Quotes about Good or Bad

A man is not good or bad for one action. Votes: 4

I try to learn from every experience, good or bad. Votes: 4

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad. Votes: 4

I'm always in the theater seeing everything, good or bad. Votes: 4

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item. Votes: 4

I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad. Votes: 4

Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences - good or bad. Votes: 4

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad. Votes: 4

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad. Votes: 4

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. Votes: 4

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed. Votes: 4

I've been around so long and no matter if I've done good things or bad things, or my personal life has been good or bad, the fans have always stuck with me. Votes: 4

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics. Votes: 4

Intention, good or bad, is not enough. Votes: 3

Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad. Votes: 3

Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad. Votes: 3

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others. Votes: 3

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful. Votes: 3

Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes. Votes: 3

Fire isn’t good or bad. It just burns. Votes: 3

Never mind. There. For good or bad. It's done. Votes: 3

However good or bad a situation is, it will change. Votes: 3

What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve. Votes: 3

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. Votes: 3

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is. Votes: 3

There are only two types of cinema - good or bad. Votes: 3

Most people will change, weather it's for the good or bad Votes: 3

The universe doesn't know good or bad, only less or more. Votes: 3

Win or lose, good or bad, the experience will change you. Votes: 3

Nothing ever turns out the way we expect, good or bad. Votes: 3

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad. Votes: 3

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it. Votes: 3

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges. Votes: 3

Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence. Votes: 3

There are no good or bad people, humans are shaped by culture. Votes: 3

All experiences are welcomed and fully digested, not judged good or bad. Votes: 3

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments. Votes: 3

Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence. Votes: 3

There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook. Votes: 3

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between. Votes: 3

Only one spirit, either good or bad, can operate at a time. Votes: 3

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity. Votes: 3

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Votes: 3

I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us. Votes: 3

The truth is not good or bad, it is just the truth. Votes: 3

A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it. Votes: 3

Remember trust is portable. Wherever you go, it follows you: good or bad. Votes: 3

There is no good day or bad day, only good or bad actions. Votes: 3

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end. Votes: 3

Every thought, good or bad, becomes concrete; it materializes and becomes a reality. Votes: 3

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad? Votes: 3

Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand that. Votes: 3

Anything or everything can happen. You determine how good or bad they are Votes: 3

Habits, good or bad, can always be traced back to your own thinking. Votes: 3

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad. Votes: 3

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things. Votes: 3

Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings. Votes: 3

I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad. Votes: 3

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted. Votes: 3

Anything or everything can happen. You determine how good or bad they are Votes: 3

Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad. Votes: 3

Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say Votes: 3

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention. Votes: 3

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear. Votes: 3

Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all. Votes: 3

Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad. Votes: 3

I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad. Votes: 3

Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad. Votes: 3

I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it. Votes: 3

You don't know who's good or bad until you get to that crisis point. Votes: 3

Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness. Votes: 3

To execute a vision, good or bad, you've got to tune out the noise. Votes: 3

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad. Votes: 3

I'm fully aware that every time I do anything, good or bad, somebody's watching. Votes: 3

I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil. Votes: 3

Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done. Votes: 3

You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad. Votes: 3

People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter. Votes: 3

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so. Votes: 3

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. Votes: 3

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds. Votes: 3

You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad. Votes: 3

When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it. Votes: 3

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. Votes: 3

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig Votes: 3

Money doesn't change people, it only brings out the good or bad in their subconscious minds. Votes: 3

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools. Votes: 3

Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you. Votes: 3

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad. Votes: 3

I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad. Votes: 3

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad. Votes: 3

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. Votes: 3

I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue. Votes: 3

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context. Votes: 3

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. Votes: 3

A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously. Votes: 3

Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation Votes: 3

Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious. Votes: 3

I have always maintained that a man can be as good or bad depending upon his life-partner. Votes: 3

...intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over... Votes: 3

A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth Votes: 3

Whether it was good or bad, that was the day, and you have to let it go. Votes: 3

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin. Votes: 3

What people say about you, good or bad, is not nearly as important as what you are. Votes: 3

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it. Votes: 3

Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance. Votes: 3

The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing... Votes: 3

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war. Votes: 3

I look at scripts as good or bad. If it's bad, it better pay a lot of money. Votes: 3

