The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That’s about all you can do.
When you’re in a bad situation, when you’re losing, every day is tough.
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
I’ve reached a point in life where it’s no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that’s good. If they don’t, that’s too bad.
I have Slavic fat pads that make me look like a chipmunk and arched predatory eyebrows. With that, you’re not going to get funny. That’s why I play so many bad guys.
To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can’t stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do ‘anything.’ If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
Whenever I’m stressed out or having a bad day, the one thing that gets me happy or back into like a good place of mind is being on the golf course. I love being out there, especially really early in the morning getting the first tee time out and just playing by myself. It’s so peaceful.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
With all of the bad things that are happening in the world right now, I think we need a message of togetherness and true unity. I believe that starts with personal reflection and then we can find kindness toward each other.
When you’ve seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what’s important.
I’ve learned that you simply can’t control those bad vibes.
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Everything I’ve learned, I’ve learned with the beatings I’ve gotten from all of the bad choices I made.
I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.
I am the greatest heel, which means the bad guy in the wrestling history.
We need to make sure we’re all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society.
I never said I was a ‘good girl.’ I’m not a bad girl.
Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man’s inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.
I’m a private person. People just see me as the bad boy, and if that’s how they want to perceive me, then so be it – but they don’t know who I am.
When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‘Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.’
Melancholy is no bad thing.
When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there’s always something beautiful that you can find.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Nothing can affect my voice, it’s so bad.
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
