Quotes about goodness

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“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.”

“I always thought that 'Good things happen to those who do the wave' No wonder I've been so confused”

“Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.”

“Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.”

“I am very good at groveling.”

“Bombs are good. I love bombs."--Iggy”

“The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.”

“I had no reason to get all goofy, just because the man was too good-looking for his own good.”

“Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?”

“Listen, son—most women are damn fools and children. But they’ve got more range than we’ve got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better—and the vile ones are viler.”

“Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.
- Humbug”

“I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. Effie's calling me to dinner.

Good. I'm starving.”

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”

“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”

“My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.”

“Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.”

“It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”

“Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: "The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive."
SMASH!
"Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin.”

“All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe." It will work miracles in your life.”

“The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.”

“Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.”

“One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.”

“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”

“But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”

“The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive.”

“Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.”

“You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth.
“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”

“All right, big guy, down you go."

Oh, yeah. Bed. Bed was good.

"And look who's here. It's Nurse Vishous.”

“He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?”

“Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.”

“I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.”

“But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.”

“I wake up every morning and think: You know what would be good today? Not dying.”

“Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)”

“Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants… Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.”

“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”

“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”

“Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who have never done anything for you.”

“Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it’s a good technique.”

“I want to be an honest man and a good writer.”

“With your head full of brains,
and your shoes full of feet,
You're too smart to go down any not-so-good-street.”

“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”

“Anyway, how are you and Ramona doing?'

Uh… you know. Pretty good.'

Have you said the L-Word yet?'

The L-Word? You mean? Lesbian?'
Uh… No. The other L-Word.'

?'

Okay. Uh, It's "love." I wasn't trying to trick you or anything.”

“I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster."

End of discussion. The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom.”

“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”

“Seth told us good night and left.

I watched him go wistfully. “Anyone else here feel like swooning?”

“A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”

“In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavour, it's indispensable.”

“That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”

“There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.”

“I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley”

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

“The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!”

“True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is…”

“They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.”

“You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”

“I don’t have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn’t have to be forever.”

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can”

“We doctors know a hopeless case if — listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go”

“Give me one good reason why I shouldn't chop him into worthless-bastard-themed confetti.
--Isabelle Lightwood”

“While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.”

“It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.”

“Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.”

“No one who writes a good book is really dead.”

“Nothing good ever came easy.” (Garreth)”

“Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.”

“He nuzzled my neck, inhaling deeply. “Mmm. You smell so good.”

“Oh, yeah,” I said, smirking. “I call this new perfume ‘Le Jungle grime et tropical BO.’ ”

“Dirt and sweat. Very sexy.”

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.”

“If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.”

“and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense
and are not easy to fool with laughter”

“Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under
them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.”

“I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try." [Zarek]”

“Like most Beta Males, he didn't realize that being a good guy was not necessarily an attraction to women.”

“[N]obody minds having what is too good for them.”

“The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”

“They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.”

“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”

“It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you.”

“You think they are kind, that the Nephilim are kind, because they are good, but goodness is not kindness, and there is nothing crueler than virtue.”

“I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.”

“Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.”

“Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.”

“If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated toinstead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily…”

“Nothing is fun until you're good at it.”

“Luke's left side was bloody. His eyes were open—blue eyes, the way they used to be. His breath was a deep rattle. "Good… blade," he croaked.”

“The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.”

“Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.”

“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”

“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”

“Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.”

“The good guys and bad guys aren’t as easy to tell apart as I used to think they were. You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure.
You have to look with the heart.”

“Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.”

“We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!"
"Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.”

“There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.”

“I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.”

“As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.”

“Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.”

“If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.”

“…good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.”