Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. - Saint Teresa Of Avila The world falling apart isn't an excuse to take up bad habits.... --Zoey Redbird, Hunted , p. 216. - P C Cast Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. - Robert Badenpowell Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things. - Friedrich Nietzsche The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he...

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. - Leo Aikman The Fourth was perfect. She'd make a ceremony, an event, of this. She had a bad habit of never giving ceremony its due. But sometimes life demanded ceremony. Sometimes you owed that to yourself. - Ellen Airgood It is a bad habit to shout it from the rooftops when one challenges a person. Not everyone benefits from attracting attention. - Alexandre Dumas It was a bad habit of hers ... looking for safety in places where there wasn't any. - Lisa Kleypas Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. - Saint Teresa Of Avila The world falling apart isn't an excuse to take up bad habits.... --Zoey Redbird, Hunted , p. 216. - P C Cast In my ten years of teaching I've noticed that teachers tend to have a bad habit of talking to themselves. I hypothesize that this is because we talk for a living, and we feel safe speaking our feelings aloud. Or it could be that most of us, especially the high school teacher vari...

I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means. - Darynda Jones As Stephanie and Lula were going after the bad guys, Lula was making preparations from the trunk of her Firebird. Stephanie looked inside and stopped breathing for a beat. "That's a rocket launcher!" "Yep," Lula said. "It's a big boy. I got it at a yard sale in the projects. - Janet Evanovich Why do you gotta be going somewhere? Seems like it should be enough that we had nachos. And we got meaningful jobs. We catch bad guys. If it wasn't for us, there'd be vampires and all kinds of shit running around loose. - Janet Evanovich Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there. - Jennifer Aniston Tad socked him. Hard. Twice. Someday the bad guys would realize monologues were a bad thing. - Vivian Arend Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, th...

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 In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks. - Gijs De Vries

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. - Francis Bacon How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass Everyone does this occasionally, and you shouldn't feel too upset about it unless it happens quite often, such as three times a day, in which case you must simply get used to it. Remember, other people like you as well or better for it, because it makes them feel so superior; so you've spread a little sunshine. And at the very least, you've served as a bad example. - Peg Bracken Everyone in life has a purpose, even if it's to serve as a bad example - Carroll Bryant I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example. - Elvis Presley There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets ...

People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver. - George Carlin You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride." "I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. - F Scott Fitzgerald Well, if someone is a bad driver and all the other drivers around them are good drivers, then they are safe because all the good drivers will dodge the bad driver so that there is no car crash. But if there is another bad driver, then there...

Bad days, good days, 'I'll cut you if you look at me the wrong way' days. I'll take them all. - Ilona Andrews On a good day, the animosity levels between us were usually at CODE RED. Bad days they were at CODE I'M GOING TO KILL YOU. - Jennifer L Armentrout He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away. - Melina Marchetta Buddha, much like everyone else has good and bad days. - Todd Barry There are good days and there are bad days, and I've had my share of both. - Charlie Bell You have good days and bad days. - Usain Bolt People have good and bad days. - Anna Chlumsky While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing. - Lindsay Davenport You are going to have bad days and have good days. - Lou Ferrigno She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its...

You don't get it, do you? This isn't 'good cop, bad cop.' This is fag and New Yorker. You're in a lot of trouble. - Shane Black Prisoner: I get it, good cop, bad cop, eh? Vimes: If you like, but we're a bit short-staffed today, so if I give you a cigarette, would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth? - Terry Pratchett I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth? - Terry Pratchett ...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go. - Carl Hiaasen (from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) In the Old Curiosity Shop I discovered that in the character of Dick Swiveller...

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. - Karen Armstrong An unhappily married woman is necessarily a bad cook. - Ann Marie Macdonald I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer. - Bob Monkhouse

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. - Augustine Of Hippo I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company. - Gaston Bachelard Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. - Booker T Washington Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one...

Todd? Are you still there?" "Yeah. I'm just trying to think of a good reason to continue our friendship." I grinned. "Jealousy is so unattractive Todd." "It would help if you could tell me one thing that's wrong. One flaw. Bad breath? Warts? Some condition that requires anti fungal spray?" "Would chest hair be a flaw?" "Oh, yeah." Todd sounded relieved." I can't stand a chest rug. You can't see the chest cut. - Lisa Kleypas Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter. - Matthew Ashford Do unsavory armpits and bad breath make you angry? - Marcus Aurelius Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. Peop...

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. - Alain De Botton What I've learnt - to my cost - on several occasions in my life, is that people will put up with all manner of bad behaviour so long as you're giving them what they want. They'll laugh and get into it and enjoy the anecdotes and the craziness and the mayhem as long as you're going your job well, but the minute you're not, you're fucked. They'll wipe their hands of you without a second glance. - Russell Brand And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when there is wrongdoing, but if you punish you're only punishing yourself. And what's the point of that? - Alexander Mccall Smith I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequal...

If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs. - Ralph Caplan A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.' - Tommy Cooper I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. - David Eddings I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career. - Rupert Everett Just about every player on tour has a bad back. It's just one of those games that does mess you up a little bit. You've got to keep looking after it. - Retief Goosen I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment. - Don Henley An octopus h...

I think that's his point," April said. "Not dumb, maybe. Just naive. I mean we come from a cynical age. Suspicious of everything. Maybe thats the advantage we have." "Yeah our bad attitudes versus their swords and axes and giant wolves," Christopher said darkly. - Katherine Applegate Bad attitudes will ruin your team. - Terry Bradshaw

If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. - Frank Abagnale It's not as bad as it sounds. - Mark Twain There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled. - Mark Twain For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words. - J R R Tolkien I've been cheered by thousands, booed by thousands, but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before y...

I am bad at asking for help. When you ask a human being for help, there is a chance they will say later, Remember when you asked for help? Can I have five dollars? That goes for medicine, too. I don't like asking help from pills in a bottle. I don't want to be woken up at night by a tab of aspirin asking to borrow five dollars. - Marie Helene Bertino I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful. - Kurt Vonnegut Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness. -...