“Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.”
Source: A Woman of Independent Means
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Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey1
American journalist and playwright 1938Related quotes
“One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.”
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“Just being Tan-Tan, sometimes good, sometimes bad, mostly just getting by like everybody else.”
Nalo Hopkinson book Midnight Robber
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“Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.”
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
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“They haven’t learned that being penitent sometimes does no good at all.”
Sheri S. Tepper book Grass
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Ashoka (-304–-232 BC) Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty
Edicts of Ashoka (c. 257 BC)
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“Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Variant: Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
As quoted in Seven Words to the Cross (1979) by Ellsworth Kalas, page 93
Context: Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.