People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things
Cormac McCarthy
Related People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it. GORDON STRACHAN Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission. CORMAC MCCARTHY You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as t... JANE AUSTEN There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That... JODI PICOULT People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad. RALPH WALDO EMERSON People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad. RALPH WALDO EMERSON People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad. RALPH WALDO EMERSON They all did a tremendous job, I can't say enough about them for what they did. They deserve all the... CHRIS HAMILTON People in love feel that way all the time, like they don't know what they've done to deserve each ot... MARISA DE LOS SANTOS They get the attention they deserve. They were great last year. But we get the attention we deserve.... JEFF RYAN But this too is true: stories can save us. TIM O'BRIEN Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy on... OPRAH WINFREY Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ d... PATRICK NESS Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and h... H. L. MENCKEN Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and ha... H. L. MENCKEN Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and ha... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and ha... H.L. MENCKEN I do believe people can pay for their behavior. Once they've done that they deserve the opportunity ... DAVID DONAHUE Bad presidents don't deserve holidays. They deserve scorn. BEN SHAPIRO I wanted to say something to make her pain go away and make everything better. But, I realized that ... MACKENZIE HERBERT They do a lot of things well. Teams that work hard and don't give up, they deserve to keep fighting. CASSANDRA YANCY Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about... FRED KOREMATSU …he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a... TIM O'BRIEN Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve. THE KINKS Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it j... LAINI TAYLOR God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you ma... JIM BUTCHER They thoroughly deserve it... the way they've done, what they've done in that totally independent sp... NEIL FINN I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done. TURCOIS OMINEK The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do... TED NELSON In a life, in any life, bad things happen. Many good things happen, of course, we know what they are... ROBERT GOOLRICK Write bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a pie... ARAB PROVERB Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a... ARABIC PROVERB Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a... ARABIC PARABLE New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to... CHRISTINE QUINN So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove t... WALLY LAMB I think what people like about my channel is that I am not perfect. I always point to my pimple, my ... LILLY SINGH The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Never dream about lesser things, because you deserve the best! DR. VINOD B. NAIR Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those wh... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA As soon as the time machine is invented, all religious people should be sent back in time, where the... JASON MENEZES The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real qu... BRYAN STEVENSON Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they li... LAURA SCHLESSINGER People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what the... ERIC DAVIS I think that our girl's proved that they deserve their state ranking (seventh). They now know what t... DEAN FISCHER Reasons... questions... what they have in common? - All get finded in the hard way. DEYTH BANGER The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from... PAULO COELHO They will explain what happened and what effect it had on the river. They are usually very good abou... LARRY CARPENTER They deserve the best we've got to give them. BARBARA MCDONNELL Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the ... FRANCIS OF ASSISI They had great defensive pressure. As much as we wanted to cover the three and their shooters, they ... ALEX SPENCE People would worry less about what others think of them if they only realised how seldom they do. UNKNOWN Families of the 'disappeared' deserve answers immediately to their repeated demands for information ... KATE ALLEN Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevita... GEORGE PACKER may deserve it, of course they may for doing something heinous, they don't deserve to live in civili... JOSEF STALIN Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more comp... CAITLYN JENNER It's impossible to know why some people don't get the recognition that they deserve. GRAHAM NASH Kids today are very bright. They know bad things happen, and they need to know that this man who has... JOAN GREENE They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can ... CAROLINE DHAVERNAS White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for ... PAUL MOONEY One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes. MIGUEL When things aren't going well, you have to bring youth in because the youngsters have a complete lac... ROD MARSH [...] you're willing to look past things and to give people second chances. But the thing is, Rose, ... REBECCA SERLE And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do... WILL ROGERS But if all good things come to an end
What happens to the bad things?
Do they turn into good memorie... NATALIE NOVAK Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function a... PETER THIEL When people think they deserve what they have not worked for, it appeals to the lower nature of man. SUNDAY ADELAJA Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that no... CRAIG BRUCE This is a team with heart that does all the little things necessary to win. They are fundamentally s... BROCK KNIGHT Things are seldom what they seem. W. S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem. WILLIAM S. GILBERT Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." But do they deserve fo... ALEXANDER JACKSON Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they thi... PAUL GREENGRASS People don't always get what they deserve in this world. LEMONY SNICKET Our enemy doesn't deserve our sympathy, ... but this isn't about who they are. This is about who we ... JOHN MCCAIN Women deserve to know that. Whatever their decision, they need to know what the data is. DR. CATHY SPONG I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they ... CHRISTINE QUINN We dismiss them with the contempt they deserve. LUPHUMZO KEBENI Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than t... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don'... FRANK ROBINSON There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the res... JOHN EDWARDS What we've always said is that every child here is going to be treated with unconditional positive r... DAN GALLAGHER With their speed they can create problems and make things happen. But then crazy things start to hap... DENISE NUGENT You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people d... LAINI TAYLOR I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidenta... HELEN MIRREN I get letters from people saying one of the things they like best about what I've done since ... ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY Start focusing your attention on the people that God puts you with, even if they hate you, even if t... PASTOR ADELAJA SUNDAY I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people. They didn't want to see good things... DAVID CARUSO They deserve it. The way they play, you can't say that they don't. TONY BRUCE I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. ... LUIS WALTER ALVAREZ When I started to mention to people who know about such things, 'I'm doing this game, 'P... STEPHEN MERCHANT One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about ... ZACK DE LA ROCHA [They were] talking about life and death and that things happen for a reason. DRAME ABDOULAYA Our troops deserve nothing less than the best possible protection. They need to know that not only i... DUNCAN HUNTER Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. ... MARY OLIVER What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. MARGARET MEAD It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ERROL FLYNN For me, the people who doubt me only fuel me to prove them wrong. I want to prove to them that I am ... REY MYSTERIO Some people are like a thermometer. If their environment is negative, they are negative. If bad thin... CAMERON C. TAYLOR
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CORMAC MCCARTHY He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula... CORMAC MCCARTHY They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin... CORMAC MCCARTHY You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?' 'Yeah. But you remember some ... CORMAC MCCARTHY When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. CORMAC MCCARTHY The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ... CORMAC MCCARTHY A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi... CORMAC MCCARTHY He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an... CORMAC MCCARTHY The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ... CORMAC BUTLER Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner. CORMAC BUTLER In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ... CORMAC BUTLER Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. JOHN MCCARTHY Compassion is contempt with a human face. JOHN MCCARTHY Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull. KEVIN MCCARTHY Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics. MELISSA MCCARTHY To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh... MELISSA MCCARTHY As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work. KEVIN MCCARTHY I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo... KEVIN MCCARTHY Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. JOHN MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t... EUGENE MCCARTHY One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ... EUGENE MCCARTHY In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e... MARY MCCARTHY To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol... MARY MCCARTHY ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag... MARY MCCARTHY Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? CHARLIE MCCARTHY We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. MARY MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ... ALICE MCCARTHY The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go... ALICE MCCARTHY They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ... ALICE MCCARTHY I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin... ALICE MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã... ALICE MCCARTHY Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ... ERIN MCCARTHY Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?” “Because I love you. Because ... ERIN MCCARTHY The happy ending is our national belief. MARY MCCARTHY Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy. JOE MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. CHARLIE MCCARTHY Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. MARY MCCARTHY A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito... MARY MCCARTHY