Bad Things Quotes - Page 28

• Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants . . . Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.

  James Patterson

  Men, Fire, Guy

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dog, Yards, Affection

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• You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely nothing about how to conduct his own relationships, Tiny Cooper is kind of brilliant when it comes to dealing with other people's heartbreak. Tiny is like some gigantic sponge soaking up the pain of lost love everywhere he goes.

  John Green

  Pain, Lost Love, People

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.81, Penguin

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• Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the images of those two out of his head... of course, it would also turn his brain into scrambled eggs, but really, was that such a bad thing?

  J.R. Ward

  Broken Heart, Distance, Eye

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.420, Penguin

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• You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you. Somehow I think you could do all sorts of bad things to me, and I'd still come back to you. Just keep things honest, okay? Tell me what you're feeling. If you're feeling something for Dimitri that's confusing you, tell me. We'll work it out.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Personality, Feelings

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Vampire Academy: Spirit Bound”, p.302, Penguin UK

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• "Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving toward me, "I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know you think the only things that are left in your life are the bad things. I know what you're feeling, Cam." Her hands were on my shoulders. Her blue eyes were staring into mine. "I know."

  Ally Carter

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

  "Only the Good Spy Young". Book by Ally Carter, 2010.

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• Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn’t realize that “test” is normally a bad thing.

  Rick Riordan

  Home, Tests, Realizing

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.223, Penguin UK

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• Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.

  Shane Claiborne

  Country, People, Vision

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.154, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is one thing you know for sure, one fact that never fails to comfort you: the worst day of your life wasn't in there, in that mess. And it will do you good to remember the best day of your life wasn't in there, either. But another person brought you closer to those borders than you had been, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

  Sloane Crosley

  Comfort, Borders, Facts

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.141, Penguin

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• Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen

  Jonathan Carroll

  Giving, Friendly, Faces

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “A Child Across the Sky”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• I was feeling safe. Not the kind of safe where you know there are still bad things howling outside the door waiting to get in. No, it was the kind of safe where you sink down in your bed at the end of the day and know you can go to sleep and everything is going to be the same tomorrow.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Sleep, Doors, Waiting

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• When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Heart, People, Soul

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• I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl … And chicken wings.” Rylann turned her head and stared at him. “Did you really just compare me to chicken wings?” “You say that like it’s a bad thing. Chicken wings are the bomb.

  Julie James

  Girl, Wings, Mind

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.25, Penguin

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• Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

  Mats Sundin

  Critics, Seeing

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• All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them.

  Lon Chaney, Jr.

  Sympathy, Father, Character

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• An agenda is not a bad thing.

  Kathy Ireland

  Agendas

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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