Are Good Quotes

#1. Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

Charles Kennedy

#2. God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.

Joyce Meyer

#3. Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.

Gena Showalter

#4. Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

Neil Gaiman

#5. You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.

Kahlil Gibran

#6. There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

Norton Juster

#7. Too often, parents today allow their desire to please their child to govern their parenting. If your relationship with your child is governed by your own desire to be loved by him or her, the odds are good that you will not achieve even that objective.

Leonard Sax

#8. For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.

Slavoj Zizek

#9. You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

Kahlil Gibran

#10. Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

William, Saroyan

#11. We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.

Newton Gatambia

#12. How do you control another person? Two ways. Trust, or fear. People and animals will follow you if they trust you. But trust must be earned. And it is earned by people who are good and great. So if you're neither good nor great, you can only use fear ...

J.H. Myn

#13. You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse - But all may be described in verse.

Garrison Keillor

#14. Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.

Bryan Chapell

#15. We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe. Their ability to make us feel like we belong, to make us feel special, safe and not alone is part of what gives them the ability to inspire us.

Simon Sinek

#16. There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.

Brennan Manning

#17. Most people are good," says Jim. "But not when they're afraid.

Daniel H. Wilson

#18. People are good medicine, but they can't be your foundation of functionality. You must build that yourself.

Heidi Cullinan

#19. I am what you see. A woman. Flawed. Imperfect. You can't label me. I'm not any one thing. I'm many things and not all of them are good. The only certainty is that I love you.

Sandra Marton

#20. One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place where a geeky fat girl could get dates. It had not been entirely untrue. But as someone had pointed out to her in school, although the odds are good, the goods are odd.

Maureen F. McHugh

#21. It's important for me to put out things that I think are good - I want to be a fan of my own stuff. I also want my live shows to be really awesome, and dance is such an important element for me and my performances.

Tinashe

#22. (There is a saying among women scientists who attend highly specialized engineering universities, where the girl-to-guy ratio is decidedly in their favor: "The odds are good, but the goods are odd.")

Michio Kaku

#23. If you do not know your purpose, you have detective work to do. The clues will be in your life to date, in the things you are good at, the things you enjoy doing, in your dreams and your daydreams.

Bill Harvey

#24. I think she might be one of those people who are good at everything they do. She has a talent for life.

Colleen Hoover

#25. All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

Aime Martin

#26. Call any vegetable,
call it by name,
and the chances are good
that the vegetable will respond to you

Frank Zappa

#27. God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

Victoria Osteen

#28. Some people are good cooks and some people are good ... I don't see why you have to do all of that.

Frank Fairfield

#29. Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

Frederick Lenz

#30. Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.

Daniel H. Pink

#31. Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand that.

George W. Bush

#32. Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

John Hurt

#33. When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

#34. There's no such thing as a mistake. There are only experiences. Some are good, and some are bad. Either way, it is an experience we learn from.

Jenna Alatari

#35. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine. Because most people are good. Right?

Daniel H. Wilson

#36. Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

Daniel Keys Moran

#37. doing what you are good at will only make you good;

James C. Collins

#38. Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.

Tallulah Bankhead

#39. The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

Alexis Herman

#40. I dig Strauss and Wagner. Those cats are good.

Jimi Hendrix

#41. No one can manage you if you don't give them permission to do so. But if you are interested in accomplishing as much as you are capable of, then I believe there are good reasons to grant that permission.

David Maister

#42. When things are good in your life, take the time to build and fortify your relationship with the Lord. Never become complacent about your relationship with Him, because there's always room to grow DEEPER!

Stormie O'martian

#43. And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.

Benazir Bhutto

#44. All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.

Miguel De Cervantes

#45. Men like us are good and proud and strong ... if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses ...

Albert Camus

#46. You should not be too much of a purist in your way of life, for you need to be able to accept all that is foul. You should not be too clear in making distinctions in social interactions, for you need to accept everyone whether they are good or bad, wise or foolish.

Zicheng Hong

#47. There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more than it could be assumed that all rich men are good and all poor men are bad.

Norman Vincent Peale

#48. Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

Denzel Washington

#49. Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

George Clooney

#50. Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of them live down to the caricature, but most of them are good people and they are charming.