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies. Votes: 3

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective. Votes: 3

Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it. Votes: 3

It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore. Votes: 3

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. Votes: 3

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them. Votes: 3

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad. Votes: 3

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. Votes: 3

In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad. Votes: 3

Past is treasure whether good or bad as both shapes our lives, and shapeless things have no identity...." Votes: 3

As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad. Votes: 3

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 3

Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences - be they good or bad. Votes: 3

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart. Votes: 3

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead. Votes: 3

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. Votes: 3

You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore. Votes: 3

I feel like I'm 11 again, with my drums. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. I'm just playing. Votes: 3

I know there is one kind of cinema that exists in the world, that is good or bad cinema. Votes: 3

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. Votes: 3

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment. Votes: 3

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad. Votes: 3

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. Votes: 3

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad. Votes: 3

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. Votes: 3

I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer. Votes: 3

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down. Votes: 3

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so. Votes: 3

Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys. Votes: 3

I know that I have a voice and can use it for good or bad. It's a gift from God. Votes: 3

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance. Votes: 3

I enjoy real people, down-to-earth people who are true to themselves and honest to your face - good or bad. Votes: 3

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad. Votes: 3

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective. Votes: 3

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. Votes: 3

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant. Votes: 3

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. Votes: 3

If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad. Votes: 3

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that. Votes: 3

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad. Votes: 3

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad. Votes: 3

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless. Votes: 3

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is. Votes: 3

But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents. Votes: 3

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad. Votes: 3

People are going to have their opinions. Whether it's good or bad, I don't really think about it either way. Votes: 3

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete. Votes: 3

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs. Votes: 3

In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad. Votes: 3

No matter how good or bad your state of living currently is, better chapters are destined to unfold in your life. Votes: 3

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history. Votes: 3

Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad. Votes: 3

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which. Votes: 3

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him. Votes: 3

Music can change lives. Whether you are having a good or bad day, the power of music can change one's mood. Votes: 3

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. Votes: 3

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad. Votes: 3

I have found that I really am different. There’s nobody like me. And not that it’s good or bad. Votes: 3

Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions. Votes: 3

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad. Votes: 3

There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers. Votes: 3

Integrity (in our model) is not about good or bad, or right or wrong, or what should or should not be. Votes: 3

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. Votes: 3

The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices. Votes: 3

I think that whenever a Jew has any kind of notoriety, good or bad, the Jews find it to be good. Votes: 3

I felt that my decisions, whether good or bad, would always be supported by my parents, because I was loved and respected. Votes: 3

I feel like whatever you've done in your career, good or bad, it's nothing but preparation for the big events to come. Votes: 3

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. Votes: 3

It's all about understanding that God is behind every performance, good or bad, and that trusting Him will always leave you satisfied. Votes: 3

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad. Votes: 3

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious. Votes: 3

I think love changes you over time, and whether you have good or bad experiences, you always grow and learn from them. Votes: 3

If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it. Votes: 3

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices. Votes: 3

J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday. Votes: 3

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make. Votes: 3

Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance. Votes: 3

Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad. Votes: 3

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way. Votes: 3

Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative. Votes: 3

There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed. Votes: 3

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. Votes: 3

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value. Votes: 3

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in. Votes: 3

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs. Votes: 3

Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad. Votes: 3

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters. Votes: 3

There are no black and white, good or bad characters in 'Game Of Thrones,' but Joffrey was an exception. Just pure evil. Votes: 3

Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another. Votes: 3

Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater? Votes: 3

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate. Votes: 3

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad. Votes: 3

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task. Votes: 3

You really are like him, your father.""I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad.""What does it matter? It's simply true. Votes: 3

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. Votes: 3

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad. Votes: 3

Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad. Votes: 3

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. Votes: 3

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Votes: 3

I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are. Votes: 3

Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I'm super-grateful. Votes: 3

I wouldn't trade anything no matter how good or bad or difficult. I'm the luckiest girl in the world as far as I'm concerned. Votes: 3

Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears. Votes: 3

Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment. Votes: 3

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad "” but it does not carry instructions on how to use it. Votes: 3

The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad. Votes: 3

Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on "Big Bang Theory" lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe Votes: 3

