Top 100 Ever Good Quotes
#1. Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.
Richard Carlson
#2. But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me - I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.
Dexter Palmer
#3. Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
D.J. Cotrona
#4. The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there's just no point in sharing.
Stephen Amell
#5. You're just the sperm donor, Norm," he says, heading for the door. "That's all you were ever good for. Fucking sperm.
Jonathan Tropper
#6. Can you ever get off for good behavior?" he joked.
I gave him what I hoped was a seductive smile as I found my seat. "Sure," I called over my shoulder. "If I was ever good.
Richelle Mead
#7. Because I'm a girl, Claire thought. She was barely able to contain the relief welling up inside her. Because we're all stupid and insecure and think that we're never, ever good enough.
Rachel Caine
#8. I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.
Balthazar Getty
#9. Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.
Borden Chase
#10. I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.
Joe Budden
#11. Can't you ever get off for good behavior?"
"Sure, if I was ever good.
Richelle Mead
#12. The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.
Charles Spurgeon
#13. They smiled too much, were quick to compliment and support, but behind the stretched lips and soft words was a judgment. No one was ever good enough - at least not until they were dead. The dead were exemplary.
Michael J. Sullivan
#15. Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
Andy Rooney
#16. He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
Francis Bacon
#17. So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
Boethius
#18. Everything I write is for her; none of it is ever good enough.
Kristopher Jansma
#19. No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.
Maajid Nawaz
#20. In the US everybody is about what's new and what's next and they don't really build a real loyalty as much as in Europe - if you were ever good and they liked you, they will treat it with the respect that it still matters.
Rob Zombie
#21. I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
Taylor Cole
#22. Nothing is ever good enough," he said. He combed my hair with his fingers. "I feel like I'm putting rags on porcelain. I barely tolerate the things you do wear.
C.L.Stone
#23. No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
James Anthony Froude
#24. People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remember reading some Adrienne Rich quote where she talks about how important it was just to watch bubbles rise in a glass.
Karen Russell
#25. To be young is to be powerless, but to have delusions of power. To believe that one can really change things, make the world better and simpler in good and simple ways. To grow old is to realize that nobody is ever good, nothing is ever simple. That truth is cruel at first, but finally comforting.
Frances Hardinge
#26. Nothing ever good came from a plan
J.E. Duah
#27. Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
John Bonham
#28. Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.
Frederick Buechner
#29. A feeling erupted in my stomach, like nothing would ever be the same again. Like good karma was catching up with me. Like someone had opened up the lid to my lobster tank and I was finally breathing in the shockingly fresh air.
Francesca Zappia
#30. You ever go to shop for tuna, and it says "dolphin safe", and you look at it and kind of go, "Yeah, but"-like somehow you think it's not going to be as good? Like, "I want to do the right thing-but it's probably kind of bland without the dolphin."
Louis C.K.
#31. It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations
Kin Hubbard
#32. Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?
David Foster Wallace
#33. Did you ever see a mob rush across town to do a good deed? Dave Robicheaux
James Lee Burke
#34. Your good friends can write a book on you; but Your best friends can create an embarrassing full fledged 3 hours movie on you, with silliest jingles and animation made ever.
Vikrmn
#35. There's one good thing about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.
Robert M. Edsel
#36. Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.
Eriq La Salle
#37. It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.
Anna Quindlen
#38. To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.
J.G. Holland
#39. never, never, ever force the patient to eat, as it will do them more harm than good, even though your intentions for their well-being are sincere and honorable.
Bob Mcdowell
#40. Let's promise to each other that if we ever meet again we will never plow and push our new-fallen snow. We will not become slush. We will stay like this field and melt away together only in the sun's good time.
Jerry Spinelli
#41. I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.
Mac DeMarco
#42. I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
Fay Wray
#43. I'm probably at my least religious I've ever been in a while. When you're moved by music, that's always good. But I haven't been talking to God too much lately.
Stone Gossard
#44. When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands.
Shane Filan
#45. He downed the rest of his drink and poured himself another from the bottle of whisky room service had brought up: Jameson. The only good thing ever to come out of Ireland.
Jo Nesbo
#46. I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.
