Quotes with badly

  • English is the easiest language to speak badly.
  • Phillipsburg was the name of one those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall.
  • The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.
  • In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant If you can’t learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Pat Caddell A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
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  • Aaron Allston Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Brad Grey Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.
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  • Ben Schwartz At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly. Then when I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Aeschylus Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • David Gemmell Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • George Bernard Shaw English is the easiest language to speak badly.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Horace He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • B. C. Forbes He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • George Allen How badly do you want it?
    George Allen
    American senator and politician (1952 - )
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  • Brigitte Bardot I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Alan Alda I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Benazir Bhutto I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
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    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Allan Carr I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • Cass Sunstein If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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