Top 1200 Behaving Badly Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

I'm always trying to play pranks on people and doing silliness, singing extremely badly and extremely loudly on set.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

When someone is wearing a dress that makes her look fat, don't say 'That's a great dress.' It always comes off badly.

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!

You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you won’t get there.

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.

I love my home, spend as much time in London as I can, and try wherever possible to avoid travelling for work. Sometimes I think I'm really badly equipped to be an actress.

We've actually played badly, and people are saying, 'Ah, we're so proud.' Is it just because we're the women's team? If that was the men, you wouldn't be saying that.

I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather than reality. On paper one can understand Gulliver, or Kafka, or Dante. But let a man go about behaving as if he were a giant or a midget, or caught in a cosmic plot directed at himself, or in heaven or hell, and we feel horror - we want to disavow him to proclaim him as far removed as possible from ourselves.

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible

I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.

My father wanted a boy badly and didn't get one, so I was happy to be the surrogate boy. I was very strong, always doing manual labour.

I am a mother. Whether it is Alia or Shaheen, at any point in time, if they are suffering, I am the one who gets affected badly.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

I've been called pizza face and others said my skin was full of craters - it's just so horrible when people pin point something that you feel so badly about.

If I win playing badly, I will not go home happy and I will never tell the players that the result was worth it.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

Ghosts of Marriages Past can haunt many aspects of a new relationship - your expectations of what a man should do, how you behave in conflict, your ideas of how commitment should look - they can even make your new man look untrustworthy when he's really behaving normally.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

There are no bad people, only badly loved people.

The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

Every time we judge our brother in our hearts or worse when we speak badly of them with others, we are murdering Christians.

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

If 10 out of 10 news articles about Jordi Alba are negative, it's normal that people think badly.

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.

Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; 'The Grapes of Wrath' has turned into 'Nickel and Dimed.'

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.

It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched.

You can have everything you want as long as you don't want it badly enough.

The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough . . .

There were times when deep down inside I wanted to win so badly I could actually will it to happen. I think most of my career has been based on desire.