Top 100 Good To Quotes
#1. But I care myself if I tell fibs; I never tell them unless there's something rather good to be gained.
Henry James
#2. Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.
Barbara Kingsolver
#3. As my grandmother used to say, if you've got nothing good to say about someone, let's hear it.
Lawrence Block
#4. I hope they remember the good stuff, when I was a baby, a toddler, when they still had hopes and dreams for their little girl, their miracle child. In truth they were good to me. They were only doing what they knew how to do; what they thought was best.
Julie Anne Peters
#5. I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
Taylor Schilling
#6. We have had some great shows this summer, the Jammin Against the Darkness event was pretty incredible and it was good to see everyone at the festivals. Today we head to South Dakota for the start of the tour with Falling Up, The Wedding and Mainstay.
John Reuben Zappin
#7. It was a sunny, beautiful day.a day you felt good to be alive. Tobad amy Cahill was surrounded by the dead. Amy bowed her head and squeezed Her eyes shut. She was only sixteen, but she had attended too many funerals. She had said to many goodbyes
Jude Watson
#8. As you get older no doubt you'll change automatically, just like I did. You will learn all the tricks. You will dress much better, and talk much more, and listen much less. And you'll start to realise that it never does one much good to take anything too seriously at all.
Caroline Blackwood
#9. It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
Bill Paxton
#10. It just feels good to play again. That's what keeps me going. I've focused harder because of it.
Reggie Evans
#11. It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.
Larry David
#13. I just love that. Give people something good to live up to - something great - and they usually will. In fact, often they'll even exceed those expectations.
Bob Burg
#14. She cradled his head and bowed over him, wiping her damp cheeks with one hand.
"We're so different from each other."
"We live a long time. It's good to not be bored.
Thea Harrison
#15. If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily.
Brad Goreski
#16. The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities.
Richard Carlson
#17. Learning is never a bad thing. And neither is changing your mind about things ... It's always good to reevaluate. To think and consider all sides.
Miranda Kenneally
#18. The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.
John Piper
#19. It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.
Bill Gates
#20. It was good to be where you belong... And best to do the things you can live with. Even if it killed you in the short run.
J.R. Ward
#21. This man, who had been through so much hardship, was not just generous; he was too good to be true. He put me first. He was concerned for my well-being.
M. Clarke
#22. Remember sarcasm is forbidden and sincerity the order of the day. You are country folks now, and it will do you good to try their simple, honest ways for a few days.
Louisa May Alcott
#23. It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher.
Saul Bellow
#24. I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.
Clemence Poesy
#25. Jimmy: (in a low, resigned voice) They all want to scape from the pain of being alive. And, most of all, from love. ( ... ) It's no good to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands.
John Osborne
#26. It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted
Mary Renault
#27. You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#28. Halfway through the televised debate I kick my boot into the screen. Even on mute I can't stand it. It feels good to smash the TV, though. I feel like I'm participating in the political system.
Joey Comeau
#29. Instead of asking, "Why is there war?" we might ask, "Why is there peace?" We can obsess not just over what we have been doing wrong but also over what we have been doing right. Because we have been doing something right, and it would be good to know what, exactly, it is.
Steven Pinker
#30. It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.
Chris Zylka
#31. I see L.A. as a workplace rather than somewhere to live. If I don't get out, I go crazy. If you have a little success, people treat you differently, so it's good to keep a healthy perspective. It's acting, not rocket science.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#33. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#34. It's good to have a Ranger," Lula said. "He's like a personal Spidey.
Janet Evanovich
#35. So you do read the papers. Usually kids your age need a bomb up their backsides, but it's good to see you've got your wits about you.
Cecelia Ahern
#36. It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
#37. Everyone is a flux - so it's good to suspend judgements forever.
Frederick Lenz
#38. You are a beautiful and beloved individual. It is good to be you. We will love you no matter what you do, as long as you are you.
M. Scott Peck
#40. I can't remember who told me but I was advised early on not to Google myself or read things about myself ... I don't read a lot but get the gist of what's been said from friends and family. It's good to avoid it if you want to be normal person.
Leona Lewis
#41. It's not good to thicken sauce with too much butter because it can cause heaviness. You don't want to avoid butter, but you also don't want to put too much - add it slowly.
Daniel Boulud
#42. There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even should we be deceived, still the good to ourselves resulting from a kind act is worth more than the trifle by which we purchase it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#43. And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.
Salma Hayek
#44. 'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.
Margot Robbie
#45. Go find someone who will care for ye good, to sit quiet by yore side at the fire, an' if he treats ye decent as you hoped he would, you'll have all that your heart can desire.
Brian Jacques
#47. But, those who did good to Allah and the people, Allah will give them reward by bestowing upon them His grace.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#48. The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.
Evander Holyfield
#49. It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it, but hopefully some day I'll figure it out.
Doug Martsch
#50. And when I think there are people around me who complain they can't find anything good to read. What nonsense ... every month you and I discover a masterpiece.
Laurence Cosse
#51. What makes a show good for me, personally, is a mystery that just doesn't quit. I want to know why. Why did this happen? Why is this phenomenon occurring? Why did that person do that? A series is really good to me that takes its time in answering those questions.
