Top 100 No Good Quotes
#1. I'm a Dreamer that's no Secret it's make me Happy, Positive, Satisfied and to see the good side of Life.
Jan Jansen
#2. Oh, alright. You're no fun," he sighed. "My name is Razor."
"What kind of a name is that?"
"It's a nickname."
"What kind of a nickname is that?"
"Spike, Blade, Fang - all the good, deadly objects were already taken. It was the best I could do.
Ada Adams
#3. [Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#4. His hand shone dully in its light. No good for throttling eunuchs, but heavy enough to smash that slimy smile into a fine red ruin.
George R R Martin
#6. There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself
Osho
#7. Amy said, "So, you're making a flamethrower?"
"Amy, we gotta be prepared. We don't know what we'll find in that place, but for all we know it could be the Devil himself."
"David, what possible good is that thing gonna do?"
"Oh, no, you didn't hear me. I said it's a flamethrower." Girls.
David Wong
#8. No matter whether your life is pleasant or good; whether you are having big challenges or no challenges, your state of your mind has everything to do with how you will relate to your experiences.
Louise Hay
#9. My heart is broken," she goes. "It's turned to a piece of stone. I'm no good. That's what's as bad as anything, that I'm no good anymore.
Raymond Carver
#10. Isn't it strange? It's like after they die, you're only allowed to remember the good. But no one's all good.
Victoria Schwab
#12. Life is filled with challenges to be accomplished one by one
But, when you feel good about yourself
There's no hurdle you can't overcome!
Annette Whitaker-Moss
#13. My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?'
Brad Thor
#14. Good grooming is integral and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one will want to give you time or money.
Daymond John
#15. An army isn't made of its officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That's an officer's job.
Bernard Cornwell
#16. Well, I'm sure I hope your health may be good, Louisa; for if your head begins to split as soon as you are married, which was the case with mine, I cannot consider that you are to be envied, though I have no doubt you think you are, as all girls do.
Charles Dickens
#17. Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.
John C. Maxwell
#18. There's one good thing about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.
Robert M. Edsel
#19. Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.
Winston Churchill
#20. Hephaestus glowered up at us. "I didn't make you, did I?"
Uh," Annabeth said, "no, sir."
Good," the god grumbled. "Shoddy workmanship.
Rick Riordan
#21. A good story, well told, makes you realize you were yearning for something you had no name for, something you didn't even know you wanted.
F.S. Michaels
#22. A thing cannot be delivered enough times:
this is the rule of dogs for whom there are no fool's errands.
To loop out and come back is good all alone.
It's gravy to carry a ball or a bone.
Kay Ryan
#23. That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.
Charles Dickens
#25. All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.
John Arbuthnot
#26. (Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)
Stanley Cavell
#27. There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.
Lancelot Andrewes
#29. The good thing about the truth is it's true, and there's no arguing with the truth. You may not like it, but that doesn't make it any less true.
Kami Garcia
#30. Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.
Gurney Williams
#31. If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.
Mao Zedong
#32. Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. No day is so bad that it can not be fixed by a good nap.
Carrie Snow
#34. Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.
John Dewey
#35. It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.
Genevieve Bell
#36. It's no wonder we are so messed up when it comes to walking with God. In nearly every aspect of our existence, good performance equals good reward. Except not with him. A good thing turns bad when we perform to earn God's acceptance rather than simply receive it like a gift.
Emily P. Freeman
#38. I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.
Ron Ben-Israel
#40. If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.
Hakim Ibn Hizam
#41. The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say.
Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway
Richard Wagamese
#42. I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.
Hans Fritzsche
#43. I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.
Louis Sachar
#44. I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.
Norman Vincent Peale
#45. But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.
Leo Tolstoy
#46. No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
Olive Schreiner
#47. There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern life.
Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
Tom McDonough
#48. No-not other than making a record that I was satisfied with. That's usually my only goal-to make it good enough to hopefully put out there. I just tried to finish what I started, as far as my ideas for the record. Hopefully I was able to do it.
David Eugene Edwards
#49. Your love for your friend should be grounded in Me, and for My sake you should love whoever seems to be good and is very dear to you in this life. Without Me friendship has no strength and cannot endure. Love which I do not bind is neither true nor pure.
