Badly Quotations | Page 5

We hope to identify these mysterious compounds -- compare Venus to Earth and Mars to see how Venus went so badly wrong.

We did our job, but when a team is doing badly it's usually because they are breaking down offensively. We were just there at the right time.

It always takes a little time to adjust and get something going. We didn't play badly and give up chances and that's fine, but offensively we didn't have anything going.

It always goes badly for Russia. It's bad when we don't have money and bad when we do.

I take full responsibility for my actions. I also accept that there are various personal issues that I need to address and have started taking the difficult, yet necessary, steps to resolve them. I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co- workers, business associates and others.

I have to say that most of the deals I have done initially were badly received, and after a while, people realised that maybe I was not that wrong.

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

Jake was tremendously determined to play well because he felt badly about the last time. Not just him, but me and everybody else on the offense felt like we kind of gave this one away the last time.

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.