Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.
I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.
I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
It's very difficult to consistently hit good iron shots if you get off to a bad start. That's why I'm always paying attention to my setup and takeaway.
I'm not terribly athletic. And... there's a lot of things I'm not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I was really a pretty bad math student growing up.
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.
Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.
The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.
Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.
At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.
