#bad

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. ↗

— Alan Alda

#bad #because #could #few #few people

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#bad #combination #conjure #could #dangerous

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen. ↗

— Alan Alda

#assumed #badly #because #box #corner

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#began #endowment #few #had #i

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#all night #awake #bad #bed #books

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#beat #hat #him #his #i

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#good #good and bad #more #perfect #susceptible

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. ↗

— Steve Allen

#get #helps #humor #over #social

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. ↗

— Karen Allen

#anything #bad #been #crazy #does

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. ↗

— Woody Allen

#bad people #better #divided #enjoy #good