Bad Things Quotes - Page 9

• In life, we don't know why things happen. I believe God is not responsible for the bad things that happen to you. Sometimes I think He's responsible for the good things, but sometimes it's something you shape up for yourself.

  Buck Brannaman

  Believe, Thinking, Why Things Happen

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• ...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Together

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [...]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.

  Nancy Farmer

  Giving Up, Fighting, Animal

  Nancy Farmer (2013). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.

  Carson McCullers

  Running, People, Events

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Thank God, Waste

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

  Carrie Fisher

  Order, Difficult Situations, Survivor

  Carrie Fisher (2005). “The Best Awful: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything happens for a reason, Sadie, even bad things.

  Rick Riordan

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Sadie, Reason

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can’t. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.

  Holly Black

  Regret, Want, Sometimes

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart: The Curse Workers”, p.174, Hachette UK

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• Something snapped inside her. “Of course I’m afraid! Relationships do bad things to me.” He started to respond, but the pain had gone on long enough, and she didn’t want to hear it. “You know what I want? I want peace. I want a good job and a decent place to live. I want to read books and listen to music and have time to make some female friendships that are going to last. When I wake up in the morning, I want to know that I have a decent shot at being happy. And here’s what’s really sad. Until I met you, I was almost there.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Morning, Jobs, Pain

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• No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Matter, Walks, Stills

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.17, Random House

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• I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

  Veronica Roth

  Life, Who I Am, Done

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• Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.

  Megan McCafferty

  Happens

  Megan McCafferty (2009). “Perfect Fifths: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.78, Broadway Books

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• Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

  Corey Taylor

  People, Happens, Things Happen

  Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.30, Da Capo Press

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• Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.

  James A. Owen

  Stories, Pages, Happens

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• One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing — the characters, the story, the words, the themes — and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don’t warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don’t fall apart.

  Veronica Roth

  Falling In Love, Writing, Character

  Amazon.com Q&A with Author, www.amazon.com.

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• FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn’t always prevail over evil.

  Susane Colasanti

  Mean, People, Evil

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.101, Penguin

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• Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Together, Good Things, Thread

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• We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending.

  Jodi Picoult

  Queens, Men, People

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• I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Believe, Worry, Hard

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• You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

  Paula Fox

  Stills, Happenings, Ifs

  Paula Fox (2016). “The Slave Dancer”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

  Maya Banks

  Hard Times, People, Bumps

  Maya Banks (2012). “Echoes at Dawn”, p.207, Penguin

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• The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?

  Cheryl Strayed

  Liars, Self, Order

  "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus advice Column #68: The bad things you did". therumpus.net. March 24, 2011.

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• No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

  Veronica Roth

  Perfect, Weakness, Way

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• It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.

  Chris Crutcher

  Moving, Thinking, Scary

  Chris Crutcher (1995). “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes”, Laurel Leaf

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• I don't believe there's a reason for everything, and having faith doesn't mean I'm blind. I believe people make poor choices. I believe bad things happen to good people. I believe there's evil in the word that I will never understand, but will never stop fighting.

  Tammara Webber

  Believe, Mean, Fighting

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.15, Tammara Webber

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