Be Good Quotes

My life and my plan wasn't very good, but at least it was my plan. It got to that point that I just couldn't stand it any more.

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

Good people are not trained, they are found. If you are training too much, you may not have the right people.

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

I've always enjoyed interleague play. It gives you a chance to see different clubs, to go to different places. It gives you a good chance to see where you are, where you stand with other teams.

Good and evil lay side by side.

Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

I can't think of a man more worthy of the presidency then my good friend Sam Nunn.

Steven Spielberg is going to release a biopic about Abraham Lincoln next year. Right, that's a good way to honor Lincoln – by sending people to the theater.

Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice.

Today New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced that he's endorsing Mitt Romney for president. It's good news for Romney. I mean, you always want Chris Christie on your side. Unless you're in a canoe.

President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen.

A new poll found that 43 percent of Americans think President Obama is doing a good job at handling the BP oil spill. Of course, the same poll found that 43 percent of Americans hate pelicans.

Here's a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says that BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they're capturing it with ducks.

Hillary Clinton has a $350 billion plan that she says will make college more affordable. Which has to be better than my parents' plan to make college affordable: 'Be good at sports.'

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.

I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.

My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

"You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil.""Good will triumph over evil," said Richard. "Liar."

And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.

A lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out.

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.

The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

I don't really get excited about good things happening to me.

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

It makes me happy to talk about some fundamentally good things.

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.

I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

Looking good Matt, you look like a money.