“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
Come and Go Mad (p. 291)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)
“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
Michael Marshall Smith (1965) British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer
Source: The Lonely Dead (2004), Ch. 20
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVI: On Learning Wisdom in Old Age
Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
““He is a good person. He did a bad thing,” Leiderman told the judge.”
Jay Leiderman (1971) lawyer
As stated in, A Simple Phrase From a Sentencing Hearing in a Difficult High-Profile Case. http://jayleiderman.com/blog/jay-leiderman-quoted-part-9-a-simple-phrase-from-a-difficult-high-profile-case/
Variant: He is a good person. He did a bad thing.