Quotes about goodness

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“They defy gravity, as good books should.”

“It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.”

“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, an evasion simply muddles 'em.”

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”

“It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?”

“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.”

“A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed cormulas about good and evil.”

“Sit down, Will. There’s a good fellow,” he said.
“Yes, sir,” replied Will, and Halt’s eyebrows shot up in surprise.
“He’s never called me sir,” he said.
“Probably trying to get on my good side,” Crowley replied.
Halt nodded savagely. “Probably.”

“Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.”

“How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.”

“In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.”

“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”

“Did you bring me a hamburger?
Did I-No, Myrnin, I didn't bring you a hamburger. Bizarre. He'd never asked for that before.
Coffee?
It's late.
Doughnuts?
No.
What good are you then?”

“Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina”

“I really wish you hadn't worn that sweater,'he muttered into her ear.
'It's good practice for you,' she replied, her lips moving against his skin.
'Tomorrow, fishnets.'
Against her side, warm and familiar, she felt him laugh.”

“The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.”

“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”

“We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.”

“Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.”

“So shall the world go on,
To good malignant, to bad men benign,
Under her own weight groaning.”

“The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we like to think
That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood--
Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.”

“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”

“I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.”

“When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.”

“…there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at.”

“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”

“The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.”

“What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.”

“Despite my staggering good looks, you actually don't like me that way…" (Jace)”

“Don't go there Rule" Lawe warned him softly. " I don't think your horoscope declared today to be a good day to die.”

“Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.”

“But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them”

“Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.”

“I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.”

“Sausage-Seller: You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.”

“I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.”

“I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset."
Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.”

“What are you doing in Nicky's room, Rachel? Oooh! He summoned you to the west coast, didn't he? Did you kill him? Good for you taking care of that little problem? I should give you a bunny!" - Algaliarept”

“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient.”

“That was terribly thoughtless of you. What good is having friends if they don’t put you in mortal peril every once in a while?”

“…I said everything that matters… Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.”

“By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.”

“Ask once, believe you have received, and all you have to do to receive is feel good.”

“Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.”

“Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.”

“Life was good, one had only to live it.”

“A woman had to choose her own particular unhappiness carefully. That was the only happiness in life: to choose the best unhappiness. An unwise move, good God, you could squander everything.”

“What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked.

"I just thought it might come in useful.”


"Were you planning to attack me?”

"No. But that’s a good idea.”

“But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.”

“Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.”

“Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”

“If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good, or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.”

“There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.”

“Zee said, grumpily, “Liebling, this is not a good idea.”
“Zee,” I told him, “I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.”

“After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.”

“I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.”

“I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.”

“How goodness heightens beauty!”

“When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.”

“A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.”

“Very good, Jason Grace," Notus said. "You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but youchoose your legacy.”

“I don’t think so,” Clary said. “I think maybe she reminded me of you.”
“Because I’m tiny, blonde, and look good in pigtails?”

“I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers…”

“If you married me, it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you."
"Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters marry Gypsies. Those doors have already been closed, bolted, and nailed shut.”

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”

“It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.”

“I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.”

“There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.”

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”

“That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.”

“Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.”

“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”

“Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Wisdom is the science of happiness.”

“I’m so sleepy.”
“My beautiful girl, dawn nears. And all good vampires are to bed.”
She eased up, arching a brow at him. “Then you’ll stay awake.”

“it is good to be sitting some place
in public at 2:30 in the afternoon
without getting the flesh ripped from
your bones.”

“Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.”

“What if it can't be worked out? What if I'm—what if I'm broken for good?”

“A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees.”

“It's good not to be the only girl in the fight for once.”

“live out where the real winds blow—to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested… Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.”

“She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.”

“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”

“First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.”

“Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.”

“Knowing that wishes don’t always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there’s a really good chance they will manifest in some way.”

“Well," I said finally, knowing he was waiting, "you make me laugh."
He nodded. "And?"
"You're pretty good-looking."
"Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful."
"You want to be beautiful?" I asked him.
"Are you saying I'm not?”

“To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.”

“He looks at you a lot. When you're not paying attention. He looks at you, to see if you're having a good time.”

“Good friends are hard to come by.. I need more money.”

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”

“It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them.”

“… One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.”

“A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.”

“Good-bye Dr. Steve,' I said, then climbed the stairs and went to the fifth floor to die.”

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

“Everything was good.
But it was awful, too.”

“… mediocre people find their way into positions of authority… because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.”

“good decisions requires the development”