Badness Quotes (page 82)

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• bad
• thinking
• people

Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. Anna Sewell

• personality
• expectation
• bad

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when betterbehavior is expected of them. Jane Austen

• sharing
• water
• work

Because secrets do not increase in value if kept in a gore-ian lockbox, because one's past is either made useful or else mutates and becomes cancerous. We share things for the obvious reasons: it makes us feel un-alone, it spreads the weight over a larger area, it holds the possibility of making our share lighter. And it can work either way - not simply as a pain-relief device, but, in the case of not bad news but good, as a share-the-happy-things-I've-seen/lessons-I've-learned vehicle. Or as... Dave Eggers

• people
• thinking
• bad

Do you think Friday unlucky? No, I think Friday lucky, All Christian people, whatever their lighter superstitions, have always thought Friday lucky. Otherwise they would have talked about Bad Friday instead of Good Friday. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• people
• bad
• badly

Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit. Philip K. Dick

• god
• help
• bad

But the same badness which makes us need it, makes us unable to do it [repent]. Can we do it if God helps us? Yes. C. S. Lewis

• good
• bad
• enough

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. Mark Twain

• good
• bad
• good ideas

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. Linus Pauling

• night
• running
• good

All night long I worried, not about myself but about Jimmy. I imagined him looking for me, running through the park, looking in the movie theatres. He was a good man, considerate and kind, but he was not strong. He had never been through any kind of bad hardship before. So I worried. Amy Tan

• wisdom
• good
• manly

Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging. Lloyd Alexander

• life
• attitude
• bad

The only handicap in life is a bad attitude. Scott Hamilton

• happy
• giving
• valentines day

Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it... Jeanette Winterson

• smoking
• soul
• evening

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you. Elizabeth Gilbert

• pride
• hurt
• help

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others. George Eliot

• him
• bad
• bear

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Evelyn Waugh