Thomas A Kempis
#50. No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.
Natalie Wright
#51. Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.
Bertrand Russell
#53. Sometimes being a good friend is about saying no, about trying to do what's best for your friend regardless of what they say.
Gitty Daneshvari
#54. Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#55. He looked like a butler dressed by his four-year-old daughter - a mishmash of good intentions and ill design. And there I was, an unshaven, rumpled page of discarded poetry, extending a hand and smiling, no doubt wolfishly.
Walter Mosley
#56. Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.
Aaron Shepard
#57. When I write, I'm looking to turn you on and tell a good story. No more, no less. No lofty goals here.
Kirsten McCurran
#58. I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.
Jamie Bell
#59. No amount of money can buy you style. Having good style takes thought, creativity, confidence, self-awareness, even sometimes a little bit of work.
Sophia Amoruso
#60. There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
W.S. Gilbert
#61. No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
Hosea Ballou
#62. What makes us humans? We are not good or bad. We are yes, no, and maybe all at once. Machines are neither good or back either. It is the people using them who make the distinction.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#63. We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace. It's an outrage. We must do everything in our power to keep those treaties. Otherwise, the word of the United States government is no good.
John McCain
#64. I hate metaphors. That's why my favorite book is Moby Dick. No frou-frou symbolism. Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal.
Ron Swanson
#65. A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
W. Somerset Maugham
#66. Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.
Max Euwe
#67. If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
Bertrand Russell
#68. The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.
Neal A. Maxwell
#69. Very good. But your most insidious chronic problem is in the area of . . . how shall I put this precisely . . . subordination. You argue too much." "No, I don't," Miles began indignantly, then shut his mouth.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#70. [T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants
neither alcohol nor meat
are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.
Angela Carter
#71. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#72. When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#73. It is no good worrying about things that are out of your hands
Matt Thomas
#74. No good will remain unrewarded, if not by men, then by God.
Sunday Adelaja
#75. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
Mitt Romney
#76. There's nothing fated in our stars. No meant-to-be in any of it. We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe. And that's okay. These seven billion billion atoms are good with that.
Rick Yancey
#77. So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.
Johnny Cash
#78. Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.
Marci Shimoff
#79. There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.
Pliny
#80. There's pressure to deliver as good of a movie with a little bit more of a budget, and that to me ... to me the hardest thing always is, I just want to deliver a good movie no matter what the budget is and no matter where we shoot it or any of those things.
Neal H. Moritz
#81. When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.
Hulk Hogan
#82. Nah, he's a good person, and fun, too. The point is, he called saying that he was in trouble, and need our help." "No, Patrick, you're the one who needs help.
Ryan Roy
#83. Why you no good, scruffy looking, nerf herder!
George Lucas
#84. He gazed into her eyes. "I was never any good at saying no to you." He cupped her face and put his forehead to hers. "I was going to protest, and then give in." Aribelle smiled. "I hope you never get good at saying no to me.
Victorine E. Lieske
#85. Stevie Wonder doing [carpool karaoke] it was a massive turning point because he's Stevie Wonder. Like, there's no one else in the world who can go, I don't really want to do it. And you go oh, so it's good enough for Stevie Wonder but it's not good enough for you?
James Corden
#86. It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.
Tom Wilkinson
#87. No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good ... she took long naps, never got old, and didn't have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.
Olive Green
#88. A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.
Henry Cloud
#89. Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night
Emily Dickinson
#90. There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems we must not neglect. For example, energy, resources, costs, social aspects - one must always pay attention to all these.
Eduardo Souto De Moura
#91. The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.
George Orwell
#92. There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.
Immodesty Blaize
#93. The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be "Who do we hate?", he thought, it really should be "whom", but this probably wasn't a good time to bring that up.
Eoin Colfer
#94. He cleared his throat. "One good thing about the range, Starling, is there's no politics out there." "No?" "You were right to secure that garage up at Baltimore there. You worried about the TV?
Thomas Harris
#96. I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
Al Yankovic
#97. He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman.
E. M. Forster
#98. Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!
Sylvia Kristel
#99. Somehow, the Good Lord don't want to see no man start a cold morning with just black coffee.
Robert Newton Peck
#100. There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.
Publilius Syrus