Good Quotes

"I've gotten my butt kicked by the best. Jet Li beat me up the best, but Steven Segal can still kick a good butt. It's a different kind of kicking, though"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good"

Allan Sloan

"You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long"

Robert Burton

"The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done"

James Dean, Actor

"I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually"

Frank Sinatra, Musician

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day"

Frank Sinatra, Musician

"God never made a promise that was too good to be true"

Dwight L. Moody, Clergyman

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company"

Booker T. Washington, Educator

"The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice"

Arthur Helps, Historian

"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both"

Al Franken, Comedian

"The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good"

Al Franken, Comedian

"Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms"

Ron Paul, Politician

"I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

"Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands"

John L. Lewis, Leader

"According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings"

Bodhidharma, Leader

"A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad"

Bodhidharma, Leader

"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS"

Ron Paul, Politician

"If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head"

Kim Cattrall, Actress

"We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year"

Betty Ford, First Lady

"As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

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