Top 34 Things Are Never As Bad As They Seem Quotes
#1. Things are never as bad as they seem.
Harper Lee
#2. The overwhelming condemnation makes it clear we have made enormous progress in teaching everyone that racism is bad. Where we seem to have dropped the ball ... is in teaching people what racism actually is ... which allows people to say incredibly racist things while insisting they would never.
Jon Stewart
#3. No matter what occurs in your life, no matter how bad the circumstances seem to be, you must never consider a dishonorable act as a viable alternative.
James Lee Burke
#4. Angry words didn't stop the world from turning round.
Kylie Scott
#5. Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
Carine Roitfeld
#6. I'm not much for cats. I'm terrified of mice. I've worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp.
Mary Ellen Mark
#8. The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.
Kate McGahan
#9. 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
#10. A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they've been around since the Stone Age.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#11. Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
Tony Hsieh
#12. Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
Sharon Salzberg
#13. No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess.
Heidi R. Kling
#17. I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart.
Corrie Ten Boom
#18. And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.
James Lipton
#19. As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.
Chris Hadfield
#20. Granted, sorting bad ideas from good isn't easy. (One trick that works for us is a cooling-off period. Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they're hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours. It is remarkable how stinky some ideas become after just one day in the sun.)
Anonymous
#21. The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate.
Timothy Snyder
#22. I am fascinated by that notion of people are never as they seem. And that doesn't make them good or bad. It's just we don't ever really show ourselves if we don't have to.
Joe Carnahan
#23. Capitulating when losing is an issue in war; capitulating when winning is an issue in love
S.E. Sever
#24. I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.
Larry Wilmore
#25. I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.
Lee Marvin
#26. Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad
C.J. Sansom
#27. I'm not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars - if something doesn't get onto my Google Calendar, I don't show up for it.
Ethan Zuckerman
#28. ALL THOSE GOOD COPS
YALL LOVE BRINGING UP WHEN YOU SAY
NOT ALL COPS ARE BAD
SEEM TO NEVER BE AROUND WHEN THEIR COMRADES ARE KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE
Chris Rock
#29. I had never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love doesn't seem like such a bad way to go.
Stephenie Meyer
#30. Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#31. Trust me no matter how horrible you feel or how bad things seem, there is always a way out. Suicide is never your only option.
Michael Thomas Ford
#32. If you're going to look back on
something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh
about it now.
Things are almost never as bad as they first seem.
Loosen up, girlfriend!
James Patterson
#33. Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.
Elmer Rice
#34. I imagine many of my fans share a similarly chaotic feeling in their own lives. This album 'ARTPOP was written to make sense of that chaos.
Lady Gaga