Top 1200 Bad Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. Companies are set up so that people judge each other on failure. I am not going to get fired if we have a bad year. Or a bad five years. I don’t have to worry about making things look good if they’re not. I can actually set up the company to create value.

He's got the whole bad-boy-in-need-of-redemption thing going on, but the catch is, most bad boys don't want redemption. They like being bad. They like the power they get from striking fear and panic into the hearts of mothers everywhere

If you make enough bad decisions, every once in a while things work out for you.

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

I think all kids are curious. They're drawn to the bad guy and they're drawn to things that are dark. It's not just simply a desire to be wicked. I think there are things that frighten us in life and, especially children, they want to understand and take it on or understand it so it frightens them less.

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

Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.

I am a guy who likes to put the bad things and difficult times behind me.

A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.

Whether good or bad things happen, music allows you to separate yourself from reality a bit.

A lot of things, whether it's Brexit, the U.S. election, things that are happening on Facebook Live, the way that Twitter in many cases was weaponized, obviously for good but then obviously for bad, for proxy. Governments who use it to troll and give voice to conspiracy theories, white supremacists, et cetera. I think that's not going away.

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

Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

Our military has been greatly weakened by a lot of bad decisions and other things.

When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.

We don't understand each other. That's why there are so many bad things happening; a lot of it has to do with not understanding.

The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us when they do.

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

I do feel in 2018 that pro wrestling has gone in such a different direction. Before, things were so black and white; now, it's shades of grey. It's not so much good guys and bad guys: there are people who are put in situations who do the right or wrong things, but people react to them like they are stars.

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

I'm really bad with trolls because I have a lot of really intense friends who are not necessarily doing things so legally. If I get trolled, [my friends will send me] an email with the person's Social Security number, phone number, pictures of his family, his business, his spouse. I see this person in his totality, and I feel so bad. I shouldn't have that power.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Of course, nobody loves bad comedy, but there's a lot of bad comedy out there.

I've never been impulsive. It's always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the circumstances change. Sometimes things get so complicated and so bad that your nature just doesn't matter anymore.

To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

Bad things written about me do bother me and affect me, but then I have learnt to take it in my stride. I have also learnt to keep quiet about certain things.

Language is the primary way we communicate with each other, and we have really strong feelings about what words mean, and about good language and bad. Those things are really based on sort of an agglutination of half-remembered rules from high school or college, and our own personal views on language and the things we grew up saying, the things we grew up being told not to say.

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate over bad situations. Infact, when we look at the Stanford prison studies, that we put good people in an evil place, and we saw who won. Well, the sad message in this, is in this case is the evil place won over the good people.

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

People are three-dimensional. They're not good or bad. They're not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things.

America promotes a lot of bad things, you know. Same-sex marriage, for example.

A recent study shows that standing at work for long periods of time is bad for you, after earlier research indicated that sitting for too long at work is bad for you. So really the only thing we know is, work is bad for you.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

To the extent that we can shine a light on the bad things being done, that's going to have a positive impact.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

You can't have bad things happening to characters simply for shock value; you need to provide context.

I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.

I'm just grateful to people who are willing to admit how bad things feel for them.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.

Every industry, there are rogues and bad actors. There could be rogues and bad actors in journalism. Rogues and bad actors in medicine. Rogues and bad actors in the legal community.

from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.

One bad day could turn into a bad year if you're not careful. Or, a bad rest of your life if you're not careful. Because of one day!

Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.

Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model.

...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

That competitive nature comes out when I feel like I'm playing bad and when things aren't going right.

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

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!

No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.

What is love? When you love somebody then I mean we all want good things to happen to ourselves and keep the bad things at bay. When you love somebody you want that as much for them if not more than you do for yourself.

Instead of fearing the unknown - all the bad that can happen - realize that good things can surprise you as well.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

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