Bad Things Quotes - Page 30

• The bad thing about the Bushwhackers is that win, lose, or draw, you gotta have everything you got on fumigated.

  Bobby Heenan

  Winning, Wwe, Draws

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• A little mystery is not such a bad thing.

  Kyra Davis

  Littles, Mystery

  Kyra Davis (2012). “Lust, Loathing and a Little Lip Gloss”, p.392, Harlequin

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• I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Would Be, Arrogant, Things To Do

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

  Timothy Keller

  Thinking, Idols, Things In Life

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.11, Penguin

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• I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Communication, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Scott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.

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• And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

  Mark Haddon

  Life, Thinking, France

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• The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Truth Is, Good Things

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• A good man who did a bad thing.

  Mary Matalin

  Men, Good Man, Politics

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• Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?

  Drew Brees

  Fighting, Pressure, Disappear

  Drew Brees (2010). “Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity”, p.23, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

  Jennifer Garner

  Inspirational, Strong, Way

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• You may have heard about living today, tomorrow, or "tonow." Tonow, children tell us, is a gift, which is why we call it "the present." Children understand that tonow is the place to live. The present is really the only moment we have. Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.

  Bernie Siegel

  Children, Feelings, May

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• Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

  Susan Vaught

  Fear, Avoiding Life, Way

  Susan Vaught (2011). “Going Underground”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.

  Wally Lamb

  Fear, Good Things, Happened

  Wally Lamb (2009). “The Hour I First Believed: A Novel”, p.50, Harper Collins

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• California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Knives, California, America

  Hinton Rowan Helper (1855). “The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction”, p.68

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• The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Able, Pessimism

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion: a Dialogue”, p.132, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• We have to tell each other the little things, the bad things. Maybe they’ll hurt for a while, but at least they won’t become big things. If we don’t, we’re just going to keep hurting each other. And I don’t want to do that anymore.

  Veronica Rossi

  Hurt, Want, Littles

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• Heir to your own karma doesn't mean 'You get what you deserve.' I think it means 'You get what you get.' Bad things happen to good people. My happiness depending on my action means, to me, that it depends on my action of choosing compassion--for myself as well as for everyone else--rather than contention. [p.61]

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Karma, Mean, Thinking

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2008). “Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life”, p.40, Ballantine Books

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• People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.

  Jodee Blanco

  Wall, Receiving Love, People

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• When America doesn't act, bad things happen

  Dennis Prager

  America, Happens, Things Happen

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• Good things never last, bad things never die.

  John Darnielle

  Lasts, Good Things, Dies

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• Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Ocean, Wave, Surface

  Lisa Scottoline (2010). “Look Again”, p.218, Macmillan

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  I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Morning, Mean, Alcohol

  MTV News Online, 1992.

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• The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen.

  Wayne Hale

  Aerodynamics, Lines, Normal

  "Astronaut Will Make Shuttle Repairs in Orbit". "NPR News" with David Kestenbaum, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

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• When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Gratitude, Giving, Thanks

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• When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.

  Leslie Jamison

  People, Empathy, Theft

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.20, Granta Books

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