Good Quotes

"I find that different types of music are good for certain activities"

"That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty"

"The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me"

"On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place"

Paul Muldoon, Poet

"Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose"

Jeffrey Bernard, Journalist

"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time"

Paul Muldoon, Poet

"Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!"

Busta Rhymes, Musician

"I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those"

Busta Rhymes, Musician

"One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others"

Moliere, Playwright

"I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am"

Busta Rhymes, Musician

"That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture"

Busta Rhymes, Musician

"To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir"

Henry Miller, Writer

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary"

Henry Miller, Writer

"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes"

James Madison, President

"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough"

Garrison Keillor, Writer

"If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them"

Bill Hicks, Comedian

"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup"

Bennett Cerf, Journalist

"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil"

Henry Miller, Writer

"My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"The power to do good is also the power to do harm"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless"

Larry David, Actor

"I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out"

Larry David, Actor

"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence"

John Milton, Poet

"Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit"

John Milton, Poet

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