Be Good Quotes

I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.

As a fairly objective judgment, I do think that my plays as they come out are better than most other things that are put on the same year. But that doesn't make them very good necessarily.

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.

I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.

It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.

The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.

Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

I want to study, to write to live and have a good time.

Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.

It feels kind of good to be [on Sundance]. There is a sense of unification and community and voices rising together, and that all feels good.

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.

You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.

Change can be good. It just depends on what we make of it.

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

He grinned, though his face was strained. “That’s it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good.

Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.

I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me.

All roads that lead to God are good.

Have you seen the deer heads on the walls of bars, the ones wearing party hats, sunglasses and streamers? I feel sorry for them because obviously they were at a party having a good time.

Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not a good actor.

I always worry when someone's a good golfer. It's like you shouldn't have time to be good at anything. You should just be a politician and you shouldn't have time to practice golf.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?" I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)

You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.

When I laugh hard, sometimes I wet my pants, but I'm always relieved because that means I'm having a good time.

It's just mind-blowingly awesome. I apologize, and I wish I was more articulate, but it's hard to be articulate when your mind's blown-but in a very good way.

I love to relax. It's my favorite thing in the world. I am very good at being like a grandma and staying in and watching Game of Thrones or a movie. I think I could do that every night.

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.