There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.
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Related ...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and adm... LOIS LOWRY Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft th... KRISTEN SCHAAL Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this ... ANDREA CORR "What does it mean if i'm afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?" "No, it doesn't... C. JOYBELL C. We just had a bad day. It happens sometimes, in bowling. AL MOSS One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do ... LEMONY SNICKET I was never forced to go to church, and there is a lot of beauty in Christianity that I take in my l... EMILY SALIERS Secularization—that is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practice... MICHAEL S. HORTON The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apath... AMISH TRIPATHI We've had a couple of serious crimes out there. Other than that, it's not as bad as other neighborho... CAPT. LESTER BONEY We are taking very active measures to ensure that we do not have any more bad apples in that departm... KOFI ANNAN In a life, in any life, bad things happen. Many good things happen, of course, we know what they are... ROBERT GOOLRICK Sometimes in life God separates us from each other, don't be mad when this happens. He knows a bad r... NERRYMIAH SCIPIO Being from the South, there isn't really a lot of great theater. You get musicals and Neil Simon pla... WES BENTLEY TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and t... TOM PETTY I want to make it clear this does not absolve the players for their part in this season. In no way d... DAVE NONIS There are so many things that the bus driver has no control of. We just happen to be at the wrong pl... SONNY WITT I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL It's not that bad at all. I could have kept on going. But it's just taking a precaution before it ge... JAVON WALKER There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith... ERIC BUTTERWORTH We just couldn't stop the bleeding. We've not had a bad inning, and we had a bad inning. In softball... JEFF HULSE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Good and bad are not of different kinds but only vary in degree; both vary in quantity not in qualit... THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not qu... IAN HACKING Right now the goalkeeper position, which I thought was going to be a strong position for us is not d... GLENN MCANINCH I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE When we want something that bad, it's easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really wan... BOB GOFF What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but withou... MARTHA BECK People are often wary of reading or watching anything in the horror genre because in their minds, it... REBECCA MCNUTT But the sad truth is that the truth is sad, and that what you want does not matter. A series of unfo... LEMONY SNICKET No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives... CARRIE FISHER For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. S... CARSON MCCULLERS Of what good, is a truth that may harm someone and does no good to anyone?Of what bad, is a lie that... ANUROOP TYAGI Of what good, is a truth that may harm someone and does no good to anyone?
Of what bad, is a lie tha... ANUROOP TYAGI What happens to other people does not necessarily will happen to you. DANIEL MELGAçO For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN It was just a combination of bad shots that turned out to be really bad, and just a lot of wasted st... MICHELLE WIE There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things. COLLEEN HOOVER You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. LAUREN BACALL Seagull you fly against the horizon
Into a misty morning sun
Seagull you must have known
The shape o... MEMBERS OF BAD COMPANY People look at animal control officers as being big bad people. To me this shows them taking care of... DEBORAH FRANKLIN I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because ... J. C. WATTS I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live... BEHATI PRINSLOO In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't w... CARL SANDBURG There is bad in good and there is no good in bad. ZAMAN ALI Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political ... MARK TWAIN It wasn't as bad as you would have thought ... Sometimes things went on that wouldn't happen in othe... KYLE COOK With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The ... FRANCIS ARINZE They want people so bad that they're willing to bring you in for a lot of money. DANIEL LOPUS Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I have great respect for the LDS church - their commitment to family and taking care of each other i... KYRSTEN SINEMA I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ... MICHAEL MOORCOCK I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood. STEVE SCHIRRIPA In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'l... RUTH REICHL We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Little towns tend to do a very bad job in these things. They tend to be driven by politics rather th... GARY EDINGER The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness ra... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR It was a lot of constant eating in college, ... I'm growing into my body more, so it's not as bad. I... KRISTIN HAYNIE A well constructed plot should, therefore, be single in its issue, rather than double as some mainta... ARISTOTLE There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think... NATHANIEL KAHN Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhausti... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is no shame in feeling bad about having to kill. The shame comes when you no longer care. ROBYN WIDEMAN A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes... JAMES PATTERSON Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because t... JENNY LAWSON When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything othe... JOHNNY DEPP The problem with people today, is, they have religions but they have no spirituality. They go to chu... C. JOYBELL C. It really did, and that's the thing I'm so disappointed about. We got nine hits in that first game a... BOOMER WALKER Everybody thought that screen time was bad for vision. Well, it happens that spending a lot of time ... DAPHNE BAVELIER Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist,... BELL HOOKS Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is no... SHERRILYN KENYON You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their f... KAZUO ISHIGURO I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are. WILLIAM FAULKNER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. We've got the fire. That's what happens when you want it that bad. NATE JANES I am but a message in a world full of messengers NICHOLAS JOHNSON Stocks have priced in a lot of good news right now and you're seeing that in effect. Good news is ba... PETER GREEN Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it. J. K. SIMMONS What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad h... C. JOYBELL C. My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-... DAVID SHIELDS I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause ... BILLY PORTER Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local... ADAM COHEN It’s not about optimism, pessimism or realism. It’s not about thinking nothing bad will ever hap... BROWNELL LANDRUM How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. ALAIN DE BOTTON There are a lot of church-based people who still hold to the idea that the Democrats are only about ... BUD BRANNON I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be... FEMALE IMAGINATION I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything t... MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI We can't afford to rely solely on being better conditioned than our opponents. There are other facet... JOE HORVATH It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. J.D. SALINGER A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space t... POPE BENEDICT XVI A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space t... JOSEPH RATZINGER "What does it mean if you tried to get somewhere, and you didn't?" "Like what?" "Like if you were... C. JOYBELL C. There are companies that tried to do that in the past and got a lot of bad public exposure. BRENT HIEGGELKE is a signal of things to come rather than a bad thing itself. That's what is so troubling. LEILA AHMED I believe in civility. But it is not a requirement of civility to pretend there is no war. J. BUDZISZEWSKI No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I ... JUDAH SMITH Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of ... KAREN ALLEN When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, ... DAVID MILCH You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is ... LAZ ALONSO No thanks; I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that... SAMANTHA VAN LEER
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NEIL GAIMAN It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning,... NEIL GAIMAN But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it? NEIL GAIMAN How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I s... NEIL GAIMAN Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave. NEIL GAIMAN I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev... NEIL GAIMAN I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. NEIL GAIMAN You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen. NEIL GAIMAN I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody... NEIL GAIMAN You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not. NEIL GAIMAN What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it�... NEIL GAIMAN I’m not happy about any of this,” said Thor. “I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relie... NEIL GAIMAN Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa... NEIL GAIMAN Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki�... NEIL GAIMAN You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ... NEIL GAIMAN Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Fac... NEIL GAIMAN Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken. NEIL GAIMAN I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll m... NEIL GAIMAN The enemy of idealism is zealotry. NEIL KINNOCK Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission. NEIL KENDALL New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it. NEIL SIMON If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. NEIL PEART Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. JOHN NEIL It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut... NEIL ARMSTRONG We have no proof, but if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we h... NEIL ARMSTRONG That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. NEIL ARMSTRONG For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you ... NEIL GERSHENFELD Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. NEIL ARMSTRONG For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best... NEIL ASCHERSON I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to us... NEIL ARMSTRONG Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little ... NEIL ARMSTRONG