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Bad One Quotes (page 5)

... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent. Harold Bloom
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote... T. S. Eliot
One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, I hope that you will love me for no good reason. But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another – to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers. Especially to strangers, who have neither good nor bad reasons to love us. And it’s why we tell each other stories that we pray will be transformed in the telling by that angel on the roof, made believable and about us all, no matter who we... Russell Banks
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. Denis Diderot
John Dewey quote: "One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some..."
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. John Dewey
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed. Maimonides
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare. Friedrich Nietzsche
One question at any rate was answered. Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm. George Orwell
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a..."
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed. Stephen King
Francesco Guicciardini quote: "One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model;..."
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. Francesco Guicciardini
One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character. Ethan Hawke
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care. Michael Korda
Charles Bukowski quote: "one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid"
one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid Charles Bukowski
Richard Dawkins quote: "One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us..."
One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding. Richard Dawkins

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