Quotes about goodness

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“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”

“Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.”

“Honestly," she sighed, "I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other."
I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round," I said.”

“I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force--a wild pain and decay--also accompanies everything.”

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”

“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he, who is cruel to living creatures, cannot be a good man. Moreover, this compassion manifestly flows from the same source whence arise the virtues of justice and loving-kindness towards men.”

“Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.”

“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.”

“Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.”

“I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol.
"That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.”

“I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.”

“Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better”

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

“Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.”

“There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a good religion.”

“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”

“And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be
living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got
you invited to the very best social occasions.”

“O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.”

“The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.”

“The good life doesn't knock on the door.
Joy is a job.”

“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”

“As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.”

“Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.”

“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”

“What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.”

“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”

“But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.”

“So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all.”

“Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.”

“It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.”

“Good heavens! how marriage ruins a man! It's as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”

“I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”

“I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.”

“Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, "See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk."”

“every good artist paints what he is”

“Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”

“Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."
"I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.”

“I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.”

“To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.”

“Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company.”

“So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.”

“Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me.”

“At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.”

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

“I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.”

“If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.”

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”

“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”

“Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face.”

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art.”

“If you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have you noticed that? I'd like to find the bastard that thought that one up.”

“A thousand times good night. A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

“When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.”

“The universe was good because he was in it.”

“Something must be wrong with me to stop a good girl-on-girl fight”

“Between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference: the one takes account only of the visible effect; the other takes account of both the effects which are seen and those which it is necessary to foresee.”

“Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.”

“Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.”

“I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said.
I KNOW.
“I tried to live a good life. Does that help?”
THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE… SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION… YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN.”

“That man is such a damn turd monkey."
"Grandma!" I said.
"Oh, Zoeybird, did I call your mother's husband a damn turd monkey out loud?"
"Yes, Grandma, you did."
She looked at me, her dark eyes sparkling. "Good.”

“Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”

“Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost… What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.”

“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”

“Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way.”

“I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.”

“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction.”

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”

“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”

“Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.”

“To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.”

“drama is a good book”

“Confusion is a good state to be in. It means you are looking, constantly looking. People ask me, "Why do you confuse us like this?" I want you to understand, if you can be confused by anybody, it means you do not know. If you are fanatical, you cannot be confused. Or if you are realized, you cannot be confused. Between ignorance and enlightenment is a very thin line. But they are worlds apart.”

“Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are”

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

“This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.”

“There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.”

“You're so good looking I can barely keep my eyes on the meter.”

“The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.”

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”

“Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.”

“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.”

“One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.”

“Atra esterni' ono thelduin
Mor' rana li'fa unin hjarta onr
Un du evari'nya ono varda

(May good fortune rule over you
peace live in your heart
may the stars watch over you)”

“… we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.”

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

“But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.”

“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”

“It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.”

“Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it…”

“Nothing he said could change what I think of you. I've had my mind made up about you for a long time… and it's all good.”

“But people love a hypocrite, you know——they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you.”

“If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.”

“I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.”

“Pain means you're alive. Pain is good. Pain is life.”