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… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
“If you have had a bad day, remember that tomorrow is a wonderful gift and a new chance to try again.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all… — Lon Chaney, Jr Copy Share Image
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.” — Daniel T. O'Hara Copy Share Image
If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the worse word. — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth. — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself:… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