No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs. Votes: 3

Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction. Votes: 3

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all. Votes: 3

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street. Votes: 3

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time. Votes: 3

I'm the type of guy that I wear my heart on my sleeve. If I'm in a good or bad mood, then everybody knows it. Votes: 3

It is the nature of creation, no one cares how much you are good or bad, just get famous, they all will walk after you. Votes: 3

When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm. Votes: 3

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Votes: 3

Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . . Votes: 3

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines. Votes: 3

Never forget, organizational values start and end with you, the leader. Whether your example is good or bad, expect most employees to follow your lead. Votes: 3

Dancing with life is moving into the flow of our experiences - good or bad - with a feeling of harmony, trust, guidance and love. Votes: 3

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on. Votes: 3

Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. Votes: 3

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising. Votes: 3

We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve. Votes: 3

Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers. Votes: 3

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away. Votes: 3

Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced. Votes: 3

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on. Votes: 3

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad. Votes: 3

People aren't born good or bad. It's the way you live your life that matters and how many people you inspire and empower after you're gone. Votes: 3

It is important to acknowledge all your feelings and not beat yourself up for having them. Your feelings are not good or bad, they just are. Votes: 3

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad. Votes: 3

The great way is not difficult if you don't cling to good or bad. Just let go of your preferences; and everything will become perfectly clear. Votes: 3

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything. Votes: 3

What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you. Votes: 3

I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good life, warts and all. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren. Votes: 3

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad. Votes: 3

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. Votes: 3

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. Votes: 3

We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse. Votes: 3

There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are. Votes: 3

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad. Votes: 3

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does. Votes: 3

From my dad ... I think we have a similar sense of humor. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but I think he's funny! Votes: 3

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain. Votes: 3

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things. Votes: 3

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me. Votes: 3

I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good. Votes: 3

I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power. Votes: 3

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action. Votes: 3

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them. Votes: 3

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means. Votes: 3

In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them. Votes: 3

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people. Votes: 3

They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice. Votes: 3

Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment. Votes: 3

It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly. Votes: 3

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it. Votes: 3

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer. Votes: 3

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response. Votes: 3

Patriotism is (like) loving your family whether it is good or bad, while always striving to make it better. Nationalism simply insists 'Hey my family is the best'.. Votes: 3

If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, and if there aren't any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that. Votes: 3

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity. Votes: 3

It took me years to work out the difference between net and gross. In meetings I just used to say, 'Tell me if it's good or bad news. Votes: 3

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others. Votes: 3

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. Votes: 3

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now Votes: 3

Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous. Votes: 3

Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over. Votes: 3

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. Votes: 3

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad. Votes: 3

Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad. Votes: 3

After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertaken, however good or bad, long after you'd given up all hope, the reward. Votes: 3

When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage. Votes: 3

No matter how good or bad we may feel, no matter how up or down we may be, Christ loves us, accepts us, and thinks the world of us. Votes: 3

If God is your solid foundation, good or bad, you're going to be happy, you're going to be joyous if you're in him. And that's what we stand on. Votes: 3

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad. Votes: 3

Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is. Votes: 3

But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover. Votes: 3

Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights. Votes: 3

You can choose to be someone's Angel or choose to be a Troll, either way you will have to deal with the consequences of your actions, good or bad. Votes: 3

I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad; I just don't think of it. Votes: 3

The cool thing about passion is that no matter how good or bad a day you're having, tomorrow's going to be better because passion finds some way of doubling itself. Votes: 3

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him. Votes: 3

The story is about being loyal to the truth as a nation, that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their troops do in war, good or bad. Votes: 3

Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are. Votes: 3

War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons. Votes: 3

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad. Votes: 3

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top. Votes: 3

And we spend the rest of the evening getting very pissed and eating ice cream, as we always do when something good or bad happens to either one of us. Votes: 3

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past. Votes: 3

But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad. Votes: 3

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it. Votes: 3

If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad. Votes: 3

The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news. Votes: 3

Perception of one's life journey does not, always or necessarily, have to be judged as good or bad. It certainly demands that one take responsibility for all aspects of it, however. Votes: 3

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. Votes: 3

Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad. Votes: 3

Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation. Votes: 3

The moment you speak something out, you give birth to it. This is a spiritual principle, and it works whether what you are saying is good or bad, positive or negative Votes: 3

