Bad Things Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

  Tiger Woods

  Done

  Interview with Tom Rinaldi, www.espn.com. March 22, 2010.

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• All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

  Julian Barnes

  Lying, Night, Thinking

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• Yes, it is true. I am a miracle. I am a miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is a miracle. Now, if I am a miracle, can I do a bad thing? I can't, because I am a miracle, I am a miracle. . . .

  Pablo Casals

  Flower, Tree, Miracle

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• Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the phrase just for the Happening, to have a catchy name for it; and then it immediately got taken up and brought into use. There's no defence against that - and really it's no bad thing.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Taken

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

  Homer

  Kings, House, Authority

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

  Tim Robbins

  Doe, Cocoons, Kind

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• An agenda is not a bad thing.

  Kathy Ireland

  Agendas

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• The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.

  Julian Baggini

  Pain, Motivation, Animal

  "Be pragmatic, not obsessive" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 05, 2009.

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• Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.

  Andrea Corr

  Hurt, Drinking, Thinking

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• Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

  Jon Ronson

  Adventure, Trying, Littles

  RINF News Interview, rinf.com. April 3, 2005.

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• You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.

  Laz Alonso

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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