Bad News Quotes - Page 8

• The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

  R. Lee Ermey

  News, Motivated, Instructors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Circles, Laughing

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.131, Penguin UK

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• We're not robbing him," Skulduggery said." But I'm afraid I have some bad news." "Is it Deacon?" Francine asked, her eyes wide. "It is." "Is he sick?" "It's a little worse than that." She gasped. "He's dying?" "He was briefly dying," said Skulduggery. "Now he's dead.

  Derek Landy

  Eye, Sick, Dying

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• In real life things don’t go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Cutting, Doors

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.144, Random House

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• If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth. The worst part is staying in the room after you've broken the news, so that you're forced to be there when someone's life disintegrates around them. Some people say it doesn't bother them - such people are not to be trusted.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Jobs, People, Broken

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.83, Del Rey

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• A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

  David Mitchell

  Winning, Voice, Giving

  "Once upon a life: David Mitchell" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

  Steven Moffat

  News, Assuming, Audience

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• There was no sign of Jules. “Bad news,” said Elliot. “The man is sick. You’re going to have to settle for me.” “Sick?” Vee demanded. “How sick? What kind of excuse is sick?” “Sick as in it’s coming out both ends.” Vee scrunched her nose. “Too much information.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Men, Sick, News

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon." "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, "You sound just like Dad.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, Song, Dad

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

  Susan Orlean

  Boredom, Flying, Training

  "In Flight" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2010.

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• The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.

  Bill Gates

  Sound, Needs, News

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• The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Confused, Quality, News

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• Kids put life into perspective. I never have a bad day. Life happens and you get bad news sometime, or things don't go your way at work - for me that might mean I lose a game or not play well - but that doesn't affect my mood from day to day. I love going home and seeing the smiles on my daughters' faces being happy to see me, and that makes everything all right.

  Stephen Curry

  Daughter, Home, Mean

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Intelligent, News, Use

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• There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past.

  Seth Klarman

  Past, News, Amount

  "The 20 Forgotten Lessons Of 2008" by Christopher Pavese, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2010.

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• The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Men, Hands, Jail

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• You folks feeling the economic pinch? Are you a little fed up with the economic news? It's bad. The department stores, this holiday season, no Santa Claus. They're laying off department-store Santa Clauses. So more bad news for John McCain.

  David Letterman

  Holiday, Feelings, News

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• Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Land, Democracy

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• If you have to release bad news to the public, it would help if you are not ugly.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, News

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• Being inundated with constant "bad" news from the media doesn't help.

  Brenda Strong

  Media, News, Helping

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• Let me give you really bad news, and I'm sure people will demonize me for saying this: the rich are always gonna be with us. They will always be with us. There are rich people in Cuba. There are rich people in Venezuela. You pick the policies, and the rich are gonna figure it out. They're always gonna be rich.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  People, Giving, Cuba

  Source: gawker.com

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• If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The record's about not her. It's about my struggles through years of dealing with the aftermath of lost love and longing and just mediocrity and just bad news, like life stuff. And in the [record], where the title comes from, the lyrics are actually a conversation between me and another girl, not this Emma character.

  Justin Vernon

  Girl, Lost Love, Struggle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Data, Political, Glitches

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The good news doesn't make any sense unless you know what the bad news is first, and the bad news goes pretty deep.

  Bill Mallonee

  News, Firsts, Knows

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• I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

  Richard Engel

  News Stories, Looks, Good News

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