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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.

Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.

Quotes by Ben Bernanke

Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans.

Quotes by Ben Bernanke

Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.

Quotes by Ben Bernanke

The nice thing about 'Farscape' is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.

Quotes by Ben Browder

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

Quotes by Belinda Carlisle

I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.

Quotes by Beck

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.

Quotes by Beck

It's lucky I haven't been in a bad tackle. I could be prepared, but if my body gets wrenched in the wrong way, I can't help that.

Quotes by Becky Sauerbrunn

I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live day by day and see what happens.

Quotes by Behati Prinsloo

When I first started to learn to run the ropes, that was really painful for me: it's just cable wire wrapped in tape. It bruised my ribs so bad, it hurt to be hugged; it hurt to lay down.

Quotes by Bayley

This might sound bad, but I really want to work with Eva Marie, just because it seems like that's what people want.

Quotes by Bayley

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

Quotes by Baz Luhrmann

Growing up, I wanted straight hair so bad, like Justin Bieber.

Quotes by Bazzi

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology...

Quotes by Beau Willimon

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

Quotes by Beau Willimon

Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and looks for an account registered to that email address. When he finds one, he clicks the 'forgot my...

Quotes by Barton Gellman

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

Quotes by Barun Sobti

The working standards on television in our country are really bad. The sad part is that many actors take this deal because it gets them money and recognition.

Quotes by Barun Sobti

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about pitching through injury?
Yes. One quote is blunt about it: "Sooner or later the arm goes bad." It's a frank look at the physical toll of a long pitching career, going on to note that sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain. For more honest reflections on tough experiences, see Feel quotes.
Does this page include a quote about the spitball in baseball?
Yes - one quote admits, "I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad." It's a candid, self-aware confession about bending the rules under pressure.
Is there a quote about salary fairness on a sports team?
Yes. One quote argues it would be bad for the squad if one player had a much higher salary than the rest - a comment on how pay gaps can affect team unity. For more on group dynamics and everyday life, browse Life quotes.
Does this collection touch on horror movies?
Yes - one quote notes: "Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films." It's a neat summary of what usually drives the plot in that genre. See Good quotes for more sharp observations like this.
What does "bad" mean across these quotes?
It covers a lot of ground here - a pitching arm wearing down, bending the rules under pressure, salary fairness on a team, and the bad luck that drives horror movie plots. For more quotes on recurring, everyday themes, check out Always quotes.

What links them is a plainspoken acceptance that bad outcomes happen, rather than dramatic complaint. If you're after emotional reactions to hard times, try Feel or general Life.