Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.
Bad men are full of repentance.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
I read all the time that people think I’m arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, ‘That image doesn’t fit you.’
Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from.
This life is a test, and we’re put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.
I had such a run of bad luck that you lose faith that good things are going to happen any more. I still don’t answer the door because I went through so long expecting it to be a bailiff.
What people don’t understand is joining a gang ain’t bad, it’s cool, it’s fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it’s cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family’s in the gang. We’re not just killing people every night, we’re just hanging out, having a good time.
High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I’ll take with me the rest of my life.
Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They’re moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Globalization doesn’t have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Any tool can be used for good or bad. It’s really the ethics of the artist using it.
You just have to keep the same mentality of trying to prove yourself every single day. But it’s a lot of easier when you have people telling you how bad you are than when people are telling you how good you are.
Without intellectual honesty, you can’t have a culture that’s willing to tolerate failure because people cling too much to an idea that likely will be bad or isn’t working and they feel like their reputation is tied up in it. They can’t admit failure.
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else’s story and the hero in your own, and I think very often, African-American characters are either one thing or the other. You shouldn’t have to be perfectly good or perfectly bad. You don’t even have to be magical.
I’m trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it’s unfair how everything that’s bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn’t match up.
My father was a bad boy, a rascal. That’s what him do for a living. He just go around and have a million and one children!
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent undermining – intentionally hindering a colleague’s success, reputation, or relationships.
Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you.
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
If you don’t want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved – bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.
Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.
You’ve got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
You may go through a lot of good times, you may go through a lot of bad times, you just have to try to prepare yourself as best as you can, and for me, that’s just sticking with my family.
I’m a nice guy – until you get on my bad side.
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge… stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands.
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
Sometimes, if you are nervous, it could actually turn out to be a manifestation of your exhaustion. The point is that any setback is bad, but if you see it from a perspective, you’ll recover.
I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.
Sometimes I’m in a bad mood, sometimes I’m in a good mood. It’s like everyone else.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
Heroism in a bad cause.
Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
I don’t know if I can relax. Relax, I can’t do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.
Bad choices make good stories.
Wherever I go with my life, even the good times and the bad parts, only two people are with me: God and my music.
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.
The ‘S’ is because my freaks realized they weren’t with a normal man but a Superman. That’s why they called me the ‘Big Bad Booty Daddy.’
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
If I’m in a bad mood, or if I’m uncomfortable, it’s probably what I’m wearing that’s making me feel that way.
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector’s item.
I feel naked without jewelry. If I’m having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
This is not a bad life.
If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
But when you truly get to know me, I’m a good guy. I’m not the bad boy people think I am.
Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
If I know you’re very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you’re going to be good or bad in other things.
It’s too bad that ‘Dragon Ball,’ which I drew for a very long time, has ended. Just kidding. I’m incredibly glad. Now I can just leisurely sit around!
Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.
Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that’s new enough that people aren’t comfortable with it at first.