Bad Things Quotes

They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.

You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.

When people don't comply, things - bad things will happen afterwards.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.

Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.

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.

I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things.

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

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press.

You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

You can't say there shouldn't be marketing and (that) marketing is a bad thing.

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

We think abortion is a bad thing.

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people.

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

Money itch is a bad thing. I never had that trouble.

One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

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.

I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too.

You know, sometimes you have to remember the bad things so that you can learn from them.

Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.

I've got to live my life. Bad things happen. I can't be sitting here worrying about it.

Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human.