Good But Quotes

#1. Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.

Jackie Robinson

#2. They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.

Harvey Korman

#3. I like charcoal drawing a lot. I'm not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I'm on location, because I always have this ambition to fill the hotel room I'm in and turn it into an art studio.

Ben Schnetzer

#4. Some activities may look attractive, but you don't have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

Brigham Young

#6. At home we've played very bad. That's the reality. We finished good, but we had problems at home.

Andres Nocioni

#7. The more you see of evil, the more evil seems limitless. I guess the same goes for good, but I haven't seen as much of that.

Danielle Paige

#8. The woman didn't taste bad, but she tasted wrong. She smelled good, but it wasn't right.

Kresley Cole

#9. Thinking is not always ... comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.

Robin Hobb

#10. Perks are good, but they are not culture.

Ben Horowitz

#11. I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

Al Kaline

#12. I wondered if this wasn't a case of making the ideal an enemy of the good, but Salatin was convinced that industrial organic was finally a contradiction in terms. I decided I had to find out if he was right.

Michael Pollan

#13. It's moments like those that make me want to slap him, not that slapping him would do any good, but it would make me feel better.

Rick Yancey

#14. As parties go, the food is good but the hosts are complete assholes.

Eliza Crewe

#15. It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.

Cheryl Strayed

#16. I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

Anita Loos

#17. I'll always take care of you Rule, in fact I like doing it because it makes me happy and it feels good but I'm not ever going to let you use me to work out your demons like you did with all those girls that came before me so you better learn the difference.

Jay Crownover

#18. I do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well.

Emerson Fittipaldi

#19. Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.

Jerry Hall

#20. At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.

Jon Crosby

#21. Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

John Ruskin

#22. Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.

Andy Rooney

#23. People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#24. The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way.

Joel Spolsky

#25. Every good that you do, every good that you say, every good thought you think, vibrates on and on and never ceases. The evil remains only until it is overcome by good, but the good remains forever.

Peace Pilgrim

#26. So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#27. It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times.

Jeffrey Fry

#28. Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Althea Gibson

#29. They're good but not all as good as each other.

Brian Spellman

#30. Christ continually shouts through the universe, "You have a love that is already yours. You have nothing to prove to anyone. You have nothing to prove to Me. You are significant and preapproved and utterly cherished. Not because you are 'good,' but because you are Mine.

Jennifer Dukes Lee

#31. Every person must be good, but every person need to be an evil

Bokir166

#32. Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

Albert Einstein

#33. You can make an idea spread for good but you can also make an idea spread for bad and the power to make an idea spread, memetics, you know which now people talk about memes.

Jay Roach

#34. Computers are good, but only while they are working. Otherwise, they are no more use than a paperweight

Farahad Zama

#35. Like us, our children crave the blessed benediction: "You are good!" But the Bible says that because we are not good, those words no longer apply to us. We're not good.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#36. Be Happy ...
Not Because Everything Is Good But Because You Can See The Good In Everything

Unknown

#37. Failure will never feel good, but be unafraid of it and you will eventually achieve anything you work your ass for.

Ben Tolosa

#38. If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.

Albert Oehlen

#39. The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

Sean Covey

#40. Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.

Schoolboy Q

#41. Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Demosthenes

#42. It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

Billy Gibbons

#43. Everything in the world is good. But if you're not careful, even good things can turn against you

Eiji Yoshikawa

#44. There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.

Donald Glover

#45. When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open
up.

Iyanla Vanzant

#46. If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Idries Shah

#47. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.

Rabindranath Tagore

#48. To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Leo Tolstoy

#49. My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

Stockwell Day

#50. Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

Terence McKenna

#51. There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.

Rene Descartes

#52. Lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!

Rick Riordan

#53. Ross said, "They play even during an attack. Not very good. But inspiring. Have you heard the Rebel yell?" Fremantle nodded. "Godawful sound. I expect they learned it from Indians.

Michael Shaara

#54. Everyday may not be good but there's something good in everyday ...

Kenneth G. Ortiz

#55. When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!

Zoe McLellan

#56. I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

Ted Rall

#57. Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

Rachel Cusk

#58. Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.

