Bad Things Quotes
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“Look into yourself, Darrow, and you’ll
realize that you are a good man who will have to do bad things."....
“See. That’s what I don’t get. If I am a good man, then why do I want to do bad
things?”
― Red Rising
realize that you are a good man who will have to do bad things."....
“See. That’s what I don’t get. If I am a good man, then why do I want to do bad
things?”
― Red Rising
“Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.”
― The Barbizon Diaries: A Meditation on Will, Purpose, and the Value Of Stories
― The Barbizon Diaries: A Meditation on Will, Purpose, and the Value Of Stories
“Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.”
― In Cold Blood
― In Cold Blood
“He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. "Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.”
― The Unbound
― The Unbound
“Life is not just about the good things or not just about the bad things. It is both. It all depends where you focus your attention.”
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“Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.”
― I Know It's Over
― I Know It's Over
“If you're looking for the bad things in life, then you will find it. If you search for the good things then it is what you find.”
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“No one ever remembers just a bad thing, they remember all around it, all that happened before it and after it, and of course, she told herself consolingly, one bad thing is probably enough.”
― The Bird's Nest
― The Bird's Nest
“Bad things happen all the time to good people who've done nothing to deserve them. Only you can choose how you handle it. Whether to press through and overcome it or succumb to self-pity.”
― Never Date a Doctor
― Never Date a Doctor
“Bad things happen, and sometimes a bad thing, later on down the line, turns out to not be bad at all, even though at the time you wouldn’t have known it.”
― The Salt & Pepper Gang: a memoir
― The Salt & Pepper Gang: a memoir
“You are the light of the world, and it is your duty to save the darkness.”
― Song of a Nature Lover
― Song of a Nature Lover
“I’m going to take you someplace dark and damp where good people don’t go. I’m going to introduce you to monsters. Real ones. I’m going to tell you stories about hurting people, and if you like those stories, it means you’re bad.”
― The Lesser Dead
― The Lesser Dead
“Aristotle urged people to seek “the golden mean” between extremes, “moderation in all things” (which we interpret as including moderation in the pursuit of moderation). But why should this golden mean in general be desirable? Clyde Coombs and George Avrunin (1977) have enunciated a very simple principle that implies moderation: “Good things satiate and bad things escalate.”
― Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making
― Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making
“No matter how bad things are, there’s always someone more fucked up than you.”
― Pieces of a Broken Mind
― Pieces of a Broken Mind
“I promise you, little one. In this fucked up world of ours, we're meant for each other. Always have been, always will be.”
― Bad Things
― Bad Things
“Bad things happened to you, but good things can happen, too. Look for the good things.”
― Tidal Flats
― Tidal Flats
“Bad things are actually good things for awakening! But the best thing is to be awakened before the bad things happen!”
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“When you start normalizing bad things. Bad things will start normalizing themselves happening to you.”
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“If good was easy, there wouldn’t be a word for bad.”
― Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
― Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“I don't suppose anybody really knows how bad a thing can be until it actually happens.”
― The Last Book in the Universe
― The Last Book in the Universe
“I focus my attention on the cloth and I can breathe evenly again until the panic dissipates. There's a velvet blue-green, reminding me of the lake at dusk. I find an amazing, fantastical fabric embroidered with moths and butterflies and ferns and flowers. I lift it up, and underneath is a bolt of beautiful fog-gray cloth that ripples like smoke. They're so very pretty. The kind of fabrics that princesses in fairy tales wear.
Of course, Taryn is right about stories. Bad things happen to those princesses. They are pricked with thorns, poisoned by apples, married to their own fathers. They have their hands cut off and their brothers turned in to swans, their loves chopped up and planted in basil pots. They vomit up diamonds. When they walk, it feels as though they're walking on knives.
They still manage to look nice.”
― The Cruel Prince
Of course, Taryn is right about stories. Bad things happen to those princesses. They are pricked with thorns, poisoned by apples, married to their own fathers. They have their hands cut off and their brothers turned in to swans, their loves chopped up and planted in basil pots. They vomit up diamonds. When they walk, it feels as though they're walking on knives.
They still manage to look nice.”
― The Cruel Prince
“Bad things always have consequences . No matter how good you are doing them. How good you are in hiding them or how good you are in hiding while doing them.”
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