Tucker Carlson

#51. You're a Dhampir," I breathed.
"So are you." he teased.
"Yeah, but I just thought - "
"That I was human? Because of the bite marks?"
"Yeah." I admitted, No point in lying.
"We all have to survive," he said "And dhamphirs are good at figuring ways out to.

Richelle Mead

#52. There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Shiv Khera

#53. I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

Queen Victoria

#54. you don't have to worry about "finding" your passion. You're naturally going to get passionate about what you are good at.

James Altucher

#55. not all drugs are good.. some of them are great

Bill Hicks

#56. Life is a book of changes. It should be read only to understand how it works. You can't help the changes in life; they must come whether they are good or bad because the good must follow the bad and the bad must follow the good. T

Yogi Bhajan

#57. It's a difficult line to tread, where sometimes you go to the movies or you watch someone do publicity for movies or TV shows, and they do all the jokes that are good in the promotion of it, and you see the movie, and you're like, 'I kind of get it already. I'm not that psyched about it.'

Mike Birbiglia

#58. There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

Lawrence Welk

#59. I guess I'm not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and there are great writers. It just takes a little bit more perseverance and a little bit more time to find [them].

Elijah Wood

#60. There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.

Caity Lotz

#61. Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested.

James Marsters

#62. I don't discuss women at all with anyone. There are good qualities in all women. Some may be lacking in some of these qualities and should have them. I'm liable to say so and hurt their feelings, and it wouldn't be meant that way at all.

Clark Gable

#63. Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#64. Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.

Josh Billings

#65. I prefer creatures with the proper amount of legs. Two or four are good. Six, eight, or none ... that's just not right.

Josh Lanyon

#66. Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

George Herbert

#67. I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

James M. Barrie

#68. Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.

Paul Bloom

#69. Tous les genres sont bons,
Hors le genre ennuyeux."
(All genres are good,
Except the boring one.

Gioachino Rossini

#70. I like the vegetables, the fruits, the beans, the stuff I eat now ... All my blood tests are good, and my vital signs are good, and I feel good, and I also have, believe it or not, more energy.

William J. Clinton

#71. Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.

Jeff Koons

#72. I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Alex Winter

#73. Why do you think people don't think that homosexual parents are good? You don't know what a homosexual family looks like. I will be the role model for the good gay family. Don't let these children suffer without families because of your bias.

Rosie O'Donnell

#74. It doesn't matter whether your thoughts and feelings are good or bad, you are giving them out, and they will return to you as automatically and precisely as an echo returns the same words you send out.

Rhonda Byrne

#75. The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

Wendell Berry

#76. You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.

William Stafford

#77. The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time.

Chris Lowe

#78. A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

Steve Albini

#79. I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

Anthony Horowitz

#80. The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'

Jose Ferreira

#81. Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.

Esperanza Spalding

#82. There are good days and hard days for me - even now. Don't let the hard days win.

Sarah J. Maas

#83. I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

Nikki Giovanni

#84. I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

Christopher Koch

#85. If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.

Freeman Dyson

#86. You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.
For those who limp go not backwards.
But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

Kahlil Gibran

#87. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried. If we are good at waiting, we discover that what we wanted of the future, in our impatience, is no longer what we want, that waiting has brought wisdom.

Dean Koontz

#88. The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

Theodore Roosevelt

#89. Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger.

Sean Penn

#90. Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.

Andrew Weil

#91. Right away we were very good at it, and you like what you are good at, and being better than other people at something is fun. Is that love?

Meg Howrey

#92. I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative.

L. Brent Bozell Jr.

#93. Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

Mignon McLaughlin

#94. All quitters are good losers.

Robert Zuppke

#95. All things in their beeing are good for something.

George Herbert

#96. And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

Robert Penn Warren

#97. Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.

Andy Rooney

#98. Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently embarrassing primate book, and just the thing to make us blush and shuffle our feet.

Michael Bywater

#99. Choosing the right career is the most difficult task for a person who is multi-talented and versatile. Because its hard to decide what field to go into, when you are good at too many things.

Saad Salman

#100. I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too.

Nick Hornby