Good Quotes

"Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

"Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven"

Michelangelo, Artist

"One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"No man's credit is as good as his money"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune"

Owen Glendower, Royalty

"Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that"

Britney Spears, Musician

"The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'"

Menander, Poet

"To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"There is no bad in good"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court"

Helen Wills Moody, Athlete

"The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

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