If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.
Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they’d never happened.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
Too many people try to please their parents. My parents were Republicans, which is too bad, but they allowed me to be who I wanted to be.
I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more bitter. It is horrible in a way.
Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.
I didn't say you were a bad person. I just don't like being a foregone conclusion for the sole reason of having a vagina." - Abby Abernathy
And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.
I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.
Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
Now that I've experienced ageism, I don't regard it as a bad thing. It's been a transition to something more exciting and maybe edgier.
