B Quotes
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“Bad music will damage your mindset, but Good ones will renew your mind.”
“Bad nature never lacks an instructor.”
“Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.”
Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment
“Bad news for liberals: regulatory tinkering is useless in this life-and-death context. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration was designed to police the core part of the problem, workplace safety... Serious enforcement of even the rather vague standards enforceable in theory by OSHA would probably bring the economy to a standstill. The enforcers apparently appreciate this, since they don't even try to crack down on most malefactors.”
Source: The Abolition of Work
“Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.”
“Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.”
“Bad news. If you can see it coming, you brace yourself; you weigh the outcome. But there's always that niggling voice, that voice of hope whispering, 'Maybe it's good news.' Whether you can admit it or not, that little whisper is a potent thing.”
Source: Betting Blind
“Bad news is bad news.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“Bad news is bad news because it drops your willingness to carry on.”
“Bad news is dramatic. It makes good TV. If there's a firefight on the same day that a school opens up, the media will show the firefight even though the school is way more important and will affect the community for much longer.”
“Bad news is just an excuse.”
“Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.”
Source: My American Journey
“Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step”
“Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.”
Source: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
“Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.”
“Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.”
“bad news travels faster than good.”
“Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.”
“Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is they think now that the oil spill will be diluted by the melting ice caps.”
“Bad nights lead to better days”
“Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
“Bad or evil people draw their strength and power from anonymity and secrecy. Their influence depends on remaining hidden. Once they are exposed or their actions are revealed, they lose their power and all the leverage they once had. They are only powerful when they operate in the shadows. When no one knows what they are doing, how they are doing it, or who is behind it. They cannot bear the shame of being seen, because what they are doing is evil, barbaric, disgusting, and inhuman. They gain the courage to commit more harmful and twisted acts only when they believe no one knows it is them.”
“Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to go always towards the summer, towards those burning seas of light; to sit at night in the forecastle lost in an unfamiliar dream, when the spirit becomes filled with stars, instead of wounds, and good and compassionate and tender. To sail into an unknown spring, or receive one's baptism on storm's promontory, where the solitary albatross heels over in the gale, and at last come to land. To know the earth under one's foot and go, in wild delight, ways where there is water.”
Source: Ultramarine
“Bad people are everywhere, but you won't find good ones easily.”
Source: The Same Old Story
“Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.”
Source: The House of the Dead
“Bad People can give you life changing motivation.”
“Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.”
“Bad people don't go to hell, they are already there.”
Source: No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life
“Bad people drink bad beer. You almost never see an empty bottle of Rochefort tossed onto the side of the road.”
“Bad people often end up as heroes.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“Bad people, racists or grifters are always spreading lies, rumors, and misinformation about others while hiding the truth about themselves—who they are, how they are, what they really think, and what they do. The truth makes them look bad, and the lies make them look good. That's why they are always lying.”
“Bad people take minimal time to coincide their objectives, but good people take for ever to put faith in each others intents.”
“Bad people will teach money is everything but good people will teach love is everything.”
“Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.”
“Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.”
“Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.”
“Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.”
“Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.”
“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.”
“Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.”
“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”
“Bad promises are better broken than kept.”
Source: Great Speeches
“Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.”
“Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.”
Source: Bobby Jones on Golf
“Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.”
“Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.”
Source: Chance, love, and logic philosophical essays
“Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.”
“Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.”
“Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.”
“Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life.”