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A man is not good or bad for one action.
Thomas Fuller

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Evil, Deep, Self

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.
Peter Steele

Poetry, Sing, Rap

Bad literature is a form of treason.
Joseph Brodsky

Literature, Treason

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.
Temple Grandin

Parenting, Emotional, Brain

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
Wangari Maathai

Corruption, Become, Issues

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings

God, Live, Long

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
Roger Ebert

Good, Long, Enough

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett

Knowledge, Ignorance, Dangerous

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
Doug Coupland

Time, Good, Feeling

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
Walter Annenberg

Character, Greedy, Mark

People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head.
David Arquette

Through, Divorce, Hurts

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Don Herold

Good, Person, Feels

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Barbra Streisand

Good, Strength, Ego

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
Joseph Heller

Good, Simple, Destiny

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Franklin P. Adams

Good, Nothing, Old

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Mason Cooley

Friendship, Faith, Loyalty

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
Rush Limbaugh

Thought, Taxation, Jefferson

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.
Alanis Morissette

Great, Anger, Happen

Everybody has a bad hair day, but us girls still like to be told we look nice even if we don't feel like we do.
Cat Deeley

Nice, Hair, Everybody

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
Kin Hubbard

Someone, Single, Once

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.
Chris Rock

Live, Getting, While

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Sophocles

Time, Alone, Single

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
Bo Bennett

Acting, Deceive, Worse

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
Anton Chekhov

Good, God, Successful

I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?
Louis C. K.

Feeling, Times, Might

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.
Amy Grant

Good, Best, Made

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.
Chili Davis

Good, Society, Long

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Fred Brooks

Good, Experience, Judgment

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham

Good, Through, Old

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