Bad Things Quotes - Page 33

• I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

  John Krasinski

  Thinking, People, Guilty

  "Mandy Moore and John Krasinski Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2007.

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• Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things.

  Ani DiFranco

  Philosophy, People, Done

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• I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

  Jennifer Morrison

  People, Giving, Helping

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

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• I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.

  Patton Oswalt

  Religious, Atheist, Struggle

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2011.

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• To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad? would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Fire, Liberty, Answers

  "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". Book by James Fitzjames Stephen, Ch.2, 1873-1874.

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• I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.

  Benjamin Carson

  Heaven, Happens, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Every single American can exclaim, 'Nothing justifies what they did in New York and Washington,' not even the bombs that our government has dropped on them for ten years or the embargo that has caused the deaths of so many children. That's of course true...The issue is simply an acceptance of reality and a fundamental fact of life: When governments do bad things to people, people sometimes retaliate.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  New York, Children, Acceptance

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• I think it's important for people to know that bad things do happen to good people and that life can throw a serious curveball at even the most cautious and "prepared" people out there.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.
  Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person - yesterday ended last night.

  Zig Ziglar

  Night, Yesterday, Differences

  "See You at the Top". Book by Zig Ziglar, 2000.

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• I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.

  Charles Bukowski

  Evil, Giving, Feel Good

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years.... I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the bad and the good senses. That's an amazing company that is going to do a lot of good and bad things.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Orlando Sentinel, November 03, 2007.

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• The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Failure, Mean, Acceptance

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Good Things, Happens, Things Happen

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• It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Grandfather, Criminals, Noses

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.103, Penguin

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• I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world. It's probably not going to be nearly as interesting as depicted in science fiction as far as the bad things go.

  Palmer Luckey

  Real, Communication, Technology

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

  Ray Dalio

  Doors, Way, Reason

  "Ray Dalio, head of the world's largest hedge fund, explains his succession plan for Bridgewater and how its 'radically transparent' culture is misunderstood". Interview with Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2016.

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• Every organization does good and bad things.

  Andrew Solomon

  Organization, Doe, Good And Bad

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Evil, World, Happens

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• I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

  Ursula Burns

  Believe, Black And White, Thinking

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• A government shutdown, it isn't the end of the world. It`s a bad thing. The government stops working for a few days. We cover it a lot. Polls turn against who ever made it stop working.

  Ezra Klein

  Government, World, Ends

  Source: www.today.com

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• I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.

  Philip Yancey

  Divorce, Simple, Opposites

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan

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• I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.

  John Graves

  Thinking, Annoyed, Southern

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• The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.

  Tom Bodett

  Thinking, Media, People

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• I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.

  Sophia Myles

  Strong, Media, Giving

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• Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Decision, Advice

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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