Best 52 quotes in «bad news quotes» category

I Have Bad News and - No, Actually I Just Have Bad News

In my experience , big words ornament bad news.

I would forget it fain, But oh, it presses to my memory, Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners' minds.

It's strange how the worst day of your life often starts just like any other. You might even complain very quietly to yourself about its ordinariness. You might with for something more interesting to happen, something to back of your routine, and just when you think you can't bear the monotony any longer, something comes along that shatters your life to such degree. you with with every cell in your body that your day hadn't become so unordinary.

I need a kid like I need a bad heart. A pretty kid is a ticket to trouble... and I'm too old to ask for that. Shit, I haven't even booked Tommy the Face in two years. I'm turning into a jack-off idiot.

Mr. A calls me into his office and says he's got bad news and bad news, and which do I want first. I say the bad news.

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.

She looked as if she were about to burst into tears, but she was wonderful at catching the ball of her own mood in mid-air.

She was always left feeling like a murderer. Because the messenger becomes the murderer. Until the fatal words are spoken, the loved one concerned is still alive, waking, sleeping, going about his business, making telephone calls, writing letters, going for walks, breathing, seeing. It was the telling that killed.

My phone’s dead, and I have to find the microwave to read the time: 8:12. Only bad news comes this early.

Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away as a mere thing that had just happened, and get along with your life.

That set my ears buzzing. Why did Annabeth sound like she'd been crying?" "You okay, cuz?" She paused for a long time. "I will be. We... we got some bad news when we got out here.

The bad news is that yesterday sucked. The good news is that yesterday is gone. Today's a new day. Own it! Shape it! Live it!

The bad news is nothing lasts forever, The good news is nothing lasts forever.

The Bad News is that Devil is playng on all sides, The Good News is so is God

The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn't want to wake Colin's parents. They succeeded in staying quiet, in part because it felt like the air had been shocked out of him. Paradoxically, he felt as if his getting dumped was the only thing happening on the entire dark and silent planet, and also as if it weren't happening at all. He felt himself drifting away from the one-sided whispered conversation, wondering if maybe everything big and heartbreaking and incomprehensible is a paradox.

The human person cannot face up to a bad outcome, that's just the deal.

The man said that a portion of track just up into the mountain pass had been damaged by a rockslide early that morning, and they had shut down the whole system for maybe as long as the rest of the summer. The man shook his head, incredulous, disgusted, but also delighted in the way that people are often delighted by bad news, or the opportunity to discuss bad news that does not immediately affect them.

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

There’s more.” “Of course there is,” Brishen said flatly. It had started badly; it turned worse and hinted at becoming ruinous.

Things rarely go exactly as we expect, but in the long run, they work out well for those who love God. His plan is higher than ours.

There's good news and slightly less good news.

You had better not open that door.

What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope. - The Evil Eye

When the phone rings at 2.15am in the morning it's unlikely to be heralding something pleasant. What chance is there of its being good news? None. Only someone bad would ring at such an hour. Or someone with bad news.

The reality is that we will continue to hear negative information from many sources. It lies in our will to decide whether to discard them into the waste bin or record them into our brains!

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

Better to have bad news that's true than good news we made up

bad news travels faster than good.

Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

It's always bad news when you kill your date

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

Convert bad news to good news.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close.

A chill swept through the air, the sort of graveyard kiss promising bad news to follow.

Although my father was raised in the church, he wouldn't have prayed to God to spare him. He wouldn't have looked for alternative treatments or a guru or some faulty gene to blame. In my family, we have a long-standing habit of blocking out bad news, of trying to forget about it almost the moment it arrives.

Bad news has good legs.

Bad news is that you can control nothing but your thoughts. Good news is that with your thoughts you can control everything else.

Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window and you bounce off an awning, a car roof, and a pile of plastic garbage bags before you smash onto the pavement, you've got a pretty good chance of surviving.

Being the bearer of bad news is a terrible thing; sometimes you don't know if you'll have the words, the delicacy,the strength. You think of the person on the other side: how you're about to bring their world crashing down with a single phone call and deep inside them they'll hate you because their sorrow will just be searching for someone to blame. Then what do you say? That you're sorry? Sorry for what? They'll hate you even more because they'll know you're not sorry like they are. They'll know you haven't been destroyed like they have.

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past.

We are not important to the universe. That's the bad news.

You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.