Quotes About Bad Things

#1. She'd grown to hate people in authority. They did bad things and got away with it.

Jan Springer

#2. Don't let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you. Don't fill your mind with all the bad things that might still happen. Stay focused on the present situation and ask yourself why it's so unbearable and can't be survived." - MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.36

Ryan Holiday

#3. Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten - and they're talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.

Edward Snowden

#4. I've done so many bad things in my life but the stars always forgave me.

Susan Fletcher

#5. How can you say bad things about someone you don't know?" I shout. "How can you hate a stranger? Why do you have to pick on people?" she's not better than Yaqui. It's like everywhere there's a bully in my face.

Meg Medina

#6. Sometimes bad things happen. Nothing caused them. They're nobody's fault and no one's to blame. They just happen.

Katherine Lampe

#7. It's just, well, I can't stand it when someone's unfair to Mr. Wolflaw, because he's really so ... he's so incredible." "I understand. It really steams me when people say bad things about Vladimir Putin.

Dean Koontz

#8. The bad things don't define us, it's what we make of them that does. Turn a negative into a positive, that kind of thing.

Micalea Smeltzer

#9. You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.

John Green

#10. There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

Ray Dalio

#11. Bad things happen to good people and Good things happen to bad people..that's just how life is. Yet ... A Great person is the one that will overcome it all!

Timothy Pina

#12. There are good and bad things in all political systems.

Herman Wouk

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

M.F. Moonzajer

#14. I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.

Takeru Kobayashi

#15. Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen. - Carter to Georgina

Richelle Mead

#16. We are made of memories and formed by experience. I keep wondering what kind of people we would be, and what kind of world this would be, if when bad things happened we could erase them, or somehow make them sweet.

Sue Halpern

#17. Be deaf to those who love you most of all; they pray for bad things with good intentions.

Seneca.

#18. It's a long story, but one you've never heard before. This story is about a place that dwells on the mountain; a place where bad things happen. And you may think you know about the bad things, you may decide you have it all figured out but you don't. Because the truth is worse than monsters or men.

C.K. Walker

#19. How do you stop yourself from worrying?" "I think of all the good things in my life." "What about the bad things?" "There's no room for them inside my head. Not anymore. Now I say live and let live, and I kick those other thoughts away.

Judy Blume

#20. Sometimes you ignore the bad things about the people you love because you love them so much.

Andrea Hannah

#21. By grounding yourself in mindfulness early in the morning, you are reminding yourself that things are always changing, that good and bad things come and go, and that it is possible to embody a perspective of of constancy, wisdom, and inner peace as you face any conditions that present themselves.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#22. I wondered if that principle of renewal could be applied to a person. If you left a girl alone, she could learn to heal herself. She could consciously forget bad things, or at least learn to live with them.

Heather Crews

#23. I think we're all capable of bad things but luckily most of us are able to curb ourselves.

Jacki Weaver

#24. Everything will be okay. Good things last, and the bad things will fade away. So, go find your good.

Jessica Park

#25. The hardest part of writing a story is making bad things happen to good people. The hardest part of writing horror is knowing that it won't really get better for them.

Allison M. Dickson

#26. Good things happen when you take action. Bad things happen when you neglect.

John Addison

#27. The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough
about good things.

Larry Crabb

#28. A lot of bad things happen in lame duck sessions.

Marco Rubio

#29. When bad things happen to men we say it's terrible, but when bad things happen to women we say that's just a cultural practice, says Lou de Baca, U.S. Ambassador at Large, Office to Combat and Monitor Human Trafficking.

Nita Belles

#30. Bad things happen, but really bad things do not. Do buy the dips, especially the lowest quality securities when they come under pressure, because declines will quickly be reversed.

Seth Klarman

#31. I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

Guy Pearce

#32. No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

Ziggy Marley

#33. Sometimes bad things need to be reminded they're not the only ones who can bite.

Eliza Crewe

#34. 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

#35. I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

Agnes Varda

#36. We live days and weeks and months and years with so little awareness of life. We wait for the bad things that wake us up and shock our systems. But every now and then, on the most average day, it occurs to you that this is it. This is all there is.

Jill McCorkle

#37. All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

Lawrence Summers

#38. To want other people to grow. To want other people to have all the good things that you have. And to spare them the bad things if you can. That was goodness.

Orson Scott Card

#39. Progress just means bad things happen faster.

Terry Pratchett

#40. Bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.

Richard Dawkins

#41. To me, the quarterback position is about getting your team out of bad things and into good ones.

Chad Pennington

#42. 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

#43. I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen.

Katy Perry

#44. I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

L.M. Montgomery

#45. Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white show, and this isn't about bad guys and good guys, but it's about good men being capable of bad things and vice versa, I wanted to be in a city that had contradiction.

Veena Sud

#46. Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.

