Good Butcher Quotes

#1. I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

Margaret Thatcher

#2. A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

Carson Daly

#3. God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices
exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

Jim Butcher

#4. They didn't want to kill me. They wanted to hurt me. And they were good at it.

Jim Butcher

#5. I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

Jim Butcher

#6. I finished the beer and sighed. "Arrogance," I said. "I feel stupid." "Good," Michael said. "It's good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn.

Jim Butcher

#7. I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.

Tom Colicchio

#8. Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.

Jim Butcher

#9. Imagine Smaug's treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste.

Jim Butcher

#10. You may never know a night's peace again. Knowledge is power, young man. Power to do good and power to do harm. Some knowledge can hurt. Some can kill.

Jim Butcher

#11. I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser.

Jim Butcher

#12. Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise.

Jim Butcher

#13. My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

Jim Butcher

#14. I react badly to fear. I don't usually have the good sense to run, or hide - I just try to smash whatever it is that is making me afraid. It's a primitive sort of thing, and one I don't question too much.

Jim Butcher

#15. Belief in a story," Uriel said, "of good confronting evil, of light overcoming darkness, of love transcending hate." He tilted his head. "Isn't that where all faith begins?

Jim Butcher

#16. It hurts!" bellowed Ramirez drunkenly, flinging a last pair of bolts at a fleeing ghoul. "Ow! Ow, it hurts! It hurts to be this *good*!

Jim Butcher

#17. Fighting is never good. But sometimes necessary.

Jim Butcher

#18. They always have good coffee here," Ebenezar said a few moments later. "And they don't call it funny names," I said. "It's just coffee. Not frappalattegrandechino.

Jim Butcher

#19. For the good of the people, some must place themselves in harm's way. Some must pledge their courage and their lives to protect the community.

Jim Butcher

#20. I was a man seeking power. For good reasons, maybe. But I wasn't going to lie to myself or anyone else about my actions. If I killed him, I would be taking a life, something that was not mine to take. I would be committing deliberate, calculated murder.

Jim Butcher

#21. Uh, the Council," I said. "Big shock, they aren't helping."
Murphy looked like she might be asleep, but she snorted. "So we're on our own."
Yeah."
Good. It's more familiar.

Jim Butcher

#22. Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

Jim Butcher

#23. Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces. They resound in the heart and mind, they live long after the sounds of them have died away, they echo in the heart and the soul. They have power, and that power is very real. Those three words are good

Jim Butcher

#24. I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions.
But intentions aren't enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you're able to make a choice.
It's the choice that counts.

Jim Butcher

#25. You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

Jim Butcher

#26. Ah, yes. 'And I'll huff. And I'll puff. And I'll blow your house down.' Good-bye, wizard." Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells.

Jim Butcher

#27. A good man, almost by definition, would seriously question any decisions he made that led to such terrible consequences for others. Especially if those others trusted him.

Jim Butcher

#28. If you're having a bad hair day or a bad boy day, he'll whip up one of his yummy mango smoothies for you, sit you down, and say, "Little one, remember what's really important in life: a family that loves you, good friends, and not putting too much garlic in the pesto."
- Chloe Carlson

Nancy Butcher

#29. I'm afraid it isn't good news. The Council seems to have gone quite mad.

Jim Butcher

#30. Oh, good grief. The Mickey Mouse Club of werewolves wanted to throw in on my side.

Jim Butcher

#31. I leaned my head back on the couch and closed my eyes. "I'm not sure what to do next. How are you as a sounding board?"
"I can look interested and nod at appropriate moments," he said.
"Good enough," I said.

Jim Butcher

#32. Those were long odds. Really, really long odds. Ridiculously long odds, really. When you have to measure them in astronomical units, it probably isn't a good bet.

Jim Butcher

#33. You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

Jim Butcher

#34. Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?

Jim Butcher

#35. I've had sex that didn't feel as good as Maeve's smile.

Jim Butcher

#36. The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

Jim Butcher

#37. People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

Jim Butcher

#38. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others
even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are. page 202

Jim Butcher

#39. I flicked a comb through my wet hair, for all the good it would do, and said, "How do I look?"
"Mostly human," she said.
"That's what I was going for.

Jim Butcher

#40. But... my choices haven't always been very good," I said.
"Whose have?" he asked.

Jim Butcher

#41. I run - and not so that I'll be skinny and look good, either. I run so that when something that wants to kill me is chasing me, I'll be good at running.

Jim Butcher

#42. That growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Jim Butcher

#43. It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be - even if it isn't what you expected.

Jim Butcher

#44. Sometimes the things that are good for you, in the long run, hurt for a little while when you first get to them.

Jim Butcher

#45. I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.

Jim Butcher

#46. I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution.

John James Audubon

#47. When the enemies of Spire Albion were in the walls, the great-great granddaughter of old Admiral Tagwynn had refused to have a good lie-down, and it was as simple and as profound as that.

Jim Butcher

#48. Good Lord, I'm regretting this now," I muttered. "I have never - ever - smelled BO this bad in my life. And I once had s'mores wit a Sasquatch."
"Hang out with him for awhile," Mort gasped. "Eventually it's not so bad."
"Wow. Really?"
"No. Not really.

Jim Butcher

#49. I don't know the good or the evil of the thing. That's something that only you mortals worry about.

Jim Butcher

#50. I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn't good business.

Jim Butcher

#51. The world seems dark and ugly sometimes. But there are still good things in it. And good people.

Jim Butcher

#52. We're stunning - and we need to be, if we're to make a good impression and accomplish our goals. It's vain, it's stupid, and it's shallow, but that makes it no less true.

Jim Butcher

#53. The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

Jim Butcher

#54. Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.

Jim Butcher

#55. In this world, there is no such thing as good or bad. If there is flower shop on one side and a butcher's shop on the other, why should we keep spitting? You have to leave away both the bad as well as the good.

Dada Bhagwan

#56. I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

Jim Butcher

#57. We just have to have faith. The good Lord wouldn't give us more than we could bear.

Jim Butcher

#58. The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

Jim Butcher

#59. But I'd never been very good at expressing myself verbally.

Jim Butcher

#60. Good man always stands against that.

Jim Butcher

#61. Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

Jim Butcher

#62. The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

Jim Butcher

#63. Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

Jim Butcher

#64. A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

Jim Butcher