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do. Votes: 3

I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad. Votes: 3

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake. Votes: 3

"What did the pope say? I like the pope. I mean, was it good or bad?"Because if it's good, I like the pope. If it's bad, I don't like the pope. Votes: 3

He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies. Votes: 3

Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere. Votes: 3

There is nothing wrong with violence in itself. In any particular case, whether violence is good or bad depends on how it is used and the purpose for which it is used. Votes: 3

If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong. Votes: 3

May not be your peace in the mouth of the men; since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that. Votes: 3

There's no such thing as a good or bad culture, it's either a strong or weak culture. And a good culture for somebody else may not be a good culture for you. Votes: 3

We never know our good or bad as we loose our judgement living with them.worst part is we don't accept who we are & hence remain confused for the rest of our life. Votes: 3

There's no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs. There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in 'Jurassic Park' took human lives and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad. Votes: 3

What matters is how I feel about it, cause if I feel good or bad about it, then the audience will feel good or bad about it and that's just sorta the job. Votes: 3

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there. Votes: 3

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are. Votes: 3

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. Votes: 3

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. Votes: 3

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly. Votes: 3

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena. Votes: 3

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character. Votes: 3

Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation whatever is good or bad. And your definition determines your response. Votes: 3

I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain. Votes: 3

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast. Votes: 3

My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth. Votes: 3

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing. Votes: 3

If you have firm trust in God, the success that comes to you will always be that which is most useful for you whether it appears good or bad in your private judgment. Votes: 3

Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues. Votes: 3

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue. Votes: 3

[In my bio] is no drunk driving, there's no DUI's, there's no possession of cocaine, none of that stuff so you know, I don't know if that's good or bad. Everybody loves dirty laundry. Votes: 3

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Votes: 3

Emphasising what's in your control allows you to adopt an attitude of equanimity toward luck. You've done what you can, and from there you have to live with the results - good or bad Votes: 3

First, say to yourself, 'I'm totally independent of the good or bad opinions of others.' Second: 'I'm beneath no one.' Third: 'I'm fearless in the face of any and all challenges.' Votes: 3

I don't think anybody in the world is perfect. I don't think anybody is absolutely good or bad or stupid. Each one of us combines all those qualities in our daily lives, I think. Votes: 3

The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't. Votes: 3

I love crystals, the beauty of their forms and formation; liquids, dormant, distilling, sloshing! The fumes, the odors good or bad, the rainbow of colors; the gleaming vessels of every size, shape and purpose. Votes: 3

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same. Votes: 3

I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to make a complete human being, whether the guy is good or bad. Votes: 3

Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that. Votes: 3

It's not the weather that's bad or good, it's whether you have good or bad mood. It's cloudy and cold, I feel happy and bold, As the storm unfolds, I turn silver in gold! Votes: 3

The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't. Votes: 3

You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences - good or bad - and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf! Votes: 3

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded. Votes: 3

You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it. Votes: 3

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. Votes: 3

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them. Votes: 3

I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence of the fearful and sad Votes: 3

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad. Votes: 3

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character. Votes: 3

When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes. Votes: 3

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have. Votes: 3

What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment. Votes: 3

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man. Votes: 3

Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I. Votes: 3

In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside. Votes: 3

While non of us understands the Grand Design, we can commit to using all our experiences, good or bad, as the building blocks of a powerful and loving life. Then it is, indeed, all happening perfectly. Votes: 3

I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are. It kills girls inside when they think they're letting their mothers down. Votes: 3

You left me, ripped out my heart, and then came back acting like a robot, and you know what? We made it through. You and I, good or bad, belong together. We make each other whole. Votes: 3

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges. Votes: 3

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both. Votes: 3

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him. Votes: 3

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. Votes: 3

Sex may be a little more factual than love. You know whether it's good or bad. You know whether you liked it or not. You're not going to change your mind about it ten years later. Votes: 3

The way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result (good or bad) to what you have been committed to. Votes: 3

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence. Votes: 3

Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you. Votes: 3

Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves. Votes: 3

I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways. Votes: 3

That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach. Votes: 3

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine. Votes: 3

It doesn't matter whether your thoughts and feelings are good or bad, you are giving them out, and they will return to you as automatically and precisely as an echo returns the same words you send out. Votes: 3

