Quotation Explorer - 'Badly'

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. - Oscar Wilde
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 to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. - Abraham Lincoln
More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I’ve memorized the best angles in the bathroom mirror from which to see how badly I’ve disintegrated. I truly do go from sixty to zero. - Kris Kidd
You won't understand where home is until you realize it is the only place your mind takes you back to when every journey ends badly. - Shannon L. Alder
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. - G.K. Chesterton
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. - Frank Zappa
English is the easiest language to speak badly.
Optimists think badly, but live well. - Marty Rubin
He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly. - George Carlin
Dan P. McAdams argues that children develop a narrative tone which influences their stories for the rest of their lives. Children gradually adopt an enduring assumption that everything will turn out well, or badly, depending on their childhood. - David Brooks
Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly. - Christopher Nutall
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. - C.S. Lewis
Train yourself by blessing those who treat you badly and you will take on the nature of God. - Sunday Adelaja
Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly.
One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil.
Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool, and stop oppressing others so badly. - Bhagat Kabir
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. - G.K. Chesterton
A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. - Johnny Rich
The Best Part Of Missing You Is, "I Recall Every Single Moment Spent With You."Bt The Worst Part Is,"I Miss You So Badly. - mr. sid
Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side.
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. - Margaret Cho
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. - Kurt Vonnegut
5 steps to happiness: Don't speak badly about yourself. Trust your instincts. Let go of what you can't control. Don't be afraid to say no. Don't be afraid to say yes. - Karen Salmansohn
We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams. - Bob Proctor
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly. - Paulo Coelho
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly. - Amelia E. Barr
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. - G.K. Chesterton
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. - Plutarch
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. - G. K. Chesterton
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I wanted her so badly I didn't even realize I lost myself in the process. Now, when I look in the mirror, I only see her... where is me? - Hubert Martin
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. - Brian Tracy
It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly. - Epictetus
Correction badly undertaken creates distance. - Kevin Thoman
I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page. - Ron Koertge
A good friend is someone who is there for me when i'm glad or sad...who I can laugh madly with or cry badly with. - Karen Salmansohn
EVERYTIMEA GIRL WISHESTOBE A BOY BADLY, IT'S A SIGNAL THAT OUT SOCIETY FAILED IN ITS DEEDS SOMEWHERE. - Ameya Agrawal
When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse the situation! - Mehmet Murat ildan
You can change anything in your life if you want to badly enough. Excuses are for losers! - Anonymous
too many left-wing student groups treat no one as badly as students of color or women who consider themselves to be classical liberals, libertarians, or conservatives, or who merely disagree with the actions of progressive protesters on campus. They’re seen as special kinds of traitors. - Conor Friedersdorf
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast. - Oscar Wilde
The problem was, she wanted to get loved so badly that she couldn't tell it wasn't love. - Himmilicious
Do not be bad because others treat you badly. - Lailah Gifty Akita
He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked. - Ann Brashares
There is one thing worse than making a thing wrong: doing badly a right thing. - Luigina Sgarro
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. - John Kenneth Galbraith
I hated you, said Laurent. "I hated you so badly I thought I’d choke on it. If my uncle hadn’t stopped me, I would have killed you. And then you saved my life, and every time I needed you, you were there, and I hated you for that, too. - CS Pacat
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. - Thomas H. Huxley
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. - Stephen Hawking
It is up to the individual to 'choose' their repertoire of the self. If they do not have access to the range of narratives and discourses for the production of the ethical self they may be held responsible for choosing badly, an irresponsible production of themselves - Bev Skeggs
I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them. - Mary Miller
People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton] - Don Draper from 'Mad Men'
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. - William Ralph Inge
The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly. - Theodore Roosevelt
Personally, have not seen so far even a single case of an ultra rich person who is not fallen in love badly with the money. - Anuj Somany
You're badly wounded.You're bleeding but not cut.You feel like dying but you're not.It’s a Love accident an emotional injury.You are not going to the hospital, aren't you?You don't need medicines and first aides, don't you?You just need to move on. Accept it, forgive and forget it. - Bradley B. Dalina
You can be treated badly. But you do not have to be bitter. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There once was a young man from Lyme Who couldn't get his limericks to rhyme When asked "Why not?" It was said that he thought They were probably too long and badly structured and not at all very funny. - Anonymous
Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell. - David Nicholls
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly. - Jorge Luis Borges
A badly written novel can always be shortened to a poem. - Gloria D. Gonsalves
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. - Bertrand Russell
Stop holding on to the broken pieces of that mirror even after you are bleeding so badly, I agree that the reflections you had imagined or saw once before were beautiful but sometimes holding on to them with a hope will just continue to hurt you even more and it will never get any better. - Akshay Vasu
People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's true at all. What's cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit suicide. - Tommy Tran
We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams." - - Bob Proctor
If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.
Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly. - Alain de Botton
I scared a little porcupineand caught a quill in my behind.It hurt so badly in my tail,but tugging on it made me yell.The porcupine was still around,so I complained. He simply frownedand said, "Stop whining! Look and seehow many quills are stuck on me! - Richelle E. Goodrich
Men would have been badly in trouble if their hands didn’t fit their dick. - M.F. Moonzajer
The real you, the inner you, loves and adores you; but you cut off that power when you think badly of yourself. - Sue Fitzmaurice
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. - C.S. Lewis
Don’t blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before. - M.F. Moonzajer
As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness! - Mehmet Murat ildan
BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables -- those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling. - Ambrose Bierce
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. - Bertrand Russell
With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again. - Tori Spelling
It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity. - M.F. Moonzajer
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. - Kurt Vonnegut
I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. - Jennifer Egan
Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs...in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just discovered she wanted very badly. - Jean Hanff Korelitz
I miss him so badly it hurts. - Suzanne Collins
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. - Françoise Sagan
There are things done so badly that one is tempted to think that there is an intention behind. - Luigina Sgarro
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