- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad Quotes
Straight talk about the bad stretches.
These quotes cover a pitcher accepting that pain eventually comes with the job, a squad's uneasy feelings over uneven pay, and a nod to how poor choices tend to drive horror-film plots. For the flip side of tough moments, see Good.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Drunks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no interest in bailing out anybody, quite frankly, and I think banks have to suffer every dollar of loss if they make a bad loan.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
- Good Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
- Programming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020