Quotes About Bad

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

He saw everything external as being separate from himself, and fell into the trap of dualism, rather than seeing the mind as a mirror with the capacity to reflect without dualistic notions of good and bad. Her home is the first thought before we solidify what we perceive, when we let perception in without putting all impressions into pigeonholes.

I don't have an evil plan!" said Peril, panicking. "All my evil is spur of the moment! Turtle, tell them how bad I am at planning.

Maybe losing your soul isn't the right way to describe it," Turtle said. "Maybe it's more like … the more you use your power for bad things, the more you feel like you're entitled to use your power for anything. It makes it harder to go back — only forward into more bad things.

I mean . . . there are dragons who do bad things, Fathom said. But maybe that doesn't make them all bad. Maybe they can also do good things. Maybe some of those bad things are just mistakes.

Emotional risk also occurs when investors are drawn to bad investment choices just because they sound good, are popular, or are pushed by family or friends.

fellow paddler—a Malawian, who knew this stretch of the river well—pointed to a reach in the stream ahead, a bank of mud huts partly hidden by tall reeds, and said, "There are bad people in that place"—a place we could not avoid passing.

I learned something recently: our true friends are those are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with the sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives. When things were bad last year, various people I had never ever seen before turned up to 'console' me. I hate that.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance, because in the scene I'm really mad.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

Agreeing on the "why" takes all the romance out of everything, takes all the seduction. Seduction used to be an art. Now of course it's brutish and it's predatory and it's bad.

Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.

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.

We knew that Red Deer would be a bad gig as soon as we entered the city limits, where a giant Shell sign with the S burnt out blinked at us from a sixty-foot pole. Welcome to HELL.

You're not gonna believe this, but generally speaking, good guys follow rules while bad guys don't.

conspicuously perched in the eye of a bad party's somewhat forced-feeling storm of wit and good cheer

That old cartridge, Nichols and the big Indian. Distortion. They give you a general here right? They put you under. It's not that bad. I'll go willingly.

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.

Music oft hath such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought,] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.