Good Quotes

"I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie"

"I do a pretty good job at casting actually"

"Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them"

"And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly"

"Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"All the other guys I think had a scream on Lock, Stock. They just had a laugh and a crack, and thought it would never come out; they were just having a good time. On this one, I felt that"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit"

John Grierson, Director

"My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel"

John Grierson, Director

"I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy"

Guillaume Apollinaire, Novelist

"A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly"

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries"

Marie Curie, Scientist

"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad"

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Theologian

"You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be"

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Theologian

"It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

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