Bad Idea Quotes

“My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Zee said, grumpily, “Liebling, this is not a good idea.”
“Zee,” I told him, “I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.”
― Patricia Briggs, Frost Burned

“The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game

“Don't you ever get tired of reading?" she asked. "You could hardly be called good company! Don't you know that, with women, you're supposed to make conversation?" she added; her half smile was perhaps meant to be ironic, though to Amedeo, who at that moment would have paid anything rather than give up his novel, it seemed downright threatening.”
― Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves

“She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why suffer twice?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“Say "no" to corruption; it does not fit you! Say "no" to bad leadership; you don't fit there. Say "no" to immorality; it will only fake you! Be bold to say "no" if that is what will take your breakfast away; you will get a sweeter lunch pack for compensation sooner.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Whatever you're thinking, it's a bad idea.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Fate of Ten

“It’s easier to hold onto a bad idea if you never share it, and it’s harder to defend one if you let it out.”
― Victor LaValle, Big Machine

“What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.
Then they'd come home and take over Earth.
OK, not that.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant

“Most of my writing usually feels to me like a bad idea, which makes it hard for me to know which ideas feel bad because they have merit, and which ones feel bad because they don't”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“Any bad Ideas, needs a fool to implement it.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“This is a bad idea.'

Cassian winked. 'That should be written on the Night Court crest.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“I grab his hand as he moves to stand. 'Stay.'

'I shouldn't.' Two lines appear between his brows as he searches my eyes. 'People will talk.'

'When did I ever give you the impression that I give a fuck what people think?' I use his earlier words against him and sit up, curling my hand around the section of his neck that bears the relic. 'Stay with me, Xaden. don't make me beg.'

'We both know this is a bad idea.'

'Then it's out bad idea.'

His shoulders dip, and I know I've won. He's mine for the night.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“In the cinema and games that formed the basis of Prax's understanding of how people of violence interacted, the cocking of a gun was less a threat than a kind of punctuation mark. A security agent questioning someone might begin with threats and slaps, but when he cocked his gun, that meant it was time to take him seriously. It wasn't something Prax had considered any more carefully than which urinal to use when he wasn't the only one in the men's room or how to step on and off the transport tube. It was the untaught etiquette of received wisdom. You yelled, you threatened, you cocked your gun, and then people talked.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War

“In one Family to have two bad cops or one bad and one good cop are the world bad idea. Ever thought, in one family the people must show their child or children the rules to give them answers and the other to be left as a puzzle - So the question is can you Solve it?”
― Deyth Banger

“The only way to give a bad idea a real chance to publicly fail is to hear it and then use facts to eviscerate it.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“And now I want to kiss you, but I can't because you're on your own horse.' The corners of his lips turned down. 'This was a bad idea.'

I laughed.

'A really bad idea.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire