Poorly Quotes

241 quotes by 219 authors

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. — Gaston Bachelard
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader. — Robert Baden-Powell
My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed:… — Steve Ballmer
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. — Daniel Barenboim
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. — Henry Ward Beecher
I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act… — Amy Chua
I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the… — Amy Chua
No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly. — Joseph Brodsky
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when… — Theodore Beale
No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always someone who can… — Harvey Penick
Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary… — Friedrich Nietzsche
My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing, as is… — Dave Barry
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed. — Sandra Bernhard
Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of… — Richard Hamming
I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday… — Steve Pate
Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament. — Karrie Webb
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the… — Richard J. Maybury
His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as… — William Montgomery Watt
...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full… — Freeman Dyson
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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