Top 100 But Good Quotes
#1. The bad news is that time is finite, but good news is that it's enough for a life.
Debasish Mridha
#2. Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.
Rick DeMarinis
#4. Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
A.J.P. Taylor
#5. When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.
Anne Rice
#6. The rebel is back. It feels good - different, somehow - but good. It is sometimes true that a girl can become someone else with the simplest of changes.
Katherine Owen
#7. If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.
Kevin Henkes
#8. I had never come across a talking cat before, but good manners, as my father used to say, cost nothing.
Jasper Fforde
#9. Falling is scary but good practice for life. We must fall. In love. Out of love. Into new experiences. Out of old habits. Deeper and further into ourselves. We must fall, life is falling over forward. The only choice we have is how we let go.
Troian Bellisario
#10. For you to be considering someone else like that is more like turning over a whole freaking tree, not just a leaf, but good for you.
Jay Crownover
#11. You get to thinking that maybe the diving line shouldn't be animals and people but good and bad.
Deb Caletti
#12. That is how sin works. Having nothing in itself by which to convince, on what other resources but good and truth can it draw to make itself attractive and plausible? We must use the natural law to recognize the abuse of the natural law; there is nothing else to use.
J. Budziszewski
#13. There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives.
Francoise Mouly
#14. Ronin had tried desperately to be smart about it all. He really, really tried. He knew she was absolutely plowed. He knew she would probably hate him in the morning. He knew with every fiber of his should that giving into the passion she evoked was a bad idea.
But good God, he wanted her.
Sibylla Matilde
#15. I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
Will Rogers
#16. The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
Brene Brown
#17. Men can bear all things but good days ...
Amelia Barr
#18. Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
Derek Jacobi
#19. The accusation that feminism is bad for the family leads to understanding that it's bad for the patriarchal variety, but good for democratic families that are the basis of democracy.
Gloria Steinem
#20. Previous first ladies seemed to feel the need to wear a sort of uniform, whereas Michelle Obama likes fashion and is very comfortable in fashion. She's happy to mix high and low, and she loves emerging designers. That will do nothing but good for our industry.
Anna Wintour
#21. I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
John Quincy Adams
#22. Bad things happen wherever they get a mind to, but good things don't happen at all unless you go looking for them.
Olga Grushin
#23. I'm from a normal household. I haven't always had millions to spend on creams and clothes. I like something that's affordable, but good quality. With Avon, it's really accessible, and everyone loves it. It's a brand that you can rely on.
Abbey Clancy
#25. Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?
Danielle Steel
#26. Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.
Andrew Carnegie
#28. It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#29. Food keeps us alive, as we all know. Nourishment allows us to grow and be healthy. But good cooking takes us beyond survival and into the realms of culture and pleasure.
Fernando Divina
#30. We were also performing. We'd give them a list of, like, 'Here's how we want to be introduced' They'd be like, 'Great' And then 5 minutes later they'd come back, 'Bad news: we lost your list. But good news: we've got a trash bag full of weed!'
Amy Poehler
#31. Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.
Adlai Stevenson I
#32. Parenthood and having kids puts you in touch with a whole other sort of sensitivity which is nothing but good. You feel more than you ever felt. You feel that vulnerability, but at the same time you wouldn't trade it for anything.
Stone Gossard
#33. It's easy to let the assholes, the jerks, the bullies, the green-eyed monsters occupy all your mental headlines but look around, you've got friends and there are even more people who want you to do well, wishing you nothing but good cheer. Let them have all the publicity in your mental media.
Ezekiel Tyrus
#34. Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
Ben Jonson
#35. But good friendships require complementary personalities, not identical ones.
William Landay
#36. Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war ... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.
Thomas Huxley
#37. When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#38. Showers are good. Perhaps not as good as bacon, but good.
Rick Riordan
#39. It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.
Titian
#40. Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.
Ginger Rogers
#41. The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.
Howard Warren Buffett
#42. I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it.
Harper Lee
#43. Wow has a reverberation - wowowowowow - and this pulse can soften us, like the electrical massage an acupuncturist directs to your spine or cramped muscle, which feels like a staple gun, but good.
Anne Lamott
#44. Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is.
Steve Jobs
#45. Being asked where in Greece he saw good men , he replied, 'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
Diogenes
#46. If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.
