Bad Quotes

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

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

Bad men are full of repentance.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

I don't believe in auditioning. I'm a bad auditioner. I don't like it.

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.

Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.

When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

I'm always nervous! Especially when it comes to a series like 'Disgaea', where you do have such a devoted fan base, the last thing you want to do is disappoint. But I love playing bad guys and just always hope that fans will be forgiving if I miss the mark.

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

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

When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.

Boy I could do this forever; I truly enjoy bad guys.

Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets.

My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

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.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.