Bad Things Quotes - Page 37

• I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

  Mike Tyson

  Kids, Emotional, Thinking

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• I think [James Comey] should take a hard look at what he has done. And I think it would not be a bad thing for the American people if he did step down.

  John Lewis

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

  James Surowiecki

  Welfare, Corporate

  "Corporate Welfare Queens". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

  Natalie du Toit

  Being Positive, Trying, Use

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• Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.

  Rachel Weisz

  People, Working Together, Happens

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• Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

  Rick Warren

  Thinking, Rejection, Grace

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• Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.

  Sofia Vergara

  Drama, Support You, Giving

  "Sofia Vergara's Secrets: The Esquire Cover Story" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

  Jim Valvano

  Trust, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dumb, Soul, Meat

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.273, Dial Press

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• But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ambition, Garden, Naps

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.

  Charles Bukowski

  Good Luck, Eye, Past

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• But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.' 'What are you telling me?' 'I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Trying, Lucky, Warning

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• I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Prayer, Religion, Praying

  Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks (2013). “Three Weeks With My Brother”, p.67, Hachette UK

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• When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Color, Weather

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a lot of falses - out there and if I take up for myself, it's a bad thing. Sometimes you just got to live with it, but for the most part, I'm like look, I don't want no problems with nobody.

  Kevin Durant

  Looks, Want, Problem

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

  George Eliot

  Hurt, Disappointment, Pride

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.

  James Redfield

  Optimistic, Challenges, Events

  James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

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• It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

  Kate DiCamillo

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• I admire self-awareness more than probably any other quality, and I think in terms of what qualities are "good" in a person, it's a mostly subjective opinion, so I can't see a reason to think that self-absorption is inherently a bad thing.

  Marie Calloway

  Thinking, Self, Quality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Friends, Kids, Thinking

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• I'm just online too much. I drink too much. A lot of bad things.

  Luke Temple

  Too Much, Drink, Online

  Interview with James Rickman, therumpus.net. June 30, 2014.

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• I've always been more than a little mystified by poets who seem to think talking to people as directly as possible is a bad thing. I mean, I don't want to set up a straw man here: I understand that for many poets - and for me, at times - writing truly means writing in a way that is difficult, simply because the poem is trying to grasp for something elusive. So the difficulty of the poem is just unavoidable, and not in any way artificially imposed. So "as possible" is the key part of the phrase above, I suppose.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Mean, Writing, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That's our job, after all. But I think it's incomplete, and I would even say it's inaccurate, to only portray a place through its tragedies.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Jobs, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

  David Bowie

  Artist, Lines, Strange

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.

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• Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human.

  Benjamin Stone

  Vulnerable, Humans, Vulnerability

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