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  • I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears. -- Nancy Lublin
  • Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that. -- Jalen Rose
  • I get really excited about collaborating because by the end of the day you have something that you never thought you'd have. I was really happy about writing "Bad News" and a bunch of other stuff on the record that came out so well. -- Orianthi
  • Convert bad news to good news. -- Bill Gates
  • None love the messenger who brings bad news. -- Sophocles
  • It's always bad news when you kill your date -- Jay Leno
  • Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age. -- Colin Powell
  • He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht
  • Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses. -- Tracy Morgan
  • In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. -- James Surowiecki
  • The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier. -- Javier Bardem
  • The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. -- Daniel Kahneman
  • I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it. -- Les Dawson
  • In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo. -- Michael Leunig
  • The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off. -- Bob Hope
  • Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door. -- Indra Devi
  • Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. -- Bill Gates
  • The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage. -- Jessica Savitch
  • The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it. -- Donald Rumsfeld
  • The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. -- Ted Nelson
  • You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. -- Thomas J. Watson
  • Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel. -- David Letterman
  • The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news. -- Peter McWilliams
  • We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
  • In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself. -- Al Franken
  • Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency. -- Steven Sinofsky
  • More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions. -- Simon Sinek
  • I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news, is priceless. -- Jenna Morasca
  • One thing that God revealed to me is that we as Christians are going to have to get a portion of the media so that we can present the good news on a major basis the way that they're presenting the bad news on a major basis. -- Reggie White
  • In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite - shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes on. -- Eric Kandel
  • Don't sell on bad news. -- Walter Schloss
  • The real news is bad news. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • Bad news is just an excuse. -- Neil Young
  • bad news travels faster than good. -- Catherine the Great
  • Self knowledge is always bad news. -- John Barth
  • Nobody likes the bringer of bad news. -- Sophocles
  • The nature of bad news affects the teller. -- William Shakespeare
  • Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. -- Sophocles
  • To the old, the new is usually bad news. -- Eric Hoffer
  • We cannot make good news out of bad practice. -- Edward R. Murrow
  • I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories. -- Richard Engel
  • I don't look for good-news stories or bad-news stories. -- Richard Engel
  • Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap. -- Augusten Burroughs
  • People love to hear good news about their bad habits. -- John A. McDougall
  • Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route. -- Doug Larson
  • Ladies and Gentleman, I'm afraid I've got some BAD NEWS. -- Wade Barrett
  • The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more. -- R. Lee Ermey
  • Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck. -- Grant Cardone
  • Being inundated with constant "bad" news from the media doesn't help. -- Brenda Strong
  • [The rain] descends with the enthusiasm of someone breaking bad news -- H. V. Morton
  • Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement. -- Bill Gates
  • Oxytocin is a Teflon hormone - bad news rolls off it. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
  • We are not important to the universe. That's the bad news. -- Sean M. Carroll
  • Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else -- John Green
  • If your news must be bad, tell it soberly and promptly. -- Henry Howarth Bashford
  • I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people. -- Jonah Lomu
  • Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
  • Good news is, I'm still alive. Bad news is, Bitches be crazy. -- Ksenia Solo as Kenzi
  • Bad news on the doorstep;I couldnâ??t take one more step -- Don McLean
  • If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine. -- J.J. Cale
  • The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news. -- R. C. Sproul
  • Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news. -- William Shakespeare
  • The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close. -- Richard Codey
  • Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear. -- Peter Diamandis
  • You shall not be afraid to hear bad news. God will strengthen you. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past. -- Seth Klarman
  • I live in Palm Beach, where no one wants to hear bad news. -- Jeff Greene
  • Better to have bad news that's true than good news we made up -- Eric Ries
  • You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind. -- Jonathan Dee
  • I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The bad news is nothing lasts forever,The good news is nothing lasts forever. -- J. Cole
  • When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"? -- John Gallagher, Jr.
  • Good news is, we're annoying him. Bad news is, we're all going to die painfully. -- Brandy Nacole
  • Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture. -- Mickey Spillane
  • You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts. -- Harvey Mackay
  • The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing. -- Kerry Packer
  • The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart. -- Sarah Silverman
  • Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news? -- Cindy Gerard
  • Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit. -- Philip K. Dick
  • influence an event by bad news is much more quick when it is out of any possibilities -- lity munshi
  • Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000. -- Kenneth Fisher
  • The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting. -- Steven Novella
  • Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems. -- Margaret Heffernan
  • [...]you know what they say about messengers, right"? Excuse me?" Too much bad news will get you shot."[...] -- J.R. Ward
  • Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops. -- Joe Scarborough
  • Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population. -- Ray Davies
  • There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair. -- Donella Meadows
  • If you have to release bad news to the public, it would help if you are not ugly. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news. -- Freeman Dyson
  • The good news is, President Obama was born in America. The bad news is, so was Donald Trump. -- Jay Leno
  • The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy. -- Rich Lowry
  • The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude. -- Robert H. Schuller
  • Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck's puff pastries. -- Billy Crystal
  • So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long. -- George Saunders
  • Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news. -- Ken Wilber
  • The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older. -- Johnny Carson
  • The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early. -- Marc Andreessen
  • The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. -- Bill Gates
  • Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start. -- John C. Maxwell
  • There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news. -- Kim Edwards
  • Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad. -- Zadie Smith
  • I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that. -- Steven Moffat
  • In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time. -- Alice Stewart
  • The good news is that Jesus is praying for us. The bad news is that we are going to need it! -- John Wimber
  • The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people. -- Tullian Tchividjian
  • I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health. -- Tom Petty
  • Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. -- Douglas Adams
  • Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important. -- Domhnall Gleeson
  • While the good news of the gospel may not appeal to everyone, the bad news of the gospel still applies to everyone. -- Matt Chandler
  • We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours. -- David Letterman
  • Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped. -- Stuart Rothenberg
  • If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation -- Norman Cousins
  • Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action. -- Anna Lappe
  • Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. -- Tullian Tchividjian
  • Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor. -- Clint Eastwood
  • The good news doesn't make any sense unless you know what the bad news is first, and the bad news goes pretty deep. -- Bill Mallonee
  • I've gotten to the point I won't even watch the 11 o'clock news. You just walk away from it thinking how bad everything is. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground. -- Chogyam Trungpa
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