Good Quotes

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

Norton Juster

#2. All good things comes to those who wait.

Violet Fane

#3. Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

Anne Lamott

#4. You know what the opposite of 'rise and shine' is Bridge? 'Good night, and good luck.

Anna Quindlen

#5. While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

Henny Youngman

#6. We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Claude M. Bristol

#8. And what is good, Phaedrus,
And what is not good
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

Robert M. Pirsig

#9. For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#10. Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

Paul Brunton

#11. The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

Chogyam Trungpa

#12. ACCIDENT A condition of affairs in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body better.

Gideon Wurdz

#13. Let's start affecting our whole city, and maybe we can affect the whole nation, the whole world. I'd like to affect it with the fact that God is a good God and He's on your side and He's got a good plan for you and when you put your hand in His, great things can happen.

Joel Osteen

#14. We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.'

Dee Dee Myers

#15. Well," I said finally, knowing he was waiting, "you make me laugh."
He nodded. "And?"
"You're pretty good-looking."
"Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful."
"You want to be beautiful?" I asked him.
"Are you saying I'm not?

Sarah Dessen

#16. Have a very good reason for everything you do.

Laurence Olivier

#17. The world is finite, harmonious, and good.

Plotinus

#18. It was trying to make my tennis game look mildly respectable, which I found you don't even really need to practice if you have a really good editor. They can edit it and you're like, "Hey, it looks like I'm playing really well." That was the fun part, but it was like going to summer camp.

Paul Reiser

#19. we do good when we make others forget their sorrow, make them forget for a little while

Anne Rice

#20. we see it as a means of sharing responsibility for acting together in pursuit of the common good.

Ed O'Malley

#21. Laying a good foundation in all you do secures the future because when the storm comes it will definitely trouble you but you won't fall.
Regards
Esther

Esther Samson

#22. I believe that there is a God's plan for this world, and that plan for this world is for good.

Sarah Palin

#23. The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.

Shania Twain

#24. I was laughing and he was too, and there we were, tangled up together in the water and sunshine. In a good kind of way.

Jessi Kirby

#25. A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all ... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.

Robert Genn

#26. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

Guy Kawasaki

#27. People who look good in glasses mustn't die. And you look wonderful in glasses.

Torii Nagomu

#28. When I stopped drinking ... there were so many things I had to face that I didn't even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.

Jason Isbell

#29. I've got good vibes up here in the Akron area, Cleveland area.

Jason Day

#30. Good morning, magazines! Good morning, bookmarks! Good morning, books!

Gabrielle Zevin

#31. If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.

Christopher Hitchens

#32. Every dangerous road is a good training for us to travel on the more dangerous roads!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#33. People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.

Joel Stein

#34. Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

Giacomo Casanova

#35. If it is in the highest good for all life everywhere ...

Marlo Morgan

#36. Separation is the worst. There's no good way to deal with it, other than to get on the phone and do Skype and try to visit.

Michael Ian Black

#37. I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

Robyn Hitchcock

#38. For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up

Robert Barclay

#39. War is good business Invest your son

Allen Ginsberg

#40. He calls books freedoms. And homes too. They preserve all the good words that we so seldom use. Leniency. Kindness. Contradiction. Forbearance.

Nina George

#41. It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

Adam Kinzinger

#42. It's good to give some of the kids a chance for playing time and some confidence. It doesn't do any good to leave starters out there just to beat a team by 60-70 points.

Sylvia Hatchell

#43. I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.

Chris Hardwick

#44. I bet her dessert is as good as the one I had last weekend, I bet it tastes as good as candy.

L.R. Black

#45. It is easy to catch a disease from another, but not to catch health. The bad will sooner corrupt the good, than the good will convert the bad.

Thomas Watson

#46. I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.

Jerry Della Femina

#47. I had preached again and again that one must never finish off the east for good, that a certain element of conflict must always remain, that a healthy Volk needs a war every twenty five years for the renewal of its blood.

Timur Vermes

#48. Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.

Dave Grohl

#49. A true friend is like a good book, the inside is better than the cover.

Anonymous

#50. Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#51. My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

Ilie Nastase

#52. It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.

Flume

#53. He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies.

Megan Whalen Turner

#54. It's a good thing Jack was no longer in my hands, because I would've pulled a full-on Kylo Ren temper tantrum.

