Poorly Quotes

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves, but all of their teammates, every NFL player in the league, and everyone associated with the NFL.

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

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

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

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.