Quotes About Bad

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is—I will form good habits and become their slave.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

There, he said. You see? You see how this is bad for one's billiard game? This thinking? The French have come into my house to mutilate my billiard game. No evil is beyond them.

Is the universe a Good Egg or a Bad Egg?

good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns. I

I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,   Nature without check with original energy.

It is with America as it is with nature: I believe our institutions can digest, absorb, all elements, good and bad, godlike or devilish, that come along: it seems impossible for nature to fail to make good in the processes peculiar to her: in the same way it is impossible for America to fail to turn the worst luck into best--curses into blessings.

In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.

one way of looking at the process of making a film is to think of it as the search to identify what—for the particular film you are working on—is a uniquely "bad bit." So, the editor embarks on the search to identify these "bad bits" and cut them out, provided that doing so does not disrupt the structure of the "good bits" that are left.

It would be an act of the most brazen fraud to weigh the paltry social amenities provided during the colonial epoch against the exploitation, and to arrive at the conclusion that the good outweighed the bad.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

It is a good sign when man's higher nature comes forward. A bad sign when his lower nature comes forward.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Patty: I'll be the good guy. Shermy: I'll be the bad guy. Patty: What are you going to be, Charlie Brown? Charlie Brown: I'll be sort of in-between; I'll be a hypocrite!

It's not the bad ideas that do you in, it's the good ideas. And you may say, 'That can't be so. That's paradoxical. What he [Graham] meant was that if a thing is a bad idea, it's hard to overdo. But where there is a good idea with a core of essential and important truth, you can't ignore it. And then it's so easy to overdo it. So the good ideas are a wonderful way to suffer terribly if you overdo them

Things are as bad as you fear they are. People are as bad as you think they are. The Universe does not care.

I am a reporter, a leech, a merchant of misery. Bad things are good for us reporters. We are body collectors of sorts.

After much Occasion to consider the Folly and Mischiefs of a State of Warfare, and the little or no Advantage obtained even by those Nations who have conducted it with the most Success, I have been apt to think that there has never been or ever will be any such Thing as a good War or a bad Peace.

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.