The Good Quotes

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

Surround yourself with good people that keep you grounded, work hard, and be patient.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

I enjoy any type of physical transformation. I enjoy working with the hair and makeup department and I enjoy watching people be very good at their jobs.

I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes.

Feeling good is the primary intention

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.

Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture finished and put inside boxes.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

If you aren’t really careful, 'The Good Enough' can become the enemy of 'The Best.'

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

Business must be a force for good in the world.

Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.

I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms.

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.

Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on.

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day.

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.

Bear good fortune modestly.

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

It feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself.

The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

Having a beard is a good way to make your face more susceptible to velcro.

You can only do good if you feel good.

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.