Bad Things Quotes - Page 37

• Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.

  Rachel Weisz

  People, Working Together, Happens

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• In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

  A. N. Wilson

  Cheer, Past, Political

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• There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

  Fred Wilson

  Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Good Things

  "What We Are Seeing" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

  Debra Winger

  Funny, Life, Distance

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• My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

  John Wozniak

  Mother, Taught, Guides

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• If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Growing Up, Believe, Gay

  "Program or be Programmed: The GeekDad". Interview with Jason Cranfordteague, www.wired.com. July 29, 2011.

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• People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

  Daniel Handler

  Life, Thinking, People

  "A Series of Unfortunate Events". Adventure, Comedy, Family, 2004.

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• My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dumb, Soul, Meat

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.273, Dial Press

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• But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ambition, Garden, Naps

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.

  Charles Bukowski

  Good Luck, Eye, Past

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• We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.

  James Redfield

  Optimistic, Challenges, Events

  James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

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• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

  George Eliot

  Hurt, Disappointment, Pride

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Color, Weather

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Prayer, Religion, Praying

  Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks (2013). “Three Weeks With My Brother”, p.67, Hachette UK

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• But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.' 'What are you telling me?' 'I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Trying, Lucky, Warning

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• It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

  Kate DiCamillo

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• There's a lot of falses - out there and if I take up for myself, it's a bad thing. Sometimes you just got to live with it, but for the most part, I'm like look, I don't want no problems with nobody.

  Kevin Durant

  Looks, Want, Problem

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• I think [James Comey] should take a hard look at what he has done. And I think it would not be a bad thing for the American people if he did step down.

  John Lewis

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I don't have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That's our job, after all. But I think it's incomplete, and I would even say it's inaccurate, to only portray a place through its tragedies.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Jobs, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've always been more than a little mystified by poets who seem to think talking to people as directly as possible is a bad thing. I mean, I don't want to set up a straw man here: I understand that for many poets - and for me, at times - writing truly means writing in a way that is difficult, simply because the poem is trying to grasp for something elusive. So the difficulty of the poem is just unavoidable, and not in any way artificially imposed. So "as possible" is the key part of the phrase above, I suppose.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Mean, Writing, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm just online too much. I drink too much. A lot of bad things.

  Luke Temple

  Too Much, Drink, Online

  Interview with James Rickman, therumpus.net. June 30, 2014.

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• If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You can’t win many elections after a famine, and you don’t like being criticized by newspapers, opposition parties in parliament, and so on. Democracy gives the government an immediate political incentive to act.

  Amartya Sen

  Party, Winning, Government

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• I admire self-awareness more than probably any other quality, and I think in terms of what qualities are "good" in a person, it's a mostly subjective opinion, so I can't see a reason to think that self-absorption is inherently a bad thing.

  Marie Calloway

  Thinking, Self, Quality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

  Paul Bloom

  Moral, Judgment, Good Things

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don't like the ugly stuff, but there are some people - smart people - who have a very different perspective, and I'll get a backlash from them. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

  Paul Bloom

  Smart, Media, People

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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