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Quotes About Bad news

The bad News is that everyone is a potential victim but the good news is that everyone is a potential solution, sensitise the masses to sanitize keep distance and quarantine - Bobi Wine on Corona Virus
~ Bobi Wine
The newspapers continue to bring bad news from China. I do not trust news which comes indirectly, and from afar at that, but - Do you remember that old tale of the woman who gave birth to an elephant? When the truth was discovered, it appeared that the midwife had said the child's nose looked a bit long . . . still, I worry.
~ Botan
I've just had very bad news." "What's the good news inside it? There's always good news wrapped up in bad news." "Jesus God, I don't know." "But there is." "That's ludicrously optimistic." Lelia said, "You'll have to use smaller words, you're in Clare now." Ronan
~ Frank Delaney
But bad news came at night, as if the sun were already in mourning.
~ Karen White
Really,' she exclaimed, stumping into the kitchen and plonking herself down on the nearest chair, 'this place is getting worse than Nightmare Abbey. Whatever next?' A grammatical purist might have wondered why Miss Bentley hadn't said 'whoever' rather than 'whatever' but the former headteacher belonged to the Superintendent Leeyes school of taking bad news as a personal affront rather than as an occasion for sympathy for the victim.
~ Catherine Aird
Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.
~ J. M. Coetzee
A more plausible explanation is that we are drawn to surprising news, and surprising news is more often bad than good.
~ Tim Harford
She touched his arm, making his heart skitter. It was never a good sign when they touched you. He had seen far too many television hospital dramas to imagine what was going to come next: the lowered voice, the steady gaze, the bad news.
~ Caroline Leavitt
The husband's been pacing the floor for hours by now. Let's go give him the bad news." "I hate this part," Peabody murmured. "When you don't, it's time to find another line of work.
~ J.D. Robb
you know what they say about messengers, right? Excuse me? Too much bad news will get you shot.[...]
~ J.R. Ward
you know what they say about messengers, right? Excuse me? Too much bad news will get you shot.
~ J.R. Ward
That's the bad news." "Okay, and what is the good news?" "All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days," she said, deadpan.
~ Neal Stephenson
Doctor: I have some good news and some bad news. Patient: What's the good news? Doctor: The tests you took showed that you have twenty-four hours to live. Patient:That's the good news? What's the bad news? Doctor: I forgot to call you yesterday.
~ Thomas Cathcart
The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
~ R. Lee Ermey
A piece of bad news wrapped in a protein coat.
~ Nick Lane
Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I dont think people are wrong to be concerned about the world's intentions toward them. There's a lot of bad news out there and some of it is coming to your house. Drowning
~ Cormac McCarthy
That night after returning from the meeting I got further bad news. David told me he was resigning to go to England. He had met an attractive young British guest at the lodge, whom I noticed had kept extending her stay.
~ Lawrence Anthony
As I ran water to wash my hands, my earbud fell out of my ear and went down the drain. Crap! I hauled my cellphone out of my bag and texted Ranger. Bad news. Your earbud just went down the drain in the ladies room. It was only a matter of time , he textd back.
~ Janet Evanovich
Researchers use alloxan in lab rats to induce diabetes. That's right—it's used to produce diabetes. This is bad news if you eat anything white or "enriched.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.
~ Thomas Friedman
The word 'personal' is one of my aversions. Personal loan. Personal hygiene. Personal safety. It's only a way of wrapping up bad news that you're in debt, or dirty, or likely to be mugged.
~ Helen Dunmore
Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts.
~ Jeremy Grantham
If you're trying to find the key to the universe," Eddie said to me once, "I have bad news and I have good news. The bad news is, there is no key to the universe. The good news is, it's been left unlocked.
~ Unknown