Good Quotes

"I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say"

"It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world"

Arthur Helps, Historian

"What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane"

Jean Dujardin, Actor

"The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think"

Mark Millar, Writer

"We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing"

Robert E. Lee, General

"Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural"

Algernon Sydney, Politician

"English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with"

Tom Felton, Actor

"It's definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good guys"

Tom Felton, Actor

"It took us a lot of man hours to get that bloody white hair out, so it's good to get rid of it"

Tom Felton, Actor

"I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year"

Tom Felton, Actor

"When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know"

Shane West, Actor

"I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself"

Mark Millar, Writer

"We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu"

Heston Blumenthal, Chef

"It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do"

Ernest Holmes, Theologian

"By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint"

Sextus Propertius, Poet

"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented"

Edith Sitwell, Poet

"A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains"

Maxim Gorky, Novelist

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