“Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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“What we offer is good enough. It's like my haircut: It ain't pretty, but it's good enough.”
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“You know the good ole days weren't always good,
And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.”
Keeping the Faith.
Song lyrics, An Innocent Man (1983)
(Ain't That) Good News
Song lyrics, Ain't That Good News (1964)
Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 4, p. 72
The Language of the Night (1979)
Context: I have never found anywhere, in the domain of art, that you don't have to walk to. (There is quite an array of jets, buses and hacks which you can ride to Success; but that is a different destination.) It is a pretty wild country. There are, of course, roads. Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.
“Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'.”
Source: The Quick and the Dead (1973), Ch. 5; the statement here wrongly attributed by a character in the story to a Quaker, who are generally pacifists, is actually one usually attributed to the Puritan, Oliver Cromwell.
Context: Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said,"Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry."
“A beautiful 35-year old ain't as good-looking as an ugly 19-year old.”
September 24, 2008
The Opie and Anthony Radio show
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)
Context: Morality is thus the relation of actions to the autonomy of the will, that is, to a possible giving of universal law through its maxims. An action that can coexist with the autonomy of the will is permitted; one that does not accord with it is forbidden. A will whose maxims necessarily harmonize with the laws of autonomy is a holy, absolutely good will. The dependence upon the principle of autonomy of a will that is not absolutely good (moral necessitation) is obligation. This, accordingly, cannot be attributed to a holy being. The objective of an action from obligation is called duty.