Good Quotes

"We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can"

David Brainerd, Clergyman

"We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"I was a good liar as a child"

Gillian Anderson, Actress

"For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do"

George Linnaeus Banks, Writer

"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless"

Gertrude Jekyll, Celebrity

"Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill"

Daniel Ellsberg, Celebrity

"Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell"

Dave Matthews, Musician

"There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"I think life has a way of kicking you in the pants too, but you have to pick up and move ahead, and it certainly helps if you have a good partner in life"

Cheryl Ladd, Actress

"It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it"

Archibald Alexander, Clergyman

"Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country"

Adrian Cronauer, Entertainer

"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever"

Anita Loos, Writer

"Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic"

Charles Sanders Peirce, Philosopher

"Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession"

Charles Lyell, Lawyer

"All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people"

Alvar N. C. de Vaca

"Good looks only take you so far"

Angie Everhart, Model

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle"

George Burns, Comedian

"And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on"

Brett Favre, Athlete

"I've got a good right hook"

Julie Andrews, Actress

"It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it"

Judi Dench, Actress

"Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die"

Anne Boleyn, Royalty

"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world"

Anne Frank, Writer

"I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success"

Greg Akcelrod, Athlete

"You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones"

Dale Earnhardt, Celebrity

"A good folly is worth what you pay for it"

George Ade, Playwright

"They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!"

Harry Hopkins, Diplomat

"A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability"

Frank Whittle, Inventor

"I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night"

Ed Belfour, Athlete

"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction"

Norton Juster, Architect

"Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling"

Friedrich Schleiermacher, Theologian

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be"

Wayne Gretzky, Athlete

"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest"

Sophocles, Author

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away"

Sophocles, Author

"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad"

Sophocles, Author

"It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune"

Sophocles, Author

"Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it"

Sophocles, Author

"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service.""

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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