Quotes about goodness

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“You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue!”

“… You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”

“You left me."
Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past.
He's prophesying our future.”

“Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.”

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.”

“Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure
I’d face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.”

“You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.”

“To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive”

“Oh, he's on top of it. It was volunteer only, but he pretended not to notice me waving my hand in the air," says Haymitch. "See? He's already demonstrated good judgment.”

“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.”

“It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.”

“You must do right before you feel good.”

“You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.”

“When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket I throw the item away. This is a good system since eventually I end up only with clothes that don’t need ironing.”

“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.”

“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.”

“It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.”

“He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.”

“Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!”

“You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”

“You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.”

“Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude,
“you know I love you dearly—”
“Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect
nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in
that manner?”

“Be so good they can't ignore you.”

“I will remember this word," he said. "Shenanigans. It is a good word.”

“What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.”

“Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life.”

“Rule One, boy: shoot first then ask questions
Rulw Two, Double tap just for good measure. Better safe then sorry. -Bubba”

“One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.”

“Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.”

“Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.”

“I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak.”

“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”

“Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.”

“Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”

“Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.”

“Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.”

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

“You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

“Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.”

“Fight with realistic
hope, not to destroy

all the world's wrong,
but to renew its good.”

“My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.”

“This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.”

“Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.”

“A good laugh is sunshine in a house”

“The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?”

“Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?”

“Good idea. I'll do it.”

“In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.”

“I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.”

“Never was a cornflake girl;
Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.”

“Good fences make good neighbors.”

“It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.”

“Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks… then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get.

It's really not even fair to everyone else.”

“In war, good guys always become bad guys.”

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”

“I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right. This nation must continue to speak out for justice and truth. We must always be willing to act in their defense and to advance the cause of peace”

“Something good will come of all things yet”

“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”

“Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.”

“He smiled at two people walking by: a tall, good-looking boy with a streak of white in his dark hair and a brunette girl whose eyes were shaded by sunglasses. They ignored him. But”

“Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.”

“Good. Illegal is always faster.”

“Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.”

“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.”

“Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”

“Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.”

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”

“I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy”

“Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.”

“Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.”

“Good Lord, who spread the Daimon fertilizer around? They're cropping up like a bad horror flick. (Tabitha)”

“The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.”

“So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.”

“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.”

“Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.”

“I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.”

“A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.”

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

“So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed.
The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.
Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.”

“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.”

“It’s good.’ She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked it or I didn’t. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.”

“In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.”

“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

“Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.”

“That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.”

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

“Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.”

“It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done.”

“Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.”

“I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.”

“On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.”

“A good river is nature's life work in song.”

“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”

“Good? No, that didn't go far enough. She'd made him feel… alive. Awakened.”

“The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.”

“The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?”

“Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.”