The Good Quotes

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

Anger's not a good emotion.

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

All the world loves a good loser.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

Nice people are often not good people and good people are often not nice people.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

Something needn't be large to be good.

No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

'T is impious in a good man to be sad.

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

Love is priceless. And all I really want is a good night kiss. So if tears were diamonds, more valuable gold, then a fortune in the corners of my eyes I would hold.

I have great judgment. I have good judgment. I know what's going on.

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.