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• None love the messenger who brings bad news.

  Sophocles

  Love, News, Messengers

  Sophocles (2012). “Antigone”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

  Sophocles

  Gossip, News, Likes

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.31, University of Chicago Press

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• The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands.  The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.

  Anthony Holden

  Hands, Two, Cards

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• If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

  Norman Cousins

  News, May, Claims

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• As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news for the ticket. Think of Spiro Agnew's foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagleton's medical history; the real estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro's husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin's reading list.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Husband, Real, Reading

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• Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.

  John C. Maxwell

  News, Information, Candid

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• Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Heart, School

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• The bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and a Goodyear blimp.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Yards, Rottweilers

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• Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Disappointment, Irritation

  "When Things Fall Apart". Book by Pema Chödrön, December 24, 1996.

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• It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children...

  Thomas Pynchon

  Children, Believe, Moving

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.165, Penguin

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• You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Grief, Heart

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• The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  People, Forgiving, News

  Twitter post from Jun 17, 2015

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• Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Judgement, Grace

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News of redemption. The truth is revealed in God's Holy Word; life can be lived only in absolute and disciplined submission to its authority.

  Charles Colson

  Jesus, News, Redemption

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• Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

  Philip K. Dick

  People, News, Agree

  "Valis".

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• The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

  Javier Bardem

  People, News, Bad People

  "Berlin 2012: Javier Bardem Talks About Alvaro Longoria's 'Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony' (Q&A)". Interview with Pamela Rolfe, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Convert bad news to good news.

  Bill Gates

  News, Good News

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• Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.

  J. K. Rowling

  Winning, Thinking, Long

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• There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

  Donella Meadows

  Despair, News, Too Much

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• The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

  Mitch McConnell

  Jobs, Years, Needs

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• There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Eerie, News

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.69, Penguin

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• You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Business, Scratches, News

  Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (2013). “Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond”, p.386, Bantam

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• We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

  David Letterman

  Iraq, News, Hussein

  "The First Year Of The Iraq War, As Told Through Late Night TV Jokes" by Nick Robins-Early, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2018.

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• There's good news and bad news about 2 Fast 2 Furious, the moronic follow-up to The Fast and the Furious and a contender for the worst movie of 2003. The good news is that it's better, albeit marginally, than Freddy Got Fingered. The bad news is that it's 15 minutes longer.

  James Berardinelli

  News, Minutes, Worst

  "2 Fast 2 Furious (United States, 2003)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2003.

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• Scientists are adding an extra second to the year 2015. Yeah. Here's the bad news. You just wasted it listening to this joke.

  Conan O'Brien

  Years, Listening, News

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