Badly Quotes
1092 Badly quotes by 867 unique authors
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If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.
— Martha Beck
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With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to…
— Tori Spelling
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The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.
— Barbara Hambly
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The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does…
— Orson Scott Card
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He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you…
— Ann Brashares
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Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was:…
— Marya Hornbacher
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If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.…
— C.S. Lewis
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Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was…
— Stephen King
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But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another…
— Haruki Murakami
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Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us…
— Janet Fitch
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Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to…
— Margaret Atwood
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... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or…
— Harold Bloom
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It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself…
— James W. Loewen
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He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of…
— Dave Eggers
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or…
— Oscar Wilde
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The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild…
— Richard Russo
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That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.…
— Barack Obama
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If you do not join the dancing you will feel foolish. So why not dance? And i will tell you a secret: If you do…
— Robert Fulghum
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
— Galileo Galilei
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
— Salman Rushdie
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A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.
— Jodi Picoult
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My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you…
— Elise Broach
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Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving…
— Julian Gough
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I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
— Francoise Sagan
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