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people. Votes: 3

We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash. Votes: 3

I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them. Votes: 3

I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level. Votes: 3

God has taught me that I can trust in Him. No matter what-whether things are good or bad-I know I can always trust in Him. And that has really allowed me to go All In for Him. Votes: 3

I think it is really a personal journey of purification, rather than whether something external is going to be good or bad. Anything external will always live in that polarity - a combination of good and bad. Votes: 3

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum. Votes: 3

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful. Votes: 3

When you face challenges, ask yourself what is the lesson here? Focus on the lesson and don't complain about the test. Everything happens for a reason. Every person you meet, may teach you something - good or bad. Votes: 3

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum. Votes: 3

On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space. Votes: 3

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue? Votes: 3

You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste. Votes: 3

If you are willing to experience anything directly and immediately, whether good or bad, joyous or hateful, you will recognize that what you are running from does not exist, and what you are running toward is already here. Votes: 3

I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. Votes: 3

It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis. Votes: 3

The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love Votes: 3

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others. Votes: 3

In my view, if you have good or bad technique, it doesn't matter. But you will survive if you can adjust your game at international level, you are mentally strong, you know your strengths and how to score runs. Votes: 3

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. Votes: 3

The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past. Is that good or bad? Will that make for better marriages or worse marriages? I don't know. Votes: 3

Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact - good or bad. And I think that's why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we're doing is making an impact. Votes: 3

I'm the competitor, I'm the one who has to wear the brunt of that being a good or bad score. And I'm not too worried about it. I don't know why so many are to be honest with you. Votes: 3

This World is not our home, so we don't have to worry about whether it's good or bad. The BETTER it is, the HARDER it is to leave it. The BADDER it is, the EASIER it is to leave it! Votes: 3

A country as such does not be good or bad, only the people are good or bad, that too change by generations and this scenario is same to any nations. what India really have is a rich legacy.. nothing else Votes: 3

It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style. Votes: 3

One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. "Once and only once" is the Extreme Programming phrase. Votes: 3

That's the nice thing about doing stand-up. There's no development, you just go out there and get an immediate response as to whether something is good or bad. Getting a laugh is the best measure of how well you're doing. Votes: 3

I, as a person, make anything a narrative experience because I experience things linearly. The biggest question for me, is will I go through a transformation? Will I be bored or not? Is it a good or bad narrative experience? Votes: 3

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives. Votes: 3

The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation. Votes: 3

Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs. Votes: 3

Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried in grief if that is what it takes to restore the imbalance you have wrought unto the world. Votes: 3

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work. Votes: 3

The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing. Votes: 3

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value. Votes: 3

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing. Votes: 3

Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day—that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond. Votes: 3

How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live. Votes: 3

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise. Votes: 3

As a singer and songwriter, I have great admiration for many of the budding stars who come to try their hand at performing and can relate to the hopes and aspirations of all the contestants, no matter how good or bad. Votes: 3

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce. Votes: 3

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful. Votes: 3

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it. Votes: 3

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream. Votes: 3

I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad. Votes: 3

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done. Votes: 3

Whenever I spoke with anybody who said they did not have a problem in the military it was because their commander treated them well. Every single time it was about the commander as to whether they had a good or bad experience. Votes: 3

I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie. And as I worked, I learned what you can do in fiction that you can't do in movies, and vice-versa. Votes: 3

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere. Votes: 3

Technology is usually fairly neutral. It's like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone's home. The hammer doesn't care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad. Votes: 3

That thing that Hamlet says - "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so". Not quite true if you are stuck under a grand piano, not quite true for genocide, but surely it must be true about love? Votes: 3

Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs. Votes: 3

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad. Votes: 3

All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same. Votes: 3

I actually don't have...opinions. I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society. I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things but I don't view those effects as good or bad. Votes: 3

For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large. Votes: 3

Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears. These trends come unexpectedly, unpredictably, and they have to be weathered with temperance, poise, and patience- good or bad. Votes: 3

Of course you can't stop. It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion-good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel. Votes: 3

You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can't trade them in. You can't lie to them. You can't run two at once, substituting back and forth. "Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. Votes: 3

When you understand spiritual law, then you realize that everything you give, good or bad, will in fact come back to you tenfold and that's just the way it is. You give someone flowers and the person you are ultimately giving to is yourself. Votes: 3

Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it. Votes: 3

Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication. Votes: 3

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. Votes: 3

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me. Votes: 3

You can have a similar experience in your own life. You can change, even if you consider yourself a "night person"...Almost any habit-good or bad-can be set in about twenty-one days. With firm resolve, we can make the needed changes in our lives. Votes: 3

Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game. Votes: 3

Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind. Votes: 3

England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music... Votes: 3

I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep. Votes: 3

It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation. Votes: 3

To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a condition or event is not either good or bad but is, rather, both good and bad, not sequentially, but simultaneously. Votes: 3

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on. Votes: 3

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad. Votes: 3

I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously. Votes: 3

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time. Votes: 3

Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in; Free from all meaning whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad. Votes: 3

There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is good or bad. The point of no return was passed long ago, before anyone knew it was happening. Votes: 3

I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a movie whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them I thought it was pretty good company to keep. Votes: 3

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. Votes: 3

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything. Votes: 3

I've tried over the years all kinds of ways of going about writing and even just thinking about the idea of writing. There was a time when I decided to try to write a song each day. Whether it was good or bad wasn't important. Votes: 3

I believe your personality is formed at a very early age. Fame can magnify that personality, for good or bad, but it can't change it. So when people say to me, 'Don't change,' I'm thinking, To what? To who? Who else would I be? Votes: 3

I think people need to laugh everyday. Whether the economy is good or bad, I think the most important thing is to laugh and to feel positive, if you are laughing at something positive. But if you are laughing at mean jokes then it's a wash. Votes: 3

There are good and bad critics like good or bad artists. A good critic says why they didn't like it. A bad critic gives it away that they don't like you as a person. I quite like that as well, because it means that I've won. Votes: 3

If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it's a good or bad thing. Votes: 3

Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book. Votes: 3

'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book. Votes: 3

Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure. Through music, I've healed all the wounds I've had and celebrated all the good things in life. Through music, I turn things, good or bad, into energy. Votes: 3

To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather. Votes: 3

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why. Votes: 3

I think because I've been working in front of audiences for so many years, I'm able to take in the input, good or bad, and just say, 'This is the part I agree with that you're saying, and these are the parts I don't agree with.' Votes: 3

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes. Votes: 3

People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart.” J. Krishnamurti. “The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices. Votes: 3

Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was the first thing I did when my father died in 1984. This ritual allowed me a moment to take in the enormity of what had happened. Votes: 3

All the shows are immediately on the Internet, on Instagram, on Twitter, it's huge. Everything is live now, and for fashion, it's very important. It's not that it's good or bad, it's just like that and it's not going to change so we have to adapt to it. Votes: 3

You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that's totally artificial, to an imitation of life. But that imitation of life that you see on the screen can affect you almost as if it was real. Votes: 3

Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you. Votes: 3

I wouldn't change any part of my life that I've lived up until now. I kind of believe in fate a little bit and I believe that whether it be good or bad, everything is happening for a reason regardless of how good or how terrible it is. Votes: 3

You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your emotions; discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong. You select the colors of your acts; cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big. Votes: 3

I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad. Votes: 3

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?' Votes: 3

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that. Votes: 3

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. Votes: 3

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. Votes: 3

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things. Votes: 3

I want to know about my mom. And other stuff. I want to know the whole story, good or bad." "Me, too," said Gazzy. "I want to find my parents so I can tell'm what total scuzzes they are. Like, "˜Hi, mom and dad, you're such scum! Votes: 3

A lot of people preach that, if we put guns in the hands of good people, that will outweigh the guns in the hands of bad people, but what we fail to look at is the mental stability of these people, no matter how good or bad they are. Votes: 3

Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming out now about people's relationships with books. Like anything else, these can be good or bad. The genre doesn't make it good or bad, it's the execution. Votes: 3

I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it. That's just life. But something I've done I've regretted is probably picking on my siblings growing up, because you appreciate them so much more as you grow older. Votes: 3

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then. Votes: 3

With stillness comes the benediction of peace”. “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it. Votes: 3

Nobody is all good or all bad. Votes: 2

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad. Votes: 2

There was never a good war, or a bad peace. Votes: 2

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good. Votes: 2

I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy. Votes: 2

Just because one brother is good and one brother is bad in the same family, we cannot say that the rest of the family is bad or good. Votes: 2

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad. Votes: 2