Quotes About Bad

bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

Hijacking by pseudoscience and bad science fiction is a threat to our legitimate sense of wonder.

The universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. Bad things happen because things happen.

Similarly, we can all agree that science's entitlement to advise us on moral values is problematic, to say the least. But does Gould really want to cede to religion the right to tell us what is good and what is bad?

A man, good or bad, was magnificent. It was not possible that this thing that was nothing and would never change [death] could mean the end of everything that moved and changed within him - the good, the bad, the magnificent. Yet it did.

I knew you could know the words but not match them with the life. But to be able to do it right said something about you. And I didn't know if my judgment was good enough, or exactly what was good or bad. Though there must be times, I thought, when there was no right thing to know, just as there were times when there was no right thing to do.

we're all just feeding off the stored fat of a dream gone bad. You want soy sauce on that?

Love is anti-mechanical, anti-materialist: that's why bad love is still good love. It may make us unhappy, but it insists that the mechanical and the material needn't be in charge

But ignoring the bad things makes you end up believing that bad things never happen. You are always surprised by them. It surprises you that guns kill, that money corrupts, that snow falls in winter.

You don't understand how the world works. That there are consequences you can't predict. That bad choices, bad deeds, can corrupt you.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.