Good Quotes: Words of Wisdom for a Better Life (Page 58)

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something"

"It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute"

"In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good"

"New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

"Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself"

Victor Cousin, Philosopher

"In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened"

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Philosopher

"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core"

Phyllis Diller, Comedian

"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong"

Orson Welles, Actor

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet"

Orson Welles, Actor

"But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

"That's a good weight...for a small woman"

Dorian Yates, Athlete

"The church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel"

Pope Francis, Pope

"When I see people enjoying my music and having a good time, it makes me feel incredibly grateful and motivated to continue doing what I love"

Alan Walker, Musician

"You only live but once, and when you're dead, you're done, so let the good times roll"

Jack Kirby, Cartoonist

"Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts"

Alan Cohen, Businessman

"When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade"

Ryan Sypek, Actor

"All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult"

Tom Wilkinson, Actor

"Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

"Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top"

Paul Gallico, Writer

"My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"I don't have to wait to realize the good old days"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions"

Jim Goad, Author

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