Bad Things Quotes - Page 7

• I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.

  Philip Yancey

  Thinking, People, And Love

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Depression, Song, Baby

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.164, Faber & Faber

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• Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it.

  Dalai Lama

  Honest, Wealth, Environment

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• If the society that we're talking about is a society that starts wars all over the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic in itself, if that's the society we're talking about, then it's not a bad thing if hip-hop did degrade that society.

  KRS-One

  War, Talking, Hip Hop

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• You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can't wait for something crazy to f***ing happen to me. Just life. I want someone to f*** me over! Do you know what I mean?

  Kristen Stewart

  Crazy, Mean, Waiting

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• I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

  Stana Katic

  Eye, Grandmother, Names

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• I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Fall, Marine, Acting

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• Why bad things happen to good people

  Harold S. Kushner

  Erosion, Everything Happens For A Reason, People

  When Bad Things Happen to Good People ch. 1 (1981)

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• Sometimes offensive players get turned into defensive players, which sometimes isn't a bad thing, but for me I need a chance to play more offense.

  Martin St. Louis

  Player, Needs, Chance

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• To me, the quarterback position is about getting your team out of bad things and into good ones.

  Chad Pennington

  Team, Quarterback, Position

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• My grandma always said bad things don't last forever.

  Lamar Odom

  Grandma, Forever, Lasts

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• I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.

  Elton John

  Selfish, Years, Drug

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• Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

  Brian Eno

  Country, Research, England

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• Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mean, Emotional, Should Have

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• Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Crush, Years, People

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• And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things.

  Susan Patron

  Survival, Guarantees, World

  Susan Patron (2007). “The Higher Power of Lucky”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust and love that I’m very committed to. These guys would die for each other, and it’s very beautiful. But at the same time, you can’t keep that safety. Things have to go wrong, bad things have to happen.

  Joss Whedon

  Beautiful, Character, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 05, 2001.

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• If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Guy

  "On tour with Taylor Swift". Interview with Hoda Kotb, www.nbcnews.com. May 31, 2009.

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• We are made of memories and formed by experience. I keep wondering what kind of people we would be, and what kind of world this would be, if when bad things happened we could erase them, or somehow make them sweet.

  Sue Halpern

  Sweet, Memories, People

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• The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.

  Huineng

  Stars, Fall, Moon

  Huineng (1967). “The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”

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• One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out. Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else. Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.

  Adrian Hodges

  Fun, Genre Is, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I'm super-grateful.

  Aisha Tyler

  Grateful, Thinking, Want

  "Aisha Tyler Is a Woman Men Can't Help But Love". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. May 28, 2014.

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• I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.

  Malcolm Morley

  Past, Self, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.

  Mark Mulder

  Trying, Asking, Approach

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• One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.

  Matt Kemp

  Done, Fields, Happens

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