Bad Things Quotes - Page 20

• The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Truth Is, Good Things

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• Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?

  Drew Brees

  Fighting, Pressure, Disappear

  Drew Brees (2010). “Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity”, p.23, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

  Jennifer Garner

  Inspirational, Strong, Way

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• You may have heard about living today, tomorrow, or "tonow." Tonow, children tell us, is a gift, which is why we call it "the present." Children understand that tonow is the place to live. The present is really the only moment we have. Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.

  Bernie Siegel

  Children, Feelings, May

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• Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

  Susan Vaught

  Fear, Avoiding Life, Way

  Susan Vaught (2011). “Going Underground”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.

  Wally Lamb

  Fear, Good Things, Happened

  Wally Lamb (2009). “The Hour I First Believed: A Novel”, p.50, Harper Collins

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• I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Would Be, Arrogant, Things To Do

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A little mystery is not such a bad thing.

  Kyra Davis

  Littles, Mystery

  Kyra Davis (2012). “Lust, Loathing and a Little Lip Gloss”, p.392, Harlequin

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• The bad thing about the Bushwhackers is that win, lose, or draw, you gotta have everything you got on fumigated.

  Bobby Heenan

  Winning, Wwe, Draws

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• There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.

  Sylvia Plath

  Satisfaction, Certain, Clinicals

  "The Journals of Sylvia Plath".

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• But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

  Julianna Baggott

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• Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do.

  Peter Steele

  Pain, Suffering, Earth

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• Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be careful. Sometimes it can alienate the reader, it can be another level of mediation, to make a character carry the great burden of a metaphoric name. The character can be a device before he or she becomes a person, and that can be a bad thing for a writer who wants to offer up a kind of emotional proximity in the work. It's a constant struggle, the desire to be playful and the desire to communicate on some very stark emotional level.

  Joshua Ferris

  Struggle, Character, Emotional

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• No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; when men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge: this may be bad; but it is human nature.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Peace, War, Hate

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• When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Weed, Garden, Evil

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• I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Mean, Ku Klux Klan, White

  Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.85, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• How about a new game show called 'Battle Begala?' Contestants would pick any obscure bad thing that happened anywhere in the world, and Paul would have 10 seconds to explain why it is President Bush's fault.

  Ann Coulter

  Games, Battle, President

  "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. August 5, 2002.

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• A good man who did a bad thing.

  Mary Matalin

  Men, Good Man, Politics

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• California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Knives, California, America

  Hinton Rowan Helper (1855). “The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction”, p.68

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• Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

  Natalia Kills

  Happened, Defined

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• Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.

  Warren St. John

  World, Bigger, Bigs

  Warren St. John (2009). “Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference”, p.292, Spiegel & Grau

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• We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

  Timothy Keller

  Thinking, Idols, Things In Life

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.11, Penguin

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• Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Powerful, Taken

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.50, Penguin

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• I am mean; I'm nasty at times. I don't feel like talking to people at times. When I am in a bad mood and have had a really awful day, don't come in my face because I am not tolerant and I am not a goddess; I can't handle it after a point. I am going to get up, and I am going to scream, and I am going to say bad things to you.

  Kajol

  Mean, Talking, People

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• Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

  Joseph Joubert

  Enmity, Today, Emotion

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