John Adams

#59. As an observer, you can clearly see that Western countries are war-weary and don't want to be pulled into new conflicts. They always proclaim their will to fight for Israel in an emergency. That's good but what if that's not at all true when the time comes?

Ronald Lauder

#60. Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.

Stephen Charnock

#61. If you can forget me, that's well and good. But if you can't, accept your defeat and surrender to me. Don't try to fight with my memories. I love you!

Nelson Jack

#62. The unfortunate reality is we are probably missing your work. Not because it's not good, but because we've learned to tune it out.

Jeff Goins

#63. Love is skewed. Love is being strong when he is weak. Love is obsessive and offensive and not any good, but he's mine.

Mary Elizabeth

#64. I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure.

Richard Krajicek

#65. ... walk in the footprints of his ancestors. This land is a museum of man's ancient history. The American has gone to the moon and found dust, he's going farther away to look for other planets, very good. But know thyself first. That is what I would tell my American friend.

Tsegaye Gebre Medhin

#66. Different denotes neither bad nor good, but it certainly means not the same.

The Mad Hatter

#67. When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.

Facundo Pieres

#68. People are generally good but easily corrupted.

Vanya Asher

#69. Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.

N.M. Silber

#70. I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout

Harper Lee

#71. I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.

Charles Bukowski

#72. A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing.

Dick King-Smith

#73. Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.

Barbara Kingsolver

#74. The world is filled with good, but it's equally overwhelmed with bad. People who commit horror and evil. You have to concentrate on what you can do, what you can influence. The ones who you can hunt down.

Robert Bryndza

#75. When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely ... Having a big family solves that problem.

Michael Chabon

#76. Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have.

Plato

#77. Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.

Swami Vivekananda

#78. My big break was when I won 'Search for a Supermodel Australia,' and then I came second in the world series, and that was all good, but I was just having fun; it wasn't real to me.

Nicole Trunfio

#79. Good. But why written in three styles of script?" To which Nancy had replied: "Because I'm not grown-up enough to be one person with one kind of signature.

Truman Capote

#80. Empty women, who strive for no good but exist to adorn themselves ... These women of majestic pride, fantastic coiffures, outlandish ornament, and necks bound with gold or pearls bear the glittering symbols of their captivity to men.

Laura Cereta

#81. In theory, the idea of eternity in heaven singing God's praises sounds really good, but when I realize I have to go through the death part to get there, I'm not quite so enamored with the idea.

Kim Hunt Harris

#82. The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty; the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.

Plato

#83. Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.

Valerie Solanas

#84. Obama does look good, but he could look better. The most important thing for politicians is to keep their clothes really simple and make sure their clothing actually fits.

Thom Browne

#85. John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

Samuel Johnson

#86. And since there are three scales of intelligence, one which understands by itself, a second which understands what is shown it by others, and a third which understands neither by itself nor on the showing of others, the first of which is most excellent, the second good, but the third worthless,

Niccolo Machiavelli

#87. It's just I get this feeling
and I can't believe I'm telling you this
but I get this feeling that life with him will be really, really good, but that I'm not a key part of that. You could take me out of the equation, replace me with someone else, and it would be the same equation.

Scott Hutchins

#88. Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

Mark Twain

#89. When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, but sometimes it is not good. I hope it's good in my case.

Adelina Sotnikova

#90. The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.

Shane Claiborne

#91. Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

Benjamin Zander

#92. Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

Richard Armitage

#93. Interagency cooperation was all well and good, but it was understood to be the sport of the aristocracy; rank-and-file workers like Jacob were expected to keep to their own kind.

Robert Kroese

#94. I was scared into being good. But I'm sure I did regular kid stuff.

Larry The Cable Guy

#95. I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

Emilia Clarke

#96. I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.

C.S. Lewis

#97. Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."

Zephyr Teachout

#98. I fart, you fart, he farts, she farts.
Let's not deny it, people. Farting is a regular, healthy, and hilarious part of life. Squeezing out big plumes of noxious gas doesn't always smell good, but it generally feels might fine.

Neil Pasricha

#99. Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

#100. Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

Patrick Rothfuss