“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter
Source: Fairest
“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter
“Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.”
Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Quintana of Charyn
“As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Cassandra Clare book City of Glass
Variant: People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
Source: City of Glass
Larry the Cable Guy (1963) American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist
Morning Constitutions (2007)
Neal Shusterman book Unwind
Variant: One thing yo learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.
Source: Unwind