Jimi Hendrix

#47. What does it say about your character if you do bad things while claiming it's all in the name of good?

Ernie Lindsey

#48. the logic of fairy tales was that there was no logic: bad things happened to the innocent, children were set out in the woods by their parents, fear walked hand in hand with experience, a wish spoken aloud could make it so. I

Alice Hoffman

#49. I shot him a look. "That bouncer was really big."
His lips quirked. "Oh, Kitten, see, I try not to say bad things."
"What?"
The grin spread. "I would say size doesn't matter but it does. I would know." he winked, and I let out a disgusted groan. He laughed.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#50. Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of bad things - it doesn't matter how.

Robert Gottlieb

#51. People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

Amanda Hocking

#52. 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

#53. You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.

Sarah Dunn

#54. 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

#55. But life can't be about holding on to the bad things. It has to be about grabbing on to the good things and letting the bad things go.

Sophie Kinsella

#56. I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

Tim Robbins

#57. All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them.

Lon Chaney Jr.

#58. Even out of bad things, good things can happen. Even things that are sordid or painful can lead to things that are beautiful.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#59. Say all the bad things you can imagine so they won't happen.

Anonymous

#60. When you stand by and let bad things happen, your child experiences the twin disappointments that something went wrong and you did not seem to care enough about her to lift a finger to help prevent the mishap.

Alfie Kohn

#61. Emma had honest-to-God fantasies about stopping by a pet store and getting a cat. Emma was allergic to cats. That's how bad things were.

Anonymous

#62. No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

Kirk Douglas

#63. No matter how bad things become, they will eventually get better. In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair. So if the Chinese oppressed us, it could only strengthen us

Dalai Lama XIV

#64. I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.

Barry Eisler

#65. I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.

Jeffrey Jones

#66. Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen, and you can't stop them? You can't do anything, you just have to wait?

Gillian Flynn

#67. I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

Mike Birbiglia

#68. Bad Things Happen ... But Then Good Things Happen

Nalini Singh

#69. My grandma always said bad things don't last forever.

Lamar Odom

#70. Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped.

Kim Newman

#71. Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen.

Ryan Sohmer

#72. If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

Theodore Dalrymple

#73. No," Blue said dangerously. "But sometimes bad things happen to good children.

Maggie Stiefvater

#74. I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Joel Osteen

#75. Reading is a tool no one can take away. A million bad things may happen in life and it'll still be with you, like a flashlight that never needs a battary. Reading can offer a crack of light on the blackest of nights.

Blue Balliett

#76. It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#77. I can make things move without touching them. I can make animals do what I want them to do, without training them. I can make bad things happen to people who annoy me. I can make them hurt if I want to.

J.K. Rowling

#78. Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.

Zac Efron

#79. The myriad of dysfunctions of the human community can be traced to this one thing: awe. When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.

Paul David Tripp

#80. There are many times when God's purpose and plan aren't clear. I may never know why some bad things happen, but I trust God does. That allows me to accept the bad as well as the good, even when I don't understand it.

Irene Hannon

#81. FACTS
Fact #1 Mean people suck.
Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people.
Fact #3 Good doesn't always prevail over evil.

Susane Colasanti

#82. The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.

Rainbow Rowell

#83. Well, the old Autumn didn't know anything about reality. The old Autumn was quite happy living in a childish make-believe world where bad things didn't happen and where you could make up whatever silly story you liked and tell yourself it was true.

Liz Kessler

#84. I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I have to frame friends for murder, and stab evil math teachers, and watch my best friend die. Again. We deal with it, then we move on.

Rachel Vincent

#85. It felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things

Rainbow Rowell

#86. You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

Lauren Bacall

#87. Constance always said good people need to stand up and do what's right, otherwise bad things will go unchallenged.

Matthew S. Williams

#88. In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

Park Chan-wook

#89. Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

Alain De Botton

#90. You're Romeo and I'm Juliet. If we get together, bad things will happen.

Priscilla West

#91.
what's really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it's a reflection on us as mothers. Because we believe we should be able to control life so perfectly that we can keep bad things from happening.

Judith Warner

#92. Life Is Fair I am sure you have heard the question "Why do bad things happen to good people?", but bad things happen to both good people and bad people equally. Good things happen to happy people.

Vivian Amis

#93. One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street ... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.

Jeff Cooper

#94. This is the thing about life I've never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go.

R.A. Nelson

#95. You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.

Eddie Murphy

#96. Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

Corey Taylor

#97. Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them.

Miguel Torres

#98. He used to say that sinning was not about the bad things you'd done and regretted but about the failure to do what you should have done. Especially for others.' She

Marguerite Poland

#99. For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

Graham Greene

#100. When you've said all of the bad things and all of the good things you haven't been saying, you will find that what you've really been withholding is, "I love you." You don't have to go looking for love when it is where you come from.

Werner Erhard