"We can't be as good as we'd want……" — Nick Hornby
"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"
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212 Quotes by Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby has 212 quotes on this site.
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Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time…
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of…
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Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
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[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright…
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One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to…
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Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
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I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.
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I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records…
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Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
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Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point…
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I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from…
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It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we…
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More Badness Quotes
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one of 42 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.
— Edward VII
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be…
— Alexander Hamilton
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What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?
— Unknown Author
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A real turnoff for guys is any girl who is way too into them. Like, you`re being way too nice.…
— Kellan Lutz
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Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the…
— Roger Ebert
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Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By…
— Ian Fleming
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If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the…
— John Mulaney
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The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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It is easy to love friends and sweethearts. This is selfish love. Higher love embraces enemies and all ugly, bad…
— Michio Kushi
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Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to…
— C.S. Lewis
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Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma,…
— Andrew Hill
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Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness" inside them...Chances are they were already…
— Otto Weininger
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