#73. In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.
Ludivine Sagnier
#74. Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.
George Sand
#75. The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.
Alethea Kontis
#76. When Google went into China, there were some people who said they shouldn't compromise at all - that it is very bad for human rights to do so. But there were other people, particularly Chinese people, who said they were glad Google had gone in.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#77. In some company it's perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.
George Carlin
#78. I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . I did not need it very bad.
Henry Ford
#79. The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
Joe Orton
#80. It is very bad policy to ask one flying machine man about the experiments of another, because every flying machine man thinks that his method is the only correct one.
David McCullough
#81. You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.
Victoria Woodhull
#82. I am a bad man, very bad, but in a different way. I want to ravish you until we're both senseless with it, and then I want to do it all over again.
Jennifer Ashley
#83. Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.
Winston Churchill
#84. We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.
Marc Andreessen
#85. Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.
Dorothy Parker
#86. Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.
Craig Claiborne
#87. I don't think evil is sexy! I don't think being cruel and mean and hurting other people is sexy! ... Although I have been quite attracted to some very bad boys!
Madonna Ciccone
#88. A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.
Tom McClintock
#90. So, in other words, we tore our world apart to get rid of these gods. And they were very bad gods, right?' I say, just to be clear. 'Not just messing around and having funsies with their adoring followers but truly wicked and vile?
Liz De Jager
#91. You ever read Thucydides? I'll boil him down for you into one easy moral: intergenerational civil war is a very bad thing.
Adrian McKinty
#92. The Major wished young men wouldn't think so much. It always seemed to result in absurd revolutionary movements or, as in the case of several of his former pupils, the production of very bad poetry.
Helen Simonson
#93. They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#94. No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
Francis Lockier
#95. America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy.
Chaka Khan
#96. You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.
Marc Chagall
#98. He really was a very bad leader in that respect - and it was why his Arrows gave him their unswerving dedication. All of them rejects from the world, from their families. No one else had ever come for them, ever would. Silence or not, it mattered that Aden would.
Nalini Singh
#99. Because you may find yourself in a very bad position, Rohinmey," Dasai said. "If things go wrong, I do not want you to fight. I want you to live.
Kameron Hurley
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