Quotes about goodness page 11
Stephen King book It
Source: It (1986), Ch. 16 : Eddie's Bad Break, §8
Context: Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends — maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
Source: Hamlet
Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535) Magician, occult writer, theologian, astrologer, alchemist
Source: The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
“Good people drink good beer.”
Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.”
Diana Vreeland (1903–1989) American magazine editor
“A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.”
Rainer Maria Rilke book Letters to a Young Poet
Letter One (17 February 1903)
Source: Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Source: The Gay Science
“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
Quotes from Bill Maher show website, quotes of the show, Google searches showing poor results before February 4th (pages which were updated since their original, pre-feb. 4th posting date). <br class="br"> Why would-be engineers end up as English majors, May 21, 2011 http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/17/education.stem.graduation/index.html, <br class="br"> Skeptic Blog: "Reality Check", April 20, 2011 http://www.skepticblog.org/2011/04/20/reality-check/, <br class="br"> Google Search for quote prior to Feb. 4th, only results are from pages which were updated after the "posted" date https://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+good+thing+about+science+is+that+it%E2%80%99s+true+whether+or+not+you+believe+in+it.%22&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&sa=X&ei=m8AwU9KKNc_8oASnhYCoAg&ved=0CBoQpwUoBjgU&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F2000%2Ccd_max%3A2%2F3%2F2011&tbm=, <br class="br">2010s
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“90% of the work in this country is done
by people who don't feel good".”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
A New Earth (2005)
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
"Twain probably never uttered [these] words," according to R. Kent Rasmussen, editor of The Quotable Mark Twain (1998). <br class="br">"To play golf is to spoil an otherwise enjoyable walk" is found in H.S. Scrivener, "Memories of Men and Meetings" https://books.google.com/books?id=cYgCAAAAYAAJ&q=dicta#v=snippet&q=dicta&f=false, in Arthur Wallis Myers (ed.) Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad New York:Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903, p. 47. Scrivener attributes the aphorism to "my good friends the Allens". Reference from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/28/golf-good-walk. <br class="br">Misattributed
“It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.”
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970) Lawyer, novelist, travel writer
“I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
As quoted after his arrest for treason; see Treason: the story of disloyalty and betrayal in American history http://books.google.com/books?id=lXZKAAAAMAAJ&q=%E2%80%9CIf+a+man+isn%27t+willing+to+take+some+risk+for+his+opinions,+either+his+opinions+are+no+good+or+he%27s+no+good%E2%80%9D&dq=%E2%80%9CIf+a+man+isn%27t+willing+to+take+some+risk+for+his+opinions,+either+his+opinions+are+no+good+or+he%27s+no+good%E2%80%9D&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RgacUteRAZDYoATC1IDYCg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAjgU by Nathaniel Weyl (1950), p. 400
“There is a way to be good again.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
(2) - Rahim Khan
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
"Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company." This was a French maxim, late 16th century, as quoted by George Washington in his "Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation," Rule # 56 (ca. 1744) http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/civility/transcript.html <br class="br">Misattributed
“Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.”
Watchman Nee (1903–1972) Chinese church leader
“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”
Christopher Morley book The Haunted Bookshop
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Post-Presidency, Nobel lecture (2002)
Source: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
“If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.”
Ajahn Chah (1918–1992) thai Buddhist monk
Steven Weinberg (1933) American theoretical physicist
Address at the Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. (April 1999) <br class="br">This comment is modified in a later article derived from these talks:<br>:Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham. Mark Twain described his mother as a genuinely good person, whose soft heart pitied even Satan, but who had no doubt about the legitimacy of slavery, because in years of living in antebellum Missouri she had never heard any sermon opposing slavery, but only countless sermons preaching that slavery was God's will. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion.<br>:* "A Designer Universe?" at PhysLink.com http://www.physlink.com/Education/essay_weinberg.cfm
“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Giorgio Agamben (1942) Italian philosopher
Source: State of Exception
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1950s, Unpopular Essays (1950)
“Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.”
Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Faefever
“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
Philip Pullman book The Subtle Knife
Source: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997), Ch. 2 : The Witches
Context: “Sisters,” she began, “let me tell you what is happening, and who it is that we must fight. It is the Magisterium, the Church. For all its history—and that’s not long by our lives, but it’s many, many of theirs—it’s tried to suppress and control every natural impulse. And when it can’t control them, it cuts them out. Some of you have seen what they did at Bolvangar. And that was horrible, but it is not the only such place, not the only such practice. Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did—not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan’t feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, obliterate, destroy every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to.
Brenda Ueland (1891–1985) Journalist and writer
Source: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
“When good Americans die, they go to Paris"
"Where do bad Americans go?"
"They stay in America”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Act I.
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Context: Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.
Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?
Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.
“Don't try to be original; just try to be good.”
Paul Rand (1914–1996) American graphic designer
“The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.”
Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) German-Prussian soldier and military theorist
“Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Rainer Maria Rilke book The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Source: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
Rainer Maria Rilke book The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Source: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“The good stars met in your horoscope,
Made you of spirit and fire and dew.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Lord Goring, Act I
Variant: The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
What is Poverty? http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_2_oh_to_be.html (Spring 1999). <br class="br">City Journal (1998 - 2008)