The Good Quotes

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

Every so often, let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense.

Life is good, without it we'd all be dead.

I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

Good-looking people are always looking for other good-looking people.

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.

We're showing a lot of the good signs you need for a good team, so I have high hopes.

Not every job is a good job.

Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

He who has good health is young.

If it's sin, that's good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.

Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.

God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.

Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.

When I was seventeen I drank some very good beer I drank some very good beer I purchased With a fake ID My name was Brian McGee I stayed up listening to Queen When I was seventeen

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.

Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.

Sepp Blatter and all of them lot Mr Platini I know he was a good player but he aint very good at what he does, I don’t think. I think he’s useless you can quote me on that.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.