Coping With Bad News Quotes & Sayings

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. — Robert Smithson

Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. — Tullian Tchividjian

You're never quite sure, when you first get something if you really have a sense of what an opportunity it is. — Timothy Olyphant

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world. — Tamora Pierce

Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they're walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus. — Tullian Tchividjian

Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism. — Geoff Mulgan

He'll have nightmares about Kit diving for his knees," Hi added. "I'm pretty sure that was an illegal tackle. Chop block. Something. — Kathy Reichs

And at the thought of the punishments Youdi might inflict upon me I was seized by such a mighty fit of laughter that I shook, with mightly silent laughter and my features composed in their wonted sadness and calm. But my whole body shook, and even my legs, so that I had to lean against a tree, or against a bush, when the fit came on me standing, my umbrella being no longer sufficient to keep me from falling. Strange laughter truly, and no doubt misnamed. — Samuel Beckett

He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. — John R. Rice

I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped. — P. J. O'Rourke

In rereading, the irony is all dramatic. — DJK

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. — Raymond Aron

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. — Louis Auchincloss