Good Quotes

"You can't legislate good will - that comes through education"

"A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors"

Jason Statham, Actor

"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

"A good memory is needed after one has lied"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it"

Jesse Owens, Athlete

"The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree"

William J. Clinton, President

"There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion"

James Carville, Lawyer

"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

"I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world"

James Laughlin, Poet

"Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important"

James Laughlin, Poet

"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Now is the time for all good men to run like hell"

Craig Bruce

"It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends"

James Laughlin, Poet

"Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

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