Quotes about goodness

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“I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.”

“We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.”

“Good riddance to bad rubbish.”

“Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.”

“That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!”

“…. it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.”

“She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.”

“I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything… I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.”

“Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.”

“What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.”

“I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else.”

“Trusting the one you love always brings good results.”

“I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.”

“He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.”

“Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

“I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout”

“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”

“I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.”

“Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.”

“I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.”

“A good title is the title of a successful book.”

“Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.”

“He doesn’t anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi)
Yes, I’m more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron)”

“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”

“Nothing but good times ahead.”

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”

“The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.”

“I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.”

“If you need to talk about your childhood, you’re safe with me. If you need to break into a million pieces, I’m right here, Lev. I’ll find them all, I’m good at details, and I’ll put you back together. You’re safe here.”

“Good to evil seems evil”

“If privacy had a gravestone it might read: “Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.””

“We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.”

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”

“She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.”

“It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!”

“After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life”

“No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.”

“Above all else, never think you're not good enough.”

“Is that it?”
“No. That’s a wall.”
“It could be disguised.”
“You’re not very good at looking for things, are you?”
“I’m good at looking for walls. Look, I found another one.”

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”

“The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me’.”

“Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.”

“None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.”

“My dear children!"
Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack.
"Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye.
"Nellie!" Amy said.
"Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys.”

“He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.”

“A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.”

“Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?”

“Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.”

“Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.”

“The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard… Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.”

“Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.”

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”

“It's always good to be underestimated.”

“Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.”

“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”

“Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes,
Clary thought. "So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.”

“I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.”

“Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.”

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.”

“You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.”

“No good deed goes unpunished”

“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237”

“Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo”

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”

“I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?”

“They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.”

“He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed”

“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.”

“It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.”

“A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.”

“Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.”

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”

“O God, make me good, but not yet”

“I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.”

“Here's the thing about luck… you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.”

“We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.”

“.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.”

“We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.”

“You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most, and if you ever lost your good looks, i bet you wouldn't be smart enough to get them back. Kyle Kingsbury, you are beastly.”

“Thinking is not always… comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.”

“It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.”

“It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.”

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”

“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”

“For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. The old story of good and evil.”

“As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.”

“It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.”

“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.”

“Good food isn't just about the taste.

It's about where and with whom you eat it.”

“If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.”

“It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.”

“[…]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!”
“Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.”

“Favorite Places:
I'm not that good at being a tourist because I'm always looking at the way the light shines in your hair or the way your dress opens to the wind & my favorite places in the world are places filled with you.”

“There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.”

“I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.”

“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.”

“Who and what we surround ourselves with is who and what we become. In the midst of good people, it is easy to be good. in the midst of bad people, it is easy to be bad.”

“It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!”