Bad Things Quotes - Page 26

• There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Mean, Scary

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Strong, War, Smart

  "Give War a Chance". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1992.

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• People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

  Cormac McCarthy

  People, Complaining, Ems

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• Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Eye, Loss

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• Progress just means bad things happen faster.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Progress, Faster

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.317, Random House

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• Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Bored, Mouths, Facts

  Scott Westerfeld (2005). “So Yesterday”, p.12, Penguin

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• I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

  Bono

  Public Opinion, Doe, Audience

  "Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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• I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad - when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family's been hurt, somebody's going to die. I'm sure a therapist would go, 'That's not a good way to live,' but every time it's not that bad thing, I'm so thankful and appreciative.

  Sandra Bullock

  Hurt, Thinking, Phones

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• I've been around so long and no matter if I've done good things or bad things, or my personal life has been good or bad, the fans have always stuck with me.

  Hulk Hogan

  Long, Fans, Done

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• Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

  Homer

  Sleep, Too Much, Concerned

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• I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, People, How You Feel

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• I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.

  Michael Jordan

  Fun, Gambling, People

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• Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

  Daryn Kagan

  War, People, Ordinary

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• Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Sex, Women, Memorable

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• People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Positive, Inspiring, Mom

  "Lenny Kravitz Lashes out about Iraq - but he's all about the Love" by Archive-Joseph-Patel, www.mtv.com. October 08, 2007.

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• I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

  Joan Rivers

  Mean, Enjoy Life, Alive

  "Joan Rivers Hates You, Herself And Everyone Else". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kuer.org. June 11, 2012.

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• Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

  Salman Rushdie

  Ideas, People, Killing

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  Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

  Adam Sandler

  Making Love, Cracks, Chemistry

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• If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

  Paulo Coelho

  Suffering, Pleasant Surprises, Good Things

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart

  Alfred de Musset

  Heart, Love Is, Play

  Alfred de Musset, David Sices (1994). “Comedies & proverbs”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

  Jodi Picoult

  Games, Long, Ears

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• Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing. -Drizzt Do'urden

  R. A. Salvatore

  Regret, Believe, Moving

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• Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.

  Joel Osteen

  Decision, When Bad Things Happen, Circumstances

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• No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

  Randy Pausch

  Good Morning, Good Day, Optimistic

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

  Darren Shan

  Truth, Real, Hero

  Darren Shan (2012). “Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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