The Good Quotes

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

I can take my wife out for a lovely evening this Friday, which is a to do. But being a good husband is not an event; it needs to be part of my nature—my character, or who I am.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life - then nothing would be unattainable by us.

People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards.

A comeback is possible so let's hope it's a good day for us. Arsenal is a very fast team but we can get through.

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

But normally when you talk to yourself [on court] you say; 'I love you, you're a good guy, but don't miss next time, okay.'

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

Since seeing Max Kirsten for insomnia - I'm finally achieving a good night's sleep, its just wonderful. He's my new secret weapon!

Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.