Deepak Chopra
#47. Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that statement was plain to see. Reacher put the guy out of misery. A single shot, close range, behind the ear. An unnecessary round expended, but good manners had a price
Lee Child
#48. Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter ... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury.
Marc Jacobs
#49. Our fight against racism should not be a matter of black and white, but good and evil.
Kathy McClary
#50. The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.
Robert Anton Wilson
#51. Insincerity had never come easily to her, but good manners required it on occasion, even if a superhuman effort was needed.
Alexander McCall Smith
#52. As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.
Criss Jami
#53. Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.
Sylvester Stallone
#54. History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
Sara Sheridan
#55. (Later, Giddle's response when I told her I was in love: "Oh God, I'm so sorry. Love is awful. It ruins every normal thing, everything but itself. It makes you crazy and for nothing, because it's so disappointing. But good luck with that.")
Rachel Kushner
#56. It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
Seneca The Younger
#57. The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing ...
Martin Luther
#58. If someone had the ability to sit at every table at once, he would hear nothing but good about himself, and yet even such contortions would pale in comparison to those of the others.
Joseph Roth
#59. A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but submissive individuals, half of its health and all of its vigor have disappeared.
George Boas
#60. We read to know we are not alone (obviously not mine but good)
C.S. Lewis
#61. The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'
Jonathan Kozol
#62. [ ... ] and it was like the universe had suddenly turned itself off and the world was almost holy, like life was suddenly religious, but good religious, and suddenly everyone became the best version of themselves.
Douglas Coupland
#63. They say a cigarette takes three minutes off your life, but good hashish makes dying seem so far away.
Paul Beatty
#64. I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.
David Hockney
#65. WE WERE kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic.
Nescio
#66. A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson
#67. It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.
Andy Stanley
#68. Sure good is good, but good is something that nobody know. Good is a ghost. You can't get pocket money from good. Jamaica better off bad, because that type of bad work.
Marlon James
#69. She can hear me?" "She probably can. I think so." I put his hand on Nana's and my hand on top of his. "Go ahead." "Hi, Nana!" he said as if Nana were hard of hearing, and it was difficult not to laugh. "Inside-the-house voice, buddy," Bree said. "But good enthusiasm there. I'll bet Nana heard you.
James Patterson
#70. All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.
Mike Carey
#71. Brown pulled the bag closer to his side. He had nothing but good memories from his time overseas. That's the truth nobody knew. Since coming home he'd been labeled a baby-killer and a murderer, and things had been bad enough for him and his family when he went into the military.
Sheldon Lee Compton
#74. It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
John Irving
#75. While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.
Nicholas Negroponte
#76. I was too little to think a miracle could be anything but good.
Brenna Yovanoff
#77. Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#78. ... fortune is not in time or place or things; but, good or bad, in the man's own self for him alone to find and prove.
Percy FitzPatrick
#79. Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.
Scott Adams
#80. He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says things like 'you know, we are much alike, you and I I'. But good enough
Alex Garland
#81. I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
Lance Henriksen
#83. I've never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.
Jeb Bush
#84. The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.
Wendy McElroy
#85. On this earth everyone has his cross. But we must act in such a way that we be not the bad, but good thief.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#86. We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
Thucydides
#87. Pride, cowardice, and miserliness are bad for me but good for women
Ali R.A
#88. Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken.
[Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]
Plutarch
#89. The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.
Leo Tolstoy
#90. I think nothing but good things about you. I see it every day, despite how you try to hide it.
M.K. Schiller
#91. But, good Lord, man," he said, "you oughtn't to be a policeman!
G.K. Chesterton
#92. If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.
John Of The Cross
#93. But good girls dont do that, dont make a fuss, dont upset parents. and i was a good girl so i curled up on the floor and sobbed silently instead
Laura Jarratt
#94. ... what kind of life do we live if we let fear break us down? The truth is there will be tough times, we've certainly been through them before; but good things happen everyday. Great things. We just have to open our eyes and see them.
Christene Houston
#95. And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
Charles Dickens
#96. None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
John Milton
#97. I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.
John Adams
#98. It's good when it gets messy,' Sully said. 'Hard, but good, because that's when the stuff we need to see comes to the surface. That's where God is.
Nancy Rue
#99. I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.
Joyce Brothers
#100. It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.
Edward Conlon
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