Mark Pellegrino
#52. My lord, do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way." There
Ursula K. Le Guin
#53. Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.
Penn Jillette
#54. You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought
Lauren Bacall
#55. I haven't got an opportunity to experiment with the dimensions of my moustache much. But yes, if the role demands, I'm ready to shave it off. I feel it's good to have moustaches for South films, but I'd love to remove my moustache; why not?
Ravi Teja
#56. You have control over your own thoughts.
Why not choose thoughts that feel good to you?
Unknown
#57. It's good to listen to lots of different stuff, just whatever you like. The first two records I ever bought were Alice Cooper, Killer and Jethro Tull, Aqualung. That's two weird records to begin with, but I think they hold up well.
James Hetfield
#58. Last night the Taliban offered to release eight Westerners if the U.S. promised not to attack. The State Department declined but thanked the Taliban for the offer, saying it really felt good to laugh again.
Tina Fey
#59. Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.
Josh Billings
#60. The sun now radiated all around me and the magnificent palace that lay before me glittered invitingly. Which reminded me of another one of Mother's sayings: if something appears too good to be true, it probably is.
Jessie Harrell
#61. It's not good to put in a magazine what I weigh because it's too little. People freak out when they hear what I weigh. They think, 'Oh, you're too skinny.'
Elizabeth Banks
#62. I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
Harold Prince
#63. A good cry can be wonderful sometimes, and sadness is nothing more than love announced. Sadness and Unhappiness are not the same thing, and it is good to remember that. And there is this: sadness cleanses the heart.
Neale Donald Walsch
#64. A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.
John Steinbeck
#65. Wager: It's good to see you smiling.
Connor: There's not a whole hell of a lot to smile about. Some freak of nature attacked me today, my best friend has run off with the key, and I need to get laid.
Sylvia Day
#66. When I walk through an airport and people go, 'You're not fat!' I'm like, 'Thanks. That's great. Good to know I'm not fat today! Thank you!'
Jessica Simpson
#67. I had a really tragic cut at the beginning of Season 2 of 'Ally McBeal.' Someone convinced me that it would be good to layer my hair. I basically looked like Ronald McDonald.
Jane Krakowski
#68. Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.
John Mayer
#69. When you're nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn't do any good to hammer in more nails. Now
Wallace Stegner
#70. Finally, this is better, that one do His own task as he may, even though he fail, Than take tasks not his own, though they seem good. To die performing duty is no ill; But who seeks other roads shall wander still.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.
Elif Shafak
#72. So 'fatal' only kills you two out of three times these days? That's good to know.
Elle Lothlorien
#73. Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
Joseph Campbell
#75. As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.
Blake Mycoskie
#76. It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
Anne Lamott
#77. I think it's good to live an artful life.
Adam Driver
#78. The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend, makes me feel warm and good inside. I knew his name and it was good to see him again, cause in the wind he's still alive.
Ted Nugent
#79. It is the crow of the cock that announced the break of the day
Meaning: It is good to act in time ... ik
Ikechukwu Joseph
#80. It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.
Marilynne Robinson
#81. Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren?
Do I care?
Doesn't everybody?
Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!
Kurt Vonnegut
#82. Hopeless of the future, I wished but this- that my Maker had that night thought good to require my soul of me while I slept; and that this weary frame, absolved by death from further conflict with fate, had now but to decay quietly, and mingle in peace with the soil of this wilderness.
Charlotte Bronte
#84. I like to carry a concealer palette that has a green, a yellow, and a tan color. I like to carry the green one because when I have a pimple, it's good to use that to contrast the red. Then you put the yellow over it, and it helps it disappear.
Francia Raisa
#85. Don't touch me
i said
because i can't
handle
someone being
good to me.
David Levithan
#86. Thais looked up from the book. For a moment he considered telling Kathel he didn't really see anything, but knew it would do no good to lie. "The book recognized me." Honesty won out. "Of course it did," Kathel said sarcastically. "Does it want a kiss hello?"
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance
Madison Thorne Grey
#87. In a word, the nature and experience of things dictated to me, upon just reflection, that all the good things of this world are no farther good to us than they are for our use; and that, whatever we may heap up to give others, we enjoy just as much as we can use, and no more.
Daniel Defoe
#88. It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat.
Jim Webb
#89. As if your essence were hung up in a closet like a dress too good to be worn and you were reduced to going out in only your appearance.
Angela Carter
#90. In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.
Vinoba Bhave
#91. Today, like any other day, is totally incomprehensible. It's good to be in a state of wonder and be alive to what's happening.
Art Hochberg
#92. Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.
Sylvia Plath
#94. Bone grease with dried meat and berries to make pemmican, the energy bars of a thousand years ago, and with a pouch of pemmican, the Native Americans were good to travel far and wide. (If you can't pack portable food, you spend most of your time hunting and foraging).
Marilyn Johnson
#95. I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.
Keren Ann
#96. You know, Ava, it's good to be smart, but kindness is more important.
Anita Diamant
#98. It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog - you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.
Steve Pavlina
#99. I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.
David Ortiz
#100. It's always good to see that someone can go out of Iceland and do some things.
Tomas Lemarquis
