Good People Doing Bad Things Quotes

#1. Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Amy Bloom

#2. Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.

Calvin Coolidge

#3. In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions ... We've got to buck that trend

Ed Miliband

#4. But are there really good people? Good people, through and through? Or are we all just varying versions of bad people, some trying harder to be good?

Anna Banks

#5. I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it.

Robert B. Parker

#6. The whole what-goes-around-comes-around thing is simply our way of trying to make sense out of things that make no sense. Great stuff happens to bad people. Bad shit happens to good people. This is just the way it is.

Zoey Dean

#7. I don't want to pretend that everything is black and white, that people are either all good or all bad, and that I'm the one best qualified to tell the difference.

C.J. Redwine

#8. Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

Maya Banks

#9. People are very bad and very good. A little love goes a long way.

Amy Poehler

#10. Vin shook her head. "No, not me. I'm not a good person or a bad person. I'm just here to kill things."
OreSeur watched her for a moment, then settled back down. "Regardless," he said, "you are not my worst master. That is, perhaps, a compliment among our people.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. It's been said that people see what they want to see. For that exact reason, look for the good in people, rather than the bad.

Donald L. Hicks

#12. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive.

Tullian Tchividjian

#13. Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

Bill Nye

#14. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Criss Jami

#15. Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt. Maybe there was a part of me that was worthy of their love.

Piper Kerman

#16. There are no "good" or "bad" people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.

Tennessee Williams

#17. One of the big things that if you've got a guy who is doing things that other people could view as evil or bad, then you've got to find the silver lining: you've got to find the thing that makes this guy a good guy.

Dylan Baker

#18. What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

Tristan Wilds

#19. History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

C.S. Lewis

#20. Good people usually have a reason for doing bad things.

Jay Crownover

#21. There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

Herbert Simon

#22. any one of us can draw the bad card of an aggressive cancer. Good people - doing all the right things - still get sick. It's tempting to want to find something - or someone - to blame.

H. Gilbert Welch

#23. Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

#24. Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

Elizabeth Chandler

#25. Doing good things for bad people is no different than doing bad things on good people.

M.F. Moonzajer

#26. I guess I learned that even though most people are good, they can be talked into doing bad things by one or two jerks...And I guess, people sometimes need someone who can stand up and remind them that they are good people and they know what's right.

Christopher Scotton

#27. The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things
they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

Slavoj Zizek

#28. It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

G.K. Chesterton

#29. People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.

Katy Perry

#30. Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy?

John Mellencamp

#31. Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.

Alan Furst

#32. That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. Good or bad, if you're not "normal," you can't have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.

Donna Lynn Hope

#34. Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.

Philippe Kahn

#35. Lesson learned: bad things happen to good people.

Amy Zhang

#36. Some people exude their futures, good or bad.

John Steinbeck

#37. It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things are said about you, it's always those one or two bad comments that really stay with you and gnaw at you. I try not to read that stuff if I can.

Jordin Sparks

#38. I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.

Najib Mikati

#39. People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row.

Luiz Felipe Scolari

#40. In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people, ... [t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are invariably frustrated.:; 'Good poor man defeats bad rich man' is an accepted formula.

George Orwell

#41. In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Octavia E. Butler

#42. So much of people's fortune, good or bad, depends upon how they choose to fall in love.

Kate Saunders

#43. What makes us humans? We are not good or bad. We are yes, no, and maybe all at once. Machines are neither good or back either. It is the people using them who make the distinction.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#44. I've seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It's a bad place to be and that's why having good friends is always essential. Those are the people who pull you out.

Daniel Craig

#45. People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.

Sherry Stringfield

#46. Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.

Timothy Keller

#47. I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.

Mark Fuhrman

#48. The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live!

Ravi Zacharias

#49. Very talented people make some very bad songs so that people with a fourth grade reading level can sing along. Sure, corporate worship is good- but for me, I get very bored in Church trying to worship.

Reese Roper

#50. Ah, don't grieve, little falcon,' he said with that tenderly melodious gentleness with which old Russian women speak. 'Don't grieve, little friend: you suffer an hour, you live an age! So it is, my dear. And we live here, thank God, with no offense. There's bad people, and there's good

Leo Tolstoy

#51. It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

Amy Poehler

#52. Even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer.

Nicholas Sparks

#53. A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

Sonny Liston

#54. The first thing that success would teach you is to differentiate the good and bad people around you

Deepika Muthusamy

#55. I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years ...

Ava Gardner

#56. Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.

Soheir Khashoggi