Always Bad News Quotes

#1. Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

John Green

#2. It's always bad news when you kill your date

Jay Leno

#3. Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.

David Wong

#4. Self knowledge is always bad news.

John Barth

#5. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

Harper Lee

#6. The worst way to release bad news is to bury it in the financial statement footnotes, in the hope that no one will see it. A diligent investor or analyst always reads the footnotes, and will not appreciate having to dig so deep to uncover potentially critical information.

Steven M. Bragg

#7. Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#8. God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

Lucy Larcom

#9. We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#10. I'll tell you a piece of news
I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell.

Anne Bronte

#11. But finally, into the world came a baby girl, just as, I'm very, very sorry to say, her mother, and my sister, slipped away from the world after a long night of suffering - but also a night of joy, as the birth of a baby is always good news, no matter how much bad news the baby will hear later.

Lemony Snicket

#12. Bad news. If you can see it coming, you brace yourself; you weigh the outcome. But there's always that niggling voice, that voice of hope whispering, 'Maybe it's good news.' Whether you can admit it or not, that little whisper is a potent thing.

Lily Gardner

#13. Religion, therefore - despite the correctness of its insistence that something needs to be done about our relationship with God - remains unqualified bad news: it traps us in a game we will always and everywhere lose.

Robert Farrar Capon

#14. I always say that when a country wins with such overwhelming might, it's bad news for that country.

Stephane Hessel

#15. The bad news (or good news, depending on your point of view) is that things have always been like this.

Thomas Piketty

#16. At last he met the chief butler, the sight of which splendid retainer always finished him. Extinguished by this great creature, he sneaked to his dressing-room, and there remained shut up until he rode out to dinner, with Mrs Merdle, in her own handsome chariot. At dinner, he was envied

Charles Dickens

#17. For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

Richard Ford

#18. Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.

Mitch Albom

#19. I always feel a little guilty when I break bad news to someone, because that energy, of knowing something others don't, sort of puffs you up.

Jane Smiley

#20. Bad news should always come after lunch.. first thing in the morning everything left a bruise.

Stephen King

#21. There's always good news wrapped up in bad news.

Frank Delaney

#22. More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

Simon Sinek

#23. An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

Hugh Leonard

#24. Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

Lewis Thomas

#25. nervously. "I have never dared to concentrate as hard as I can for fear of the damage I might do. I'm to the point where a mere whim is a blockbuster.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#26. And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices. One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever. Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.

Neil Pasricha

#27. Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric.

Thomas Sowell

#28. You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.

Harvey MacKay

#29. It always amazes me how many women like dangerous men. Men who almost from the moment you meet them, you know are bad news. Me, I prefer my men kinder, gentler, nice. Niceness is highly underrated by most people.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#30. Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.

John C. Maxwell

#31. The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.

Eric Ries

#32. Death suddenly seemed unimportant and life seemed everything

Hugh MacLennan

#33. Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

Peter Diamandis

#34. Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.

Mason Cooley

#35. We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

Frederick Lenz