Hans Fritzsche
#47. No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
Olive Schreiner
#48. I am just the most boring person you will ever meet. I'm the good Southern daughter. I'm not outrageous.
Toni Tennille
#49. I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
Gary Numan
#50. Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.
Bill Bryson
#51. All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.
Johnny Hunt
#52. There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
W.S. Gilbert
#53. If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.
John Lydon
#54. I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
#55. I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I've ever seen. I don't dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can't find them.
Roy Keane
#56. When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#57. For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are. Ever
C.S. Lewis
#58. Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.
Marci Shimoff
#59. Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?
Will Rogers
#60. Did you ever notice they never take any fat hostages? You never see a guy coming out of Lebanon going: I was held hostage for seven months and I lost 175 pounds, I feel good and I look good and I learned self-discipline. That's the important thing.
Denis Leary
#61. People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.
Sherry Stringfield
#62. The worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.
Florence L. Barclay
#63. Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it.
Eugene B. Sledge
#64. Well, this whole question of how you work out the narrative is very mysterious. It's a good deal more arbitrary than most people who don't do it would ever believe.
Joan Didion
#65. The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.
George Orwell
#66. The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
Gary Numan
#67. Berdyaev remarks that "no one ever proposes evil ends: evil is always disguised as good, and detracts from the good."[49] Yet the resort to violence is precisely where evil seeps in. Besides,
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
#68. You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done ... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.
Will Rogers
#69. These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border.
Paul Cellucci
#70. I was a terrible employee. I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had, luckily, in a good way, or else I'd be stuck. I would always joke around with everybody, and no one enjoyed my humor.
Anthony Jeselnik
#71. People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'
Mia Hamm
#72. His father looked wistful. 'And you don't feel anticlimatic?'
What's that?'
Somewhat the opposite of elated.'
What's elated again?'
Good feelings. That is to say, very good. You can feel, can't you? That's what I'm driving at. You don't ever wonder ... where feeling went?
Ali Shaw
#73. In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
James Altucher
#74. If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver.
Glenn Beck
#75. You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.
Eric Bana
#76. I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.
Joel Osteen
#77. Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.
Madeleine Albright
#78. He was good. The best fighter she'd ever faced. But Safi and Iseult were better.
Susan Dennard
#79. And you can use that sword, Weland Godfredson?"
"As a woman can use her tongue, lord."
"You're that good, eh?" Ragnar asked, as ever unable to resist a jest.
Bernard Cornwell
#80. Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for? ... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.
Margaret Thatcher
#82. I'd always told myself that I deserve good things, that I was worthy, but if I ever believed it. You can't tell yourself anything. Your heart only believes what it feels, and experience is the best teacher.
Penelope Douglas
#83. Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle
#84. Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.
Jenny Downham
#85. Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.
Bob Schmetterer
#86. Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don't be sure of your path! Don't ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. Nothing is ever guaranteed, but you can't write us off before you even give me a chance to prove that I can be good for you.
Molly McAdams
#88. I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.
Ayn Rand
#89. If the universe is so bad ... how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
C.S. Lewis
#90. And there the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time ... And did she ever come out? ... Not yet.
Gregory Maguire
#91. I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.
Peter Bradley Adams
#92. But there's a small percentage who are nothing but born predators. And for them, no amount of good parenting, quality schooling, or therapy sessions will ever make a bit of difference.
Marcia Clark
#93. Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.
Gladys Taber
#94. Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
Ted Kotcheff
#95. Eragon doubted that he would ever like an Urgal, but the iron certitude of his prejudice only a few minutes before now seemed ignorant, and he could not retain it in good conscience.
Christopher Paolini
#96. I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
Harmony Korine
#97. There is only one good thing science ever discovered - a good thing, good tidings of great joy - that the world is round.
G.K. Chesterton
#98. First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.
Meek Mill
#99. Well after that testosterone-shattering experience, I have no more dignity to worry about. Ever. Anyone have a cushion I can sit on? A really big fluffy one? Hell, let's even make it pale pink with bows on it just for good measure.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#100. Oh, hang it all! what's the good - I mean, the good of living in a room for ever? There one goes on day after day, same old game, same up and down to town, until you forget there is any other game. You ought to see once in a way what's going on outside, if it's only nothing particular after all.
E. M. Forster
