Top 100 Good They Quotes
#1. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
#2. His eyes lit up. "Oh, it's the Vanderbilts! They make these pumpkin and banana pancakes that are so good, they will make you want to slap your momma."
"I already want to," I muttered under my breath.
"What's that?"
"Nothing. Let's go.
Shelly Crane
#3. It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
Harvey Pekar
#4. You can actually herd cats. They can't be forced, of course. But if they sense something they want, if there enticed by something good, they'll follow, even in herds.
Ron Suskind
#5. I think even like Saddam Hussein or Hitler would wake up and say, "I think it's going to be a good day. I'm gonna do some really important work." And given their definition of good, they went out and did horrible things.
George Saunders
#6. Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
M. Stanton Evans
#7. The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.
Martina Navratilova
#8. Today, most of the good people are afraid to be good. They strive to be broadminded and tolerant
Edith Star Miller
#9. Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.
Mary Tyler Moore
#10. Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.
Dick Butkus
#11. You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.
George Carlin
#12. The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
Charles De Secondat
#13. May everybody get whatever good they wish for!
Shon Mehta
#14. I don't think I've ever seen pie advertised. That's how you know it's good. They advertise ice cream and other desserts. They advertise the bejeezus out of yogurt, but I haven't seen one pie commercial.
Adam Carolla
#15. Television in America is so elaborate. There are so many remote cranes, and they have all the toys to play with. The directors are really good. They really work with you. So, I'm not really on set thinking, "Oh, my God, this is television. It's very different."
Franka Potente
#16. Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.
Len Wein
#17. The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Charles Buxton
#18. The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act.
Dean Koontz
#19. The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.
Louise Nurding
#20. dreamweaves were doing more harm than good. They were endangering people, making them believe in a false sense of security. Resulting in a population of delusional people, running around, taking unnecessary risks. And I think we all know that nothing good comes of that!
Alyson Noel
#21. The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.
Harold Hamm
#22. Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
E. M. Forster
#23. The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.
Peter DeFazio
#24. Become so good they can't ingore you,
and you are on the path to success.
Become so good they can't stand you,
and you are on the path to greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. I'm not a big fan of remakes. And even if they are good, they're still not as good as the original, so what's the point?
Rob Zombie
#26. Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.
Adrian Grenier
#27. I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.
Neil Sheehan
#28. The rise of the citizen review site is a sobering development. No longer are you on top of the mountain, blasting your marketing message down to the masses through your megaphone. All of a sudden, the masses are conversing with one another. If your service or product isn't any good, they'll out you.
David Pogue
#29. There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breathe or eat or love.
Alexandra Fuller
#30. They are so good they can get serial killers before they even get started.
Marshall Thornton
#31. I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.
Jack Dee
#32. If you're really good, they'd taught him at Quantico, you don't have to be arrogant.
Tom Clancy
#33. If placebo effects were this good, they should just make placebos the way to treat depression - maybe that's what they did; maybe Zoloft was cornstarch.
Ned Vizzini
#34. No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
Carlos Fuentes
#35. We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.
Cynthia Breazeal
#36. Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#37. Supervision is an opportunity to bring someone back to their own mind, to show them how good they can be.
Nancy Kline
#38. It was a cheap school, you know, and the teachers weren't very good. They could never answer questions properly."
"Very few teachers can," I{Jerry}said.
"Why not? They ought to."
I agreed.
Agatha Christie
#39. As a thinker, and most writers would consider themselves thinkers, your competition is not only the whole world, but it's also the people of the past, and the people of the future. And the people of the future are the dangerous ones, because you'll never know how good they are.
Jarod Kintz
#40. Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.
Ambrose
#41. If in the men who are supposed to be good they only see a "virtue" which is effectively less vital and less interesting than their own vices they will conclude that virtue has no meaning and will cling to what they have although they hate it.
Thomas Merton
#42. Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt.
Michelle Obama
#43. Some automatic responses are good - they're skills, and we need them for life and labor. But the tendency to accumulate programming tends to have a life of its own - or more accurately, to steal the life that belongs to us.
John Shirley
#44. The success-haters. That's what I call them
the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.
Zoe Akins
#46. That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.
Sessue Hayakawa
#47. In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say 'Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it!' To which I reply 'Well, why? It's already a book.
Orson Scott Card
#48. I can get others to do what you do. They won't be as good, but ... okay. It could work. But it doesn't matter because no matter how good they are, they can't replace you. They can't because I don't need you only for what you can do. I need you ... for you.
