The Good Quotes

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your mother, with your kids. These are what stay in your mind.

Hiking is really great for centering; you get to be out in nature and although sometimes it seems like hell when you're getting up that mountain, it always feels good when you're done.

The truth I know for sure is that if something feels good and makes you happy on the inside, you're probably moving in the right direction.

If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?

For the most part, however, Lady in the Water comes across as a movie that's too bad to be good, and not bad enough to be so bad that it's good.

Dying is such a waste of good health.

We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.

It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

Never give up, laugh a lot. Be good to others.

Being an Arsenal fan, at the end of every season I say the same thing: we've got a good team, a young team, hopefully, we'll be in the running for the league title next season.

I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a while I got a little tired of the acting school atmosphere.

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.

Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.

A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.

How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?

What, eBay isn't good enough for us?

There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

It's good news that he is proposing to restore budget cuts that he made, but the reality is that he is still proposing a 4.5 percent increase in tuition that's above inflation.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

Wherever the good work is I'll go.

JPMorgan is a very good franchise. And the way you should look at a franchise, a business, is from the standpoint of the customers.

I think normalization is a good thing.

I have a good time watching Nick At Night with the old shows on there. I love to see I Love Lucy, although I've seen them many, many times. I think it's a security factor, it's like your blanket.

All good things come to an end. All bad things go on forever.

I'm not used to be the adult. I'm not very good at being the adult. To some regard, I wanted to just hang out and joke around, like I would normally, but I had to try to find the movie to shoot.

The bad guys are not typical, they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.