The Good Quotes

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

I am having a good time doing nothing.

People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.

I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

Of capital importance is to have a good diet and exercise a lot.

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.