Quotes about goodness

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“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”

“Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.”

“The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.”

“We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.”

“She wants me to take out Patton.”

Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?”

“No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.”

“Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.”

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”

“Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.”

“Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.”

“My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.”

“But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I’d managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I’d been in years.”

“good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.”

“This is how it has always been with me. Give me something good, I’ll destroy it. Love me, I’ll destroy you. I have never felt deserving of anything in my life.”

“[Will]'d barely been asleep a few minutes when Halt's voice woke him.
'Will? Are you asleep?'…
'I was,' he said, a little indignantly. 'I'm not now.'
'Good,' Halt replied, a trifle smugly. 'Serves you right.”

“Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.”

“The calories in chocolate don't count because chocolate comes from the cocoa bean, and everyone knows that beans are good for you.”

“There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.”

“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”

“I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.”

“If you are good life is good.”

“There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune."
"You'll have to risk it… and so will I," Frank said. "By the way, we're related."
Percy almost stumbled off the roof. "What?”

“When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.”

“Deep down, Clark's essentially a good person… and deep down, I'm not”

“What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream."
"I need you," said Lisa.
"I hear that from women a lot.”

“Because my spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.”
Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere”

“It's such a happiness when good people get together.”

“I will have you know I practiced that speech. In front of a mirror before you got here."
"So what do you think it meant?"
"I'm not sure," Jace admitted, "but I know I look damn good delivering it.”

“true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing”

“You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good.”

“Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.”

“It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.”

“Aren't you afraid of dying?
Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it.”

“On the way out Jeremiah turned around and danced a quick jig for me and i couldn't help it, I laughed. Over his shoulder Conrad said, "Good night Belly."

And that was it. I was in love”

“Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.”

“Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.”

“He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her.”

“A noble type of good.
Heroic womanhood.”

“I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.”

“So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”

“I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.”

“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.”

“Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.”

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

“He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family—especially when they’re great.”

“Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death… before they breed more hemophiliacs.”

“Thank goodness for all the things you are not!
Thank goodness you're not something someone forgot,
and left all alone in some punkerish place
like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.”

“In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.”

“Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers… great talkers.”

“Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.”

“A person who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”

“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”

“[…] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same.”

“… most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.”

“Shadowhunters don't say good-bye, not before a battle. Or good luck. You must behave as if return is certain, not a matter of chance”

“This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.”

“You sure you don’t want to kiss me good-bye, baby?”

“Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.”

“The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn’t be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words?”

“I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.”

“Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.”

“Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding.”

“Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort. When good enough gets the job done, go for it.”

“Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.”

“She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.”

“Fairness doesn't govern life and death. If it did, no good man would ever die young.”

“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”

“Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.”

“I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.”

“Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.”

“It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.”

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”

“Go now. Alone. Or I make good on my promise.
-A”

“Death is an inevitability, isn't it? You become more aware of that when you get to my age. I don't worry about it. I'm ready for it. When I go, I want to go doing what I do best. If I died tomorrow, I couldn't complain. It's been good.”

“There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.”

“The difference between good and evil men is not found in the acts they are willing to commit—but merely in what name they are willing to commit them in.”

“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”

“Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.”

“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”

“Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.”

“Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.”

“Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.”

“This is war,' I yelled through the door.
Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war.”

“It had been so good to see his enemy again. Positively heartwarming.

Hallmark really needed to start up a line of revenge cards, the kind that let you reach out to those you were going to come after with a vengeance.

- Lash”

“I want to know about my mom. And other stuff. I want to know the whole story, good or bad.”
“Me, too,” said Gazzy. “I want to find my parents so I can tell’m what total scuzzes they are. Like, ‘Hi, mom and dad, you’re such scum!”

“I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him… to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good…”

“I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog.”

“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”

“A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.”

“I see IT in the hallway. IT goes to Merryweather. IT is walking with Aubrey cheerleader. IT is my nightmare and I can't wake up. IT sees me. IT smiles and winks. Good thing my lips are stitched together or I'd throw up.”

“Hephaestus glowered up at us. “I didn’t make you, did I?”

Uh,” Annabeth said, “no, sir.”

Good,” the god grumbled. “Shoddy workmanship.”

“Voices and faces aren't manifestations
of good or bad.”

“Things change when someone special comes into your life. Both sides have to give up things. The one thing you don't give up in a good relationship is you--whatever makes you most you. - Jim Olsten (Jane's Grandpa)”

“Knowledge isn't always good for you.”

“I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.”

“…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.”

“Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?”

“Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.”

“I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.”