Bad Things Quotes - Page 16

• There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

  Hannah More

  Two, Evil, World

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• The bad thing about being with an actor is that the role he's in stays with him all the time. The good thing about being with an actor - well, I can't think of any good thing.

  Sally Field

  Thinking, Dating, Roles

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• I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.

  Sarah Kay

  Block, Writing, Thinking

  Source: saseye.com

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• It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

  Karl Marx

  Tired, Fighting, Hair

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

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• Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Men, Evil

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II, 11,

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• Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.

  Miroslav Volf

  Helping, Good Things, Substitutes

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• I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

  William Merritt Chase

  Education, School, Boys

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• When you have some skills but don't fully understand your environment, there is no way you can be a plus one. At best, you can be a zero. But a zero isn't a bad thing to be. You're competent enough not to create problems or make more work for everyone else. And you have to be competent, and prove to others that you are, before you can be extraordinary. There are no short-cuts, unfortunately.

  Chris Hadfield

  Zero, Cutting, Skills

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no golden rule of dating, except to make sure that it engages both of you; too many people go to a cinema for a first date and of course don't say a word, that's a bad thing!

  Steven Hill

  People, Dating, Firsts

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• Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.

  Robert Genn

  Mistake, Thinking, Way

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• If you're feeling really sad, there is only one reason: it's because you're deleting all the reasons you could be feeling good. And if you're feeling good, it's because you're deleting all the bad things you could be focusing on.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Feel Good, Feelings

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• Human beings have a variety of intelligences, such as cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, musical intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, and so on. Most people excel in one or two of those, but do poorly in the others. This is not necessarily or even usually a bad thing; part of Integral wisdom is finding where one excels and thus where one can best offer the world one's deepest gifts.

  Ken Wilber

  Emotional, Two, People

  Ken Wilber (2007). “The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine.

  Daniel Cormier

  Mma, Shining, Matter

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• It doesn't matter how bad things are, something good could happen always. And it doesn't matter how many excuses you have for behaving in an unkind manner towards others. There's never any excuse for not being kind and it's always better to be kind even if it seems pointless and that in fact is the highest wisdom - being kind. It sounds like a very noble, ethereal, simplistic idea but it's true.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Excuse You, Ideas, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• Many people believe that making themselves the key person in their lives is a bad thing. It’s simply good common sense. After all, you’re the only person who’s with you 24/7, until you draw your last breath.

  Lauren Mackler

  Believe, Keys, People

  "8 Principles for Having Fun" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

  J. C. Watts

  Strong, African American, Identity

  "What Color is a Conservative?". Book by Chriss Winston and J. C. Watts, abcnews.go.com. October 22, 2002.

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• No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.

  Courtney Milan

  Men, Broken, Happens

  Courtney Milan (2011). “Unraveled”, p.108, Courtney Milan

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• I think it is important that we all try and be green where it is possible; an awareness of the world around us can never be a bad thing.

  Judd Gregg

  Thinking, Important, Trying

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• I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same.

  Colleen Hoover

  Needs, Remember Who You Are, Want

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.

  Ingrid Law

  Together, Might, Good Things

  Ingrid Law (2008). “Savvy”, p.302, Penguin

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• living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.

  George Sand

  Self, Intellectual, Able

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.

  Joyce DiDonato

  Yoga, Thinking, Mind

  "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...

  John Lennon

  Thinking, Names, Political

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 226), 2000.

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• Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

  John B. Larson

  Government, Long, Tools

  "Globalization: A Rendezvous with Reality" by John B. Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2007.

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• I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with numbers; in fact some of them are rather slow. This is not a bad thing; they are slow because they think deeply and carefully about mathematics.

  Jo Boaler

  Thinking, Numbers, Facts

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