quotes about Bad Things Happen

“Is there any time in your life when you do not feel the need for caffeine?" "Sure. Sometimes I'm asleep.”

“I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.”

“Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.”

“Russell Hoban created a tremendous marriage of characters and philosophy. The plots, the wind-up toy characters, the settings, they all work together to support basically a dark vision that the world is kind of a dump. And we all have to find our ways of surviving in it and of making it a better place. It's a world where we don't have much help, other than what we bring to the table. It's a world in which brotherly love counts more than anything else.”

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“I just do my best to react to chaos with love, and hopefully, other people will catch on and do things out of love too.”

“When I began as a model, everybody tried to remold me: I was too fat, too little, they tried to re-shape my teeth - I am very proud that I have stayed as I was.”

“Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.”

“No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.”

“[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.”

Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.17, Macmillan

“I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.”