Bad Quotes
14431 Bad quotes by 7051 unique authors
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Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Emotions are not 'bad.' At the roots of our emotions are primal energies which can be put to fruitful use. Indeed...the energies of enlightenment arises…
— James H. Austin
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I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.
— Willa Ford
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It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.
— Will Shetterly
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A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.
— Glennon Melton
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Successful people decide how they are going to live; they are not victims of circumstance. In good times or bad times, they know where they…
— Bob Proctor
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My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own little…
— Joao Magueijo
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children…
— Socrates
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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
— Hesiod
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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.
— Publilius Syrus
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Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
— Gautama Buddha
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The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it's a bad thing, but [(500) Days of Summer] Marc Webb…
— Manohla Dargis
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Stressful jobs, loveless marriages, bad food-most people kill themselves slowly every day.
— Arthur Nersesian
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The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s…
— Gabrielle Hamilton
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The bad guys have all the fun!
— Richard Armitage
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The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe…
— Sarah Thornton
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The number one piece of advice I would share is to recruit a mentor. Find someone you admire who is at least one generation older,…
— Bing Gordon
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There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances.
— Bree Despain
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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is…
— Adyashanti
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He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he…
— Marcus Sakey
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We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to…
— Price Pritchett
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In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it…
— Unknown Author
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But this is exactly why I read--and don't belong to a book group--because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why collectivize it? Didn't…
— Peter Orner
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A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it
— Hesiod
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