Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.
Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.
If you want to feel like your life isn't too bad, take a Greyhound bus, Aleah. We should all take Greyhound buses.
When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon.
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
Whether good or bad, it was I that did the damage, and the wisest rule in life, note the aftermath and how to manage.
Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!
Revenge is a bad policy if you gain nothing out of it, but under the same circumstances, forgiveness is even a worse one.
Because I’m not normal,” I said. “You say that as if it’s a bad thing, Percy. But you don’t realize how important you are.
You know how they say the path to hell is paved with good intentions? Well, maybe the path to heaven is paved with bad ones.
An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.
If you want to be able to recall everything and anything in detail, then you need to be strong enough to feel all bad memories as well.
Sergeant Colon was lost in admiration. He’d seen people bluff on a bad hand, but he’d never seen anyone bluff with no cards.
On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.
I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.
The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.
When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.
Selfishness is a bad habit. That’s why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others.
One bad habit people do way past the age they should be doing it is living. The youth of today, they’re so old.
I keep a list of our differences. The good news is there’s only one item. The bad news is that the one item reads: Everything.
The good news is my neighbor survived the fire. The bad news is I like my food cooked a little more thoroughly.
