For Good Quotes

I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good to look at, and that's a beautiful thing.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

...you shouldn't hate something you don't know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

Long visits don't make for good friends.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.

Good times weaken belief.

No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

I don't have a favorite place to see art. I like to encounter it anywhere, museum, gallery, home, studio, street... I do prefer to see good art, when I see art, but it doesn't matter where I see it.

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.

I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.

[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.

sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.