Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness…

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your…

— Peter Abrahams

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes…

— David Morrissey

A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

— Al-Ghazali

“If you have had a bad day, remember that tomorrow is a wonderful gift and a new chance to try again.”

— Bryant McGill

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches…

— Charles Spurgeon

“They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like…

— Anthony Burgess

“But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of…

— C.S. Lewis

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

— Aristotle

All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the…

— Lon Chaney, Jr

Before you^say something Bad to^others ask your-self^why are^you the only one saw^the badness and-->

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace,…

— Tullian Tchividjian

When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly…

— Lionel Shriver

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual…

— Lionel Trilling

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That…

— Alex Haley

“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.”

— Daniel T. O'Hara