Badly Quotes
1092 Badly quotes by 867 unique authors
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You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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My father would take you wherever you wanted to go," he told her softly. "I was pretty sure I could talk you into staying, but…
— Patricia Briggs
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I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to…
— Patricia Briggs
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When one lover suffered from a broken heart, no matter how badly the other wanted to help, she couldn't be the one to heal it.
— Lauren Kate
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Will,” she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot ache that spread…
— Cassandra Clare
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If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I…
— Patrick Ness
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I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were…
— Hermann Hesse
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Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly…
— Anthony Horowitz
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It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.
— Deborah Harkness
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I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have…
— Anna Deavere Smith
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Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible…
— Matthew Quick
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If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
— C.S. Lewis
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Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing…
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the…
— Rachel Caine
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A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
— Thomas Merton
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I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something…
— Gretchen Rubin
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too…
— Douglas Coupland
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I want to be inside you so badly, Grace,” he whispered. “I want to feel your legs wrapped around me, feel your breasts against my…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The night we met-I'm not like that guy." His jaw was rigid. "I know tha-" He placed a finger over my lips, his expression softening.…
— Tammara Webber
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That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ...
— Daniel Handler
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I miss him so badly it hurts.
— Suzanne Collins
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We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of course,'…
— Gerald Durrell
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