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Bad Quotes (page 75)

Graham Greene quote: "I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might..."
I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings. Graham Greene
If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage but to pass your enthusiasm to a child. Find a child and read to it often the things you admire, not being afraid to read the classics. Robert MacNeil
Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad poets who made a living by parasitizing him, wrote the splendid line, 'was there ever dog that praised his fleas? Richard Dawkins
Norton Juster quote: "Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to..."
Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.- Humbug Norton Juster
Ammon Hennacy quote: "Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and..."
Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them. Ammon Hennacy
William Shakespeare quote: "I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse..."
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. William Shakespeare
So you are tired of your life, young man! All the more reason have you to live. Anyone can die. A murderer has moral force enough to jeer at his hangman. It is very easy to draw the last breath. It can be accomplished successfully by a child or a warrior. One pang of far less anguish than the toothache, and all is over. There is nothing heroic about it, I assure you! It is as common as going to bed; it is almost prosy. Life is heroism, if you like; but death is a mere cessation of business.... Marie Corelli
Calvin Coolidge quote: "It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good..."
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. Calvin Coolidge
Alain de Botton quote: "Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of..."
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. Alain de Botton
You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth. “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. Mitch Albom
Karl Lagerfeld quote: "If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start."
If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start. Karl Lagerfeld
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer. Confucius
Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art: It redeems the bad and perfects the good. Because nature commonly forsakes us at her best, take refuge in art. The best in nature is raw without art, and the excellent is lacking if it lacks culture. Without cultivation everyone is a clown and needs polish, fine attributes notwithstanding. Baltasar Gracian
Friedrich Schiller quote: "If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art,..."
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad. Friedrich Schiller
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly. Robert M. Pirsig

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