Good Quotes

"Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"Humility is no substitute for a good personality"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant"

Washington Irving, Writer

"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam"

Michael Ignatieff, Politician

"A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head"

Agnes de Mille, Dancer

"This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one"

George W. Bush, President

"I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge"

George W. Bush, President

"A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus"

Herbert Hoover, President

"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture"

Michelangelo, Artist

"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship"

Joe Baca, Politician

"I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite"

Edward Albee, Dramatist

"God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

"If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously"

Harry Reasoner, Journalist

"If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing"

John Le Carre, Author

"There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Politician

"Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser"

Paul Newman, Actor

"Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do"

Charles Eames, Designer

"It is a good deed to forget a poor joke"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood"

Edwin Markham, Poet

"Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance"

John Barrow, Politician

"I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

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