Rick Riordan

#55. Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Joe Biden

#56. Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

Jim Rohn

#57. Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.

Nizar Qabbani

#58. Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life.
Gratefulness leads to good health and happy life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#59. I want to do things that scare me, and also have a good time.

Josh Pais

#60. We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

Lillian Gordy Carter

#61. I never thought that having my world blown right open would feel so goddamn good.

Moira Fowley-Doyle

#62. It's a good thing to be a god," said Shadow. "Is it?" asked Wednesday,

Neil Gaiman

#63. I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me.

Madonna Ciccone

#64. Stone growled and stepped toward Dad, fangs bared. That's a good gargoyle. Take a bite out of Daddy for me.

Devon Monk

#65. You never hear a prophecy start with the gods were in error. If it's good, thank the gods - but if it's bad, it's your own damn fault!

Gregory S. Close

#66. Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.

Pam Brown

#67. Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.

Virat Kohli

#68. To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

Eric Ladin

#69. It's good to kind of go up and down with the love thing.

Yvonne Strahovski

#70. Good shepherds love their sheep and spare no effort when leading them to green pastures and clear water.

Alexander Strauch

#71. We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

Dan Futterman

#72. I bought you a dinner in an elegant restaurant for our first one and took you for a plane ride for our second one. Those were damn good dates, Some woman would kill for that kind of lavishness. seems fiting date three we should be heading to a hotel. " He winked.

Penelope Ward

#73. It took many years for me to see that hope doesn't take sadness away," Blue said sincerely. "But hope reminds you there's something good in spite of the sadness. There's joy still ahead, still yours for the taking.

Natalie Lloyd

#74. Mephistopheles: Over! A stupid word. How so over? Over and pure nothing: completely the same thing! "It's over now!" What's that supposed to mean? It's as good as if it never was.

Jonathan Franzen

#75. The key to a good life is finding things that you want to master.

Lykke Li

#76. There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#77. I'm trouble, but in a good way.

Amanda Seyfried

#78. Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do - not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad.

Stephen King

#79. The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what I may venture to describe as the unsought self-possession, which is a sure sign of good breeding, not in England only, but everywhere else in the civilized world.

Wilkie Collins

#80. Good try, chief, but you are sparring with a master in her craft, and didn't we just discuss not provoking the beast? Geeze, try tosave someone's life and they just throw it out the window.

Quinn Loftis

#81. The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,' ... a transformed life).

J.I. Packer

#82. A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

Tom Morello

#83. I write in complete silence using only two fingers so I can't type faster than I edit at the same time, saving me from having to go back. Although it does create a lot of capitalization issues. And punctuation problems. I didn't say it was a good routine.

Dan Alatorre

#84. I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it ... Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it's not just one person's fault.

Andrew Luck

#85. If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

Gertrude Stein

#86. Note, Religion teaches good manners, and obliges us to give honour to those to whom honour is due.

Matthew Henry

#87. In our opinion, Coke is great from a can, still good from a bottle, yet hard to get just right from the fountain. But oh, when they do get it right, it tastes good enough to be an eighth wonder of the world.

Alecia Whitaker

#88. Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

John Scalzi

#89. God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.

Bob Dylan

#90. If we're going to go farther from Earth, to Mars or somewhere else someday, we have to have a good understanding of the psychological impact on people. And not only psychologically, but how it affects their cognition. We're doing a lot of research on my cognitive abilities.

Scott Kelly

#91. (cleaning out a closet that's been staring at you for months can feel just about as good, brain-wise, as getting a promotion that you've worked for).

Scott G. Halford

#92. Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.

Sharon Jones

#93. I'm not good at the modern world.

Anthony Horowitz

#94. Something new, they had said. They had a perfect day for it. A day with the blue and gold good weather of anyone's primitive childhood expectations, when the new, brief memory tells itself that this is what is, and therefore was, and therefore will be. A good day to see a new place.

A.S. Byatt

#95. I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

Christiaan Barnard

#96. We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it ... That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago.

Rose Bird

#97. A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.

William C. Brown

#98. Magnus kept misplacing his baby. This did not seem a good sign for the future. Magnus was sure you were meant to keep a firm grip on their location. He

Cassandra Clare

#99. In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?"
"No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known.

Libba Bray

#100. I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians ... if we were given that opportunity.

Jack Layton