Bad Things Quotes - Page 10

• The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us when they do.

  Janette Oke

  Love Is, Promise, Truth Of God

  Love Comes Softly, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Trying, Lucky

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.264, Faber & Faber

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• I'm very tech-forward. However, I also think hitting the pause button is not a bad thing, and really connecting with people one-to-one viscerally, having a connection with someone, is really important.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, People, Important

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• We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

  John Sununu

  Might, Too Much, Bureaucracy

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• You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.

  Michael Steele

  Country, Gun, Law

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• I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.

  Ed Sheeran

  Daughter, Moving, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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• The New York Times is fighting desperately for its relevance and its financial survival. And it probably won't even be around in a few years, based on its financial outlook, which wouldn't be a bad thing, if you want to know the truth.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Fighting, Years

  Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations, www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• Just providing information about how bad things are, or the statistics and data on incarceration by themselves, does lead to more depression and resignation and is not empowering. The information has to be presented in a way that's linked to the piece about encouraging students to think critically and creatively about how they might respond to injustice, and how young people have responded to injustice in the past.

  Michelle Alexander

  Past, Thinking, Data

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Bill Russell, a famous philosopher from Boston Celtics once "When things go bad, things go bad." The [Iraq] war was terribly mismanaged-it was terribly mismanaged.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Boston, Iraq

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Conversation, Thousand, Knows

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• If you do keep the faith and continue to be radical, very bad things can and do happen to you. At the very least you will be marginalized. Same if you are poor and strike out. Prison awaits you in the USA.

  Michael Yates

  Usa, Prison, Keep The Faith

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I remember someone said to me, "Beware of instant chemistry with people, because a lot of time it's the recognition of something familiar," and for people who have a habit of getting into unhealthy relationships, that's usually a bad thing.

  Gillian Jacobs

  People, Recognition, Remember

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

  Ray Dalio

  Strong, Eye, Would Be

  "Ray Dalio eclipses George Soros as most successful fund manager" by Simon Goodley, www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.

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• The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.

  Willem Dafoe

  Exercise, Theatre, Vices

  Interview with Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 1998.

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• I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.

  DMX

  Done, May, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

  Confucius

  Missing Someone, Hate, Love You

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• It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Family, Children, Parenting

  "My Mother's House". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1922.

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• Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Nature, Swans

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya”, p.148

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• The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

  Winston Churchill

  Respect, Unique, People

  Hansard 10 June 1941, col. 152

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• There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Up To You, Good Things

  "Coping With Crisis: Advice For The Hard Times From Deepak Chopra" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2012.

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• In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Asking Why, People, Different

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• Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

  Samuel Butler

  Dream, Prayer, World

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• America needs an ineffective president. That's much better than an effective president that's going to go to war with Russia, that's going to push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that's going to protect Wall Street, and that's going to oppose neoliberal austerity. I would much rather have an ineffective president than someone who's going to do these bad things that I fear is going to come from Hillary and the Democratic Party.

  Michael Hudson

  Wall, War, Party

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

  Jo Brand

  Comedy, Madness

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• You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

  Tori Amos

  Lying, Healing, People

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