Quotes about goodness

page 48

“It's a penis,' Grandma said. 'Stephanie got it in the mail. It's a pretty good one too.”

“To Sorrow
I bade good morrow,
And thought to leave her far away behind;
But cheerly, cheerly,
She loves me dearly;
She is so constant to me, and so kind.”

“Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.”

“Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.”

“That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.”

“I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.”

“What am I supposed to do,
Sit around and wait for you?
Well I can't do that,
And there's no turning back.
I need time to move on,
I need love to feel strong.
Cause I've got time to think it through,
And maybe I'm too good for you!”

“I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.”

“I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.”

“And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more…”

“To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.”

“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”

“You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.”

“Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this fact and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization.”

“We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are.”

“Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”

“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time."”

“You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.
There's life in a nutshell.”

“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”

“What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?”

“He's a good man," Ranger said.
"And you?"
"I'm better.”

“Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.”

“When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.”

“My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.”

“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.”

“Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.”

“Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.”

“me: you know what sucks about love?
o. w. g.: what?
me: that it's so tied to the truth.

I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good…. Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?”

“Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.”

“In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.”

“Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed.”

“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”

“Art for the sake of art itself is an idle sentence. Art for the sake of truth, for the sake of what is beautiful and good — that is the creed I seek.”

“Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.”

“wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.”

“He still didn't think I was good enough for you."

"No father thinks any man is good enough for his daughter.”

“The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.”

“I wanted so terribly to be good to him.”

“I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.”

“This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.”

“I’m not very good at giving anyone a clear no.”

“A good book should leave you…. slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”

“Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.”

“A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.”

“See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.”

“J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”

“Good things happen to those who hustle.”

“All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.”

“The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.”

“Just because a poet said something didn’t mean it was true, only that it sounded good.”

“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”

“I hopehaven't given up on the S. Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S. Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped.”

“This one looks good,” said Chong over breakfast the next morning.
Benny read out loud from the paper. “‘Pit Thrower.’ What’s that?”
“I don’t know,” Chong said with a mouth full of toast. “I think it has something to do with barbecuing.”
It didn’t.”

“A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.”

“What, are you, crazy?' 'It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet', said Zaphod quietly. 'I know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”

“His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.”

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”

“Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.”

“Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough”

“I am so tired of waiting.
Aren’t you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two —
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.”

“God give me anything but a good man's pity.”

“Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”

“You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.”

“This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me… and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.”

“I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.”

“I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time."
Alex's grandfather.. Everything is Illuminated”

“The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.”

“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”

“I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.”

“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”

“Adrian sighed. "I knew you staying out of trouble was too good to be true.”

“Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.”

“If it’s not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that’s when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you.”

“No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.”

“Then tell them we've all got meanness in us… But tell them we have some good in us too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That's why we've got to make sure we pass it on.”

“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”

“For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing.”

“Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.”

“A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)”

“A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.”

“We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.”

“Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.”

“After a minute, Gat leaned back and let me go first. “Not because you’re a girl but because I’m a good person,” he told me.”

“Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.”

“Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.”

“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”

“If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.”

“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”

“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“What is morality, she asked.
Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.”

“Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.”

“The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.”

“I don't know, but I think it's going to be good.”

“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.”

“A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.”

“It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.”