The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat. , Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur. ]
You have total freedom. It's like, if you do a solo record, there are no restrictions and you can do whatever you want, good or bad. You can have these passing fancies where you go in to the studio one day and you want to do something like what you did on the way in. That's dangerous. You have to have some sort of focus.
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.
President Bush called Arnold to congratulate him today, and after he got off the phone, Arnold said, 'I thought my English was bad. '
It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would control actions. That which increases the sum of human happiness is moral; and that which diminishes the sum of human happiness is immoral. . . . Blind, unreasoning obedience is the enemy of morality.
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.
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.
For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
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.
It's not just about me. It's about all of us accepting one another. We're all different. It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing.
There will always be good and bad in every community.
I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.
I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.
Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.
You know, sometimes you have to remember the bad things so that you can learn from them.
When I first started out, I was a bad actor.