Badness Quotes (page 103)

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• work
• bad
• enough

There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it. Danielle Steel

• challenge
• attitude
• eyes

And there I was, pretty as heck, brown eyes, a few freckles, fashion challenged, and a bad attitude. Max II. James Patterson

• savage
• war
• thank you

I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that habit for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility of resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of Canada, because the maladies to which I am condemned render a European surgeon necessary to me; because war is going on in those regions; and... Voltaire

• picture
• light
• life

And from the height of this perception all that had previously tormented and preoccupied him suddenly became illumined by a cold white light without shadows, without perspective, without distinction of outline. All life appeared to him like magic-lantern pictures at which he had long been gazing by artificial light through a glass. Now he suddenly saw those badly daubed pictures in clear daylight and without a glass. Leo Tolstoy

• thinking
• she
• understanding

I know it’s going to be bad for you, Jacob. I understand that—maybe better than you think. I don’t like her, but… she’s your Sam. She’s everything you want and everything you can’t have. Stephenie Meyer

• life
• about life
• bad

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse. Bill Watterson

• good
• thinking
• reflection

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form? J. M. Barrie

• love
• water
• bird

The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface. Suzanne Collins

• struggle
• look
• words

Be honest, how hideous do I look?"He took another step back and pursed his lips."That bad, huh?" I muttered. No, no Bella. Actually. . ." He seemed to be struggling for the right word. "You look. . . sexy."I laughed out loud. "Right."Very sexy, really. Stephenie Meyer

• good
• die
• bad

When good Americans die, they go to Paris"Where do bad Americans go?"They stay in America Oscar Wilde

• good
• she
• bad

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• bad
• plans
• where

Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan. Phil Foglio

• wishes
• smile
• storm

And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself. Dean Koontz

• author
• love
• king

What was behind this smug presumption that what pleased you was bad or at least unimportant in comparison to other things? … Little children were trained not to do “just what they liked’ but … but what? … Of course! What others liked. And which others? Parents, teachers, supervisors, policemen, judges, officials, kings, dictators. All authorities. When you are trained to despise “just what you like” then, of course, you become a much more obedient servant of others — a good slave. When you... Robert M. Pirsig

• good
• soul
• bad

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. Mark Twain