Bad Ruler Quotes

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain. ~ Park Chan-wook

Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be. ~ Laurence Yep

I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs. ~ Justin Townes Earle

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business. ~ Steven Pinker

I really do know what I want with my life. I think that keeps me from making bad decisions and spending time doing stuff I don't enjoy. ~ Tove Styrke

Never feel bad for being unsuccessful because then you're only two letters away from being SUCCESSFUL… ~ Devansh Shekhar Shukla

Personal growth might not be so bad after all, I decided. ~ Patrick Lencioni

It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail. ~ Neville Chamberlain

All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect Regularity in the bodily figure, caused perhaps (if not congenital) by some collision in a crowd; by neglect to take exercise, or by taking too much of it; or even by a sudden change of temperature, resulting in a shrinkage or expansion in some too susceptible part of the frame. Therefore, concluded that illustrious Philosopher, neither good conduct nor bad conduct is a fit subject, in any sober estimation, for either praise or blame. For why should you praise, for example, the integrity of a Square who faithfully defends the interests of his client, when you ought in reality rather to admire the exact precision of his right angles? Or again, why blame a lying, thievish Isosceles when you ought rather to deplore the incurable inequality of his sides?

Theoretically, this doctrine is unquestionable; but it has practical drawbacks. In dealing with an Isosceles, if a rascal pleads that he cannot help stealing because of his unevenness, you reply that for that very reason, because he cannot help being a nuisance to his neighbours, you, the Magistrate, cannot help sentencing him to be consumed - and there's an end of the matter. But in little domestic difficulties, where the penalty of consumption, or death, is out of the question, this theory of Configuration sometimes comes in awkwardly; and I must confess that occasionally when one o ~ Edwin A. Abbott

This is a tough business. The cops, the army…," he said, and he appeared to be struggling for words. "Put a uniform on somebody, tell 'em you got to kill this other guy because he's the bad guy, you got to kill him - and then anybody can pull the trigger. But in this business, sometimes you got to kill people who maybe they're your friends." He stopped and shrugged, as if he were taking a moment to think about this himself. "That's the way it is in this business. Sometimes maybe it's even people you love and you got to do it. That's just the way it is," he repeated, "in this business. ~ Edward Falco

Being a believer may be, if you like, as bad as being drunk; ~ G.K. Chesterton

I mean, I always sort of thought you were gay," Colin acknowledged. "I might be gay if I had a better-looking best friend," said Hassan. "And I might be gay if I could locate your penis under the fat rolls." "Bitch, I could gain five hundred pounds and you could still see Thunderstick hanging to my knees." Colin smiled. "She's a lucky girl." "Too bad she'll never know just how lucky unless we get married. ~ John Green

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that. ~ Ambrose Bierce

But love isn't rational. it's a fucking mess, that's what love is. You can't control the way you feel. Love was a different entity altogether. It picked and chose what it wanted. It disregarded logic. Hell, it shat on logic and then it buried away the pain and embraced the heart with feelings so euphoric you'd forget all the bad just to feel it, even for a minute. ~ R.J. Lewis

Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present. ~ Barbara Barrington Jones

Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country. ~ Nicolas Sarkozy

While the newspaper press of America is in, or near, its present abject state, high moral improvement in that country is hopeless. Year by year, it must and will go back; year by year, the tone of public feeling must sink lower down; year by year, the Congress and the Senate must become of less account before all decent men; and year by year, the memory of the Great Fathers of the Revolution must be outraged more and more, in the bad life of their degenerate child. ~ Charles Dickens

When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today. ~ Jimmy Rushing

Regardless of what level the actor's at, you always learn something. And you can learn something from bad actors as well, who I've also worked with in the past. ~ Reece Thompson

I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else. ~ Luise Rainer

The fact that my dad was never around gave me a lot of determination. It really set this fire full of fuel, so to speak. It didn't matter what anybody was telling me, how many times I got rejected, because it was never as bad as being rejected by your own father. ~ DJ Ashba

while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while it is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one. I ~ Stephen King

The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing; we were entirely among ourselves. A ~ Elie Wiesel

It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an examination of the ideas as they come pouring in -at the very gateway, as it were. Looked at in isolation, a thought may seem very trivial or very fantastic; but it may be made important by another thought that comes after it, and in conjunction with other thoughts that may seem equally absurd, it may serve to form a most effective link. Reason cannot form any opinion on all this unless it retains the thought long enough to look at it in connection with the others. On the other hand, where there is a creative mind, Reason -so it seems to me- relaxes its watch upon the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it look them through and examine them in a mass. ~ Friedrich Schiller

You are worse than a corrupt politician if you don't vote, because tomorrow. You will be the first to complain about bad service delivery and how bad the country is being run by bad leaders and criminals. ~ De Philosopher DJ Kyos

Regret is bringing the bad past to a good present. And nobody wants a bad present ~ Zion Phoenix

It is not rational when you try to ignore a person because of the one bad traits over hundred good elements ~ Bhavik Sarkhedi

It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights. ~ Helena Bonham Carter

It is the attention we give to bad situations that stops us from getting out of them. ~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

If it makes you feel any better, you're not as bad as Keith. He was here earlier today and was so nervous, he literally kept looking over his shoulder." Lee paused thoughtfully. "I think it might have been because Adrian kept laughing like a mad scientist at those old black-and-white movies he was watching. ~ Richelle Mead

What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

Good medicine always tastes bad. ~ Ron Hall

It's huge," she says flatly.
"On what fucking planet is that a bad thing? ~ Maya St. James

Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners. ~ Margaret Millar

But death is not always a bad outcome, you know, and a quick death can be better than a slow one. ~ Henry Marsh

As soon as something really bad happens, I guarantee you Congress will act. I absolutely guarantee you Congress will act. But the question is, should we wait for that? ~ Tim Kaine

It is better to have a bad method than to have none. ~ Charles De Gaulle