Quotes about goodness

page 29

“The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.”

“It's just that I'm fifteen, and I have this crazy idea I might actually have a life in front of me. I don't see how it's going to do me much good to believe that the world is over and this is just an epilogue.”

“You make a good point,' Fletcher conceded. 'See, there's a reason why you're the girl and I'm the boy. You think about things while I…'
'Don't?'
'Exactly,' he said happily.”

“It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.”

“Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.”

“Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.”

“Avery's tone was grand and high-pitched." And, since I've been hanging out with you, Dad's decided I'm on good behavior now."
"Poor oblivious bastard," murmured Christian.”

“If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.”

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer”

“You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about
yourself.”

“… A good Book, has no Ending…”

“There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.”

“It is good to be loved, even though it will not last.”

“There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”

“I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.”

“I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.”

“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

“My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.”

“Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”

“The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”

“If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.”

“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”

“I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.”

“Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil… Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.”

“Are you afraid of the good you might do?”

“What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?”

“Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.”

“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife…. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”

“But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.”

“She glared at him. “I'm not weird like that. I'm good weird. I'm cool weird.”
“Yes,” he said doubtfully. “Yes, you are.”

“I’m not crazy,” I whispered.
“I know.”
Believe it or not, that’s the most romantic thing Zachary Goode ever told me.”

“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.”

“Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred.”

“Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully…”

“Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.”

“I've been a police officer for twenty years now and I'll tell you, pretty much every bad thing is life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing.”

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”

“I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.”

“Unpleasant?" he finished for her.
"Only on the days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually, I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y.”

“I'm not good at talking about myself.”

“Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.”

“God is the Champion at bringing people from a place of destruction to a place of total victory. As they reach that place of victory they become trophies of his grace. and they are set on the display as a fragrant reminder of God's goodness.”

“There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.”

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”

“When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.”

“Townsend shrugged. 'With all due respect to the good doctor, I highly suspect he's a moron.”

“No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.”

“That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.”

“We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"….”

“God is Good… Jesus is Lord
Be Good to Yourself and each Other
J-Jesus.. O-Others.. Y-Yourself”

“Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation”

“You can't believe because she tells you to," I said
"No. The question is: how to be a good person if I don't believe anymore.”

“My Aunt Dahlia has a carrying voice… If all other sources of income failed, she could make a good living calling the cattle home across the Sands of Dee.”

“You hate change. I hate it too. But things can't stay the same- and that's well, for when nothing changes in your life, it's as good as being dead”

“I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.”

“Was she telling you to stay away from me?" I asked.
He paused, then said, "Yeah." He squeezed my hand out of Aunt Lauren's sight. "It's okay. We're good."

Chloe and Derek”

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

“She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.”

“I flipped the good doctor the bird.
Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall.
"What is it with you and giving people the finger?"
"What? It's a classic.”

“Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”

“I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.”

“Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.”

“Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”

“We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.”

“What is the scent of water?"
"Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.”

“I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.”

“Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping”

“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”

“I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.”

“Everyone is more than one thing,” said Kieran. “We are more than single actions we undertake, whether they be good or evil.”

“Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on”

“Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.”

“Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.”

“My idea of good company… is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”

“To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”

“It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.”

“Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good.”

“Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.”

“Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.”

“So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.”

“I don't care what your nose says! The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich!"
"Meatloaf sandwiches are good! But this is a half-blood scent, I swear. They are on board!"
"Bah, your brain isn't on board!”

“A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.”

“The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.”

“I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.”

“My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.”

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”

“We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.”

“Why do magazines do this to women? It's
all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.”

“I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.”

“Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness”

“The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.”

“Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.”

“No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?”

“No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.”

“Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?”

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

“Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.”

“How we live our lives does not, unfortunately depend on us alone. Circumstances, good or bad, constantly intervene. A person close to us die. A person not so close to us carries on living. All these things affect how we live.”