Top 490 Poorly Quotes & Sayings

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

Baseball is a poorly run business.

Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

The greatest thing you can do for your competition - hire poorly.

I do sarcasm really poorly.

If you play poorly one day, forget it. If you play poorly the next time out, review your fundamentals of grip, stance, aim and ball position. Most mistakes are made before the club is swung. If you play poorly for a third time in a row, go see your professional.

If you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed.

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

It’s better to do one thing well than ten things poorly.

A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.

There's nothing worse than a poorly staged house.

The importance in what we're seeing in countries around the world is a poorly regulated and poorly functioning private sector using irrational and ineffective medications that result in the emergence of drug-resistance tuberculosis. What we've done is begun a program to rapidly improve infection control in places that are treating TB patients.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

I've seen the impact of poorly negotiated trade agreements on manufacturing in Maine.

Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11.

It's much harder to act poorly written material. It's much harder to memorize poorly written material.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

"If you're a Republican Party that's fairing poorly, sometimes you have to win ugly.

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.

Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.

What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media.

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

If we speak poorly about that which we do well... people will assume we perform poorly!

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Quite often governments are one way and the people are another. You can't judge the many by the actions of a few. What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media. All these places I go, people say that America is good and I'm like, "Well, thank you, I'm glad you can see it." And you know - we are good, we've just got work to do.

In my view there is a level of human knowledge that involves just getting it right aptly. This "animal" epistemic level is an inferior level in just the way of Diana's long shot in the dark while drunk. That shot is inferior in a certain respect if too poorly selected as a hunter's archery shot, even if not quite as poorly selected as would be a shot aimed at the moon. Even if Diana's too risky shot turns out to be apt by attaining success through sublime archery dexterity, it is still inferior in the particular respect of being so risky and hence so poorly selected.

Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.

I'm just poorly organized.

It sucks when you do poorly at your job.

Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

It's hard to trust people when your own friends seem to think poorly of you.

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

When you're playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That's when you confuse yourself.

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

Trump showed you can get elected by voters who think very poorly of you.

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

Liberal radio performs poorly because its format already dominates other markets. And it will continue to perform poorly until the day comes when the rest of the media is at least balanced, if not fair.

I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

You know, people come from cultures all around the world. Many of those cultures, you know, are not terribly successful. You can tell because you go to the countries and they're doing really poorly, and a lot of why they're doing poorly is because of the outlook, mind-set, and behavior of the people.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I can't stand things that are poorly made or shoddily conceived. I feel like I'm being insulted when something is poorly designed, poorly made. It's like whoever made that thing didn't respect the rest of us enough to do it well.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively.

Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.