Be Good Quotes

My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life—to stay fit and feel good.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

I like to dress for my shape - I think it's important for women to do that generally - it makes me feel good.

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

I need to be happy. I need to set that example for my daughter so that she goes into something she loves, not because other people want her to do something. It's a good feeling, it's freeing.

Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.

People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.

Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's something wrong with me. Something's wrong with my conscience.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.

I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.

Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you." Leo

Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.

Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.

I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.

I've got really good people around me, and I feel really blessed to get to do everything I get to do, so to me it's a joy.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

It was a very good experience. It wasnt just to make a movie, it was my life. I was employed at The Lord of the Rings for a year and a half.

Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

I've got a good life, and I don't think anything can rock that anymore.

Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing.

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out.

Success alone brings expectations. I think that people expect a certain thing from Lloyd - that's music that makes them feel good about their day, even when they're havin' a bad one.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.

It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you.

I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

My native land, good night!

Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

I'm no good at being good.