Badly Quotes

1092 Badly quotes by 867 unique authors

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car… — Bertrand Russell
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. — Harper Lee
It will all end very badly, Gus — John Kennedy Toole
Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and… — Jodi Picoult
in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel… — Adrienne Rich
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into… — Kurt Vonnegut
Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly. — Aldous Huxley
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love,… — Julian Barnes
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to… — Dalai Lama
The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't… — James A. Baldwin
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give… — Randy Pausch
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like… — Robert Bringhurst
From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar… — Don Marquis
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find… — Cornelia Funke
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly. — Alice Munro
All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly… — Terry Pratchett
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,… — Anne Fadiman
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on… — Margaret Atwood
Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides… — Megan Whalen Turner
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over… — Anne Lamott
I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He… — Kurt Vonnegut
As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths… — Jennifer Weiner

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