Rotten Quotes - Page 3

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

Without work all life goes rotten.

I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.

Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

Life is a rotten lottery.

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

This world is rotten. The rotten should die.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten.