The Good Quotes

What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?

I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.'

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

The stars don't have to be perfectly aligned for me to do a good job.

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

I would so much rather have a few of good friends than a lot of fake friends.

Every good thing depends on getting and keeping the power of the Holy Ghost in our lives. Everything depends on that.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger

I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

Take a good look at yourself before you criticise another, for what you see wrong in them, will also be a lesson for you.

Good work is good work wherever it is.

That's the beauty of music, art, and video games: forget about your worries for a few minutes; it shouldn't add to them or make you feel worried or sad: it should make you feel good.

My mom used to send me articles about how older virgins are considered good luck in Mexico.

There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.

It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth writing about.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

When I see two guys kissing, I'm like, how come I can't kiss one of those guys? They look like they're having a good time.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.

I've always been clever enough to surround myself with the best in whatever field I'm working in... Good people make you look good.

I have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar.

You do not have to feel good to do good.

That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

Mike Keenan has been responsible for creating a lot of good things for coaches, like mid-season job openings.

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitude.

Good students are good at all things.

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity.

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.

How rude for the created to tell the Creator "I wasn't worth it. You didn't do a good job when you made me. I wasn't worth dying for." You don't get a choice! He's the one who gets to decide.

...Take a half-hour a day to really appreciate the good things you have. And you will feel great. If you want to feel twice as great double that time!

My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

All young lovers, whoever you are, I hope your troubles are few. All my good wishes go with you tonight. I've been in love like you.