B Quotes
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“Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.”
“Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.”
“Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“Bad and Wrong
Enable you to learn,
Good and Right.”
“Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.”
“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.”
“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Bad art is from no one to no one.”
Source: 300 Arguments: Essays
“Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.”
Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews
“Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.”
Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.”
“Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly - if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft pornography became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.”
“Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Bad artists always admire each others work.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
“Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.”
Source: Finding Your Way In A Wild New World: Four steps to fulfilling your true calling
“Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest - is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves' actions.”
“Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.”
“Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.”
“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.”
“Bad attitudes will ruin your team.”
“Bad b****es do not have promiscuous sex.”
“Bad backs are an occupational disease of nursing.”
“Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.”
“Bad bananas are like push-up bras--a promise of tenderness can deliver tasteless mush, and we're not supposed to complain.”
Source: A Commonplace Book of Pie
“Bad beginnings, bad endings.”
“Bad behavior don't make us cool, it only exposes the fool we are.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.”
“Bad beliefs lead to bad thoughts; bad thoughts lead to bad actions; bad actions lead to bad results; bad results lead to bad feelings.”
Source: Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!
“Bad beliefs make bad behavior.”
Source: The Christ and the Creed ...
“BAD BLOOD": Stabler and Benson will never forget the case where solving the crime was so much worse than the crime itself.”
Source: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.”
Source: Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays
“Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.”
“Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”
“Bad boss? Fire him/her. When you're interviewing for a job, You're job is to interview them. You are an equal.”
“Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn't shoot anybody.”
“Bad boyfriends don't disguise themselves; their girlfriends do it for them.”
Source: Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
“Bad boys do get the girls.”
“Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.”
“Bad Bunny is more American than the Slovenian mail-order-bride in what’s left of the White House.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“Bad business last night. Chances are, that would be all Graham had to say about the death of a man he had known his whole life. These folk knew all about death. They killed their own livestock. They died from fevers, falls, or broken bones gone sour. Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income.”
Source: Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
“Bad career choices will take you into sickness.”
“Bad chances were better than no chances.”
Source: Under the Dome: Part 2: A Novel
“Bad choices almost always result from making a choice out of fear.”
“Bad choices make good stories.”
Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Going to New York
“Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.”
Source: Perfect
“Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.”
“Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.”
“Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.”
Source: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph