Good Quotes

"I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others"

John Le Carre, Author

"I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives"

John Le Carre, Author

"I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group"

Gary Gygax, Inventor

"I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever"

Jimmy Carter, President

"It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors"

Jimmy Carter, President

"What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad"

Charles Eames, Designer

"Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals"

Jimmy Carter, President

"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"All publicity is good, except an obituary notice"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do"

Robert Plant, Musician

"Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers"

Plautus, Playwright

"Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome"

Plautus, Playwright

"Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"Art is about trying to find the good in people and making the world a more compassionate place"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Life is good when you have a good sandwich"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?"

William Dean Howells, Author

"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me"

Graham Nash, Musician

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