Karen Chance
#49. People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?
Caryl Churchill
#50. Don't worry," I said. "These men are good. They're going to heal the world.
Maria V. Snyder
#52. Gays don't have a lot of testosterone. I'm talking about that they use both sides of their brain. Straight men only use one side. Gay men are very bright, very handsome ... they put themselves better together. They dress good, they decorate, they clean, they cook.
Patti Stanger
#53. The estate taxes, on balance, are good. They get people to give money to charity, and they prevent these family dynasties which keep other people from having opportunities. It may be good for a family, but for society it's probably not good. And I've always been in favor of having an estate tax.
Michael Bloomberg
#54. We are to be brought through the fire, not left in it.
and you know what?
to anyone that ever told you that you're no good ... they're no better.
Hayley Williams
#56. Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.
John Rogers
#57. No matter how comfortable I felt at SymboGen, I needed to remember how good they were at taking things and reducing them to their lowest common denominator.
Mira Grant
#58. On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it's good, they say, 'Let's do another one for insurance.'
Rhys Ifans
#59. The sadness is that words hurt and can cause many a conflict, however when used for good they create waves of optimism and hope.
Paul Isaacs
#60. Is that the destiny of all friendships, no matter how good they are? To die out or fade away? To end?
Sara Zarr
#61. She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.
Kurt Vonnegut
#62. I just want you to know, I will not be falling slave to your devil dick and demon tongue. No matter how good they are.
Kylie Scott
#63. Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles
#64. Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.
Kenneth Branagh
#65. Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.
Matt McGorry
#66. She was probably having a few murderous thoughts of her own about any woman that touched him. Good, they were making progress.
R.L. Mathewson
#67. I love cooking but I still always go and sneak a little bit of sides from Boston Market, and it's so good. They're so good.
Kate Walsh
#68. A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!
Homer
#69. Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.
Dave Eggers
#70. The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way.
Barbara Park
#71. Kids are really good at ignoring the heavy-handed message and getting with the fun parts. It's good they are, because adults have devoted a lot of effort writing them message thinly disguised as stories and clubbing children over the head with them.
Jo Walton
#72. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.
Prince
#73. He establishes every purpose by counsel (Prov. 20:18). God, indeed, uses carnal men to very good service, but without a thorough altering and conviction of their judgment. He works by them, but not in them. Therefore they do neither approve the good they do nor hate the evil they abstain from.
Richard Sibbes
#74. I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#75. Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off
Dylan Moran
#76. How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love is.
Carole Maso
#77. The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.
John Lasseter
#78. We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. The last thing I need is more high school drama but a support group that doesn't dig into my personal business sounds good. They can keep the drama for themselves.
Nikki Godwin
#80. I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.
Emmylou Harris
#81. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.
Karin Slaughter
#82. saw it coming. See, they built me too good. They didn't figure in
David Baldacci
#83. If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.
Travis Barker
#84. I don't like the word "hero." There are no heroes in war. As soon as someone picks up a weapon, they can no longer be good. They won't be able to.
Svetlana Alexievich
#85. As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#86. I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
Hal Sutton
#87. To anyone that ever told you you're no good.. they're no better.
Hayley Williams
#88. If it's good, they'll stop making it.
Herblock
#89. Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people
and allow people to place themselves
according to their strengths.
Peter Drucker
#90. They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.
Tom Cruise
#91. When people see good, they expect good. I don't want to have to live up to anyone's expectations.
L.J.Smith
#92. If you look good, you feel good, If you feel good, you play good, If you play good, they pay good.
Deion Sanders
#93. See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.
John Of The Cross
#94. No one should be able to tail me unnoticed, no matter how good they are.I'm supposed to be better.
Santino Hassell
#95. I guess I learned that even though most people are good, they can be talked into doing bad things by one or two jerks...And I guess, people sometimes need someone who can stand up and remind them that they are good people and they know what's right.
Christopher Scotton
#96. When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have a plot, really, what shall you rely on? Just language. And sometimes I am so afraid of writing the wrong thing, I just sit and wait for the right thing to come.
Per Petterson
#97. I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.
Robert Englund
#98. Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.
Thomas Mars
#99. The nerves are good ... they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident.
Myles Jury
#100. Were genuine aliens to find us ... the chances were fairly good they would appear in a form beyond reckoning, shaped by the requirements of their environment. It was only for the convenience of the costume department of Star Trek that people believed in humanoid aliens.
Thomm Quackenbush
