Quotes of: Bad-example Keyword

Change always sounds bad <...> we make it worse by resisting it. Sometimes the only thing worth pursuing is change. How else would we learn anything?

Kiss of Fire

Sometimes we need to feel bad to know what it's like to feel good...

The Real Verdict: My Quest for the Freedom I Never Had

The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.

The Restful Mind

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

The Secret Life of Prince Charming

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Siddhartha

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.

Summer Island

Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity and malice were so tangled and so dense.

Mother's Milk

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

The Monk

All habits are bad habits. (...) Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

Manalive

I have a copy of you in my brain; when you make me angry I do very bad things to you.

A moment with God ; Poetry

The work, the pride in your work, the worth of the work itself...all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they really were when the pain got bad enough.

Misery

She was a pretty good lover. Too bad she wasn’t pretty and good.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIM--that's bad

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

Nervous Conditions

In that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

Noggin

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

Noggin

Oh, well, that's not bad, I suppose. I mean, I'd prefer devastatingly sophisticated - but almost endearing is more than I could have hoped for under the circumstances.

The Nearly-Weds

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science