Top 100 Perfectly Good Quotes
#1. There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself
Osho
#2. States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.
Kenneth Waltz
#4. There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It's just a waste of perfectly good happiness.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
#5. Rowley had thought at first the beast had no name; it had taken him a while to understand that it had a perfectly good, descriptive name to which it was as likely to answer as any other, and that name was Cat. There was something terribly Clem about that.
K.J. Charles
#6. I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.
Mark Twain
#7. Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#8. I happen to think that there are already tons of perfectly good babies out there already born.
Sarah Silverman
#9. Ah, shit," he said, "you wake me up from my own perfectly good dream to show me somebody else's." He
Douglas Adams
#10. The perfectly good car comes with a perfectly dangerous girl.
Victoria Schwab
#11. 3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.
Roger Ebert
#12. Being something for someone else is a perfectly good waste of a life, isn't it?
Camille Pagan
#13. Why clone cats when there's perfectly good Russell Crowe lying around?
Celia Rivenbark
#14. Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this fact and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization.
Patrick Rothfuss
#15. Really was the most tactless person upon earth, - a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#16. Today is a BRAND NEW day - a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#17. Rest assured you make perfectly good nonsense. I understand you one-hundred-percent not at all.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#18. I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.
Paul McGann
#19. Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.
Sabaa Tahir
#20. No!" Shawn whispered harshly. "If you want to break and run then that's your affair. But I've never known you to cower in the corner when there was a perfectly good opportunity to get yourself killed lurking around the next turn.
Abigail Roux
#21. What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.
Cassandra Clare
#22. Please don't let it be another cop. I'm outta bail money. Wait a minute ... I could sell you on eBay and make a killing. (Mark)
Not in my current condition. You'd have to sell Caleb or Madaug. I'm sure there's someone willing to buy two perfectly good white boys. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#23. There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.
Robert Breault
#24. The smell of her hair lingered just out of reach of his memory and left him with a nervous hum resonating throughout his body like a child forced to sit in church while the sun was shining outside on a perfectly good summer's day.
Erik Tomblin
#25. Perfectly good sex?" Cam interrupted us, drawing both our gazes. His voice was low with some unnamed emotion. "Abstain?" His now heated eyes ran the length of me before returning to meet mine. "Then he isn't doing it right.
Samantha Young
#26. What are you doing?" Blake asked.
"Getting rid of it," I said, feeling unusually antsy.
"That's perfectly good J!" Blake protested.
"Sorry." I dumped the last of it.
"Front-row seats at the suicide show," Ginger said. "Lovely.
Wendy Higgins
#27. Refuse to ruin a perfectly good today by thinking about a bad yesterday
Linda Poindexter
#28. Humans are born with two perfectly good lungs, into the only environment in the universe those lungs have evolved over millions of years to breathe in.
Craig Stone
#29. A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
Allan Sherman
#30. I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it.
Rihanna
#31. That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil
widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
George Eliot
#32. A man knows, on perfectly good evidence, that a pretty girl of his acquaintance is a liar and cannot keep a secret and ought not to be trusted: but when he finds himself with her his mind loses its faith in that bit of knowledge
C.S. Lewis
#33. IT'S NOT AS IF IT DOES ANYTHING FOR THE FLAVOUR. WHY DOES ANYONE TAKE A PERFECTLY GOOD DRINK AND THEN PUT IN A CHERRY ON A POLE?
Terry Pratchett
#34. Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#35. Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is like driving through life without a good set of brakes.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#36. A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
Doug Larson
#37. I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
Patricia Heaton
#38. Anyway, he's [Simon] obviously not here. Go back to what you were doing. What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say. And she [Isabelle] stalked off, back toward the bar. - City of Fallen Angels pg 188 hardcover
Cassandra Clare
#39. You just missed a perfectly good opportunity to toast an awful Coldplay T-shirt. If I ever spontaneously combust, I hope I'm holding a whole stack of their CDs. Harper
Joe Hill
#40. Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman
#41. Well, now I felt horrible. I'd marred perfectly good ass cheeks for no reason. It was as if I'd sneezed on the Mona Lisa.
Molly Harper
#42. He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.
Maggie Stiefvater
#43. It infuriated me that men could walk around feeling perfectly good about their appearance whether they had a unibrow, triple chin, or skin flaps hanging off their eyelids, but stunning women like Faidra felt the need to have an unblemished butthole. The world is insane. Not
Jennifer Coburn
#44. There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point.
Estelle Morris
#45. I was almost annoyed at her for spoiling my perfectly good sulk.
Robin Hobb
#46. So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.
Kurt Loder
#47. This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.
Yasmin Mogahed
#48. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#49. It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that).
Richard Fortey
#50. You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you're not good enough because they can't understand who you are.
Barbara Sher
#51. You can still bake a perfectly good cake while losing your mind.
Liane Moriarty
#52. There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
Twyla Tharp
#53. They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures
Tawni O'Dell
#54. Too often we profess God but look to everything else to function as him. Even perfectly good things. Things that in and of themselves are pure and right and gifts from God but have become a problem simply because of the placement they have in our lives.
Kelly Minter
#55. There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.
Wallace D. Wattles
#56. A G-Rated story? About taking some deformed baby and locking him up? And if it was true, and this poor guy had been locked up in there for decades, and someone threw in a perfectly good woman, what the hell do you think he'd do with her? Play Parcheesi?
Kelley Armstrong
#57. I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.
Sylvia Plath
#58. It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
John Irving
#59. ...then tossed the coat into the water. "Hurst! That's a perfectly good coat!"
"Yes, and I have a perfectly good life. One of those two things is not replaceable.
Karen Hawkins
#60. That is fairly tame, I must say. If one is to have a blood sacrifice, I would hope there would at least be a bit more drama about it. Otherwise, it strikes me as a waste of a perfectly good human.
Lauren Willig
#61. How dare that arrogant prick come in here and ruin her perfectly good day? And not to mention the miserable judge, who should have called in sick this morning if he thought the world was such an awful place.
Tanya Thistleton
#62. I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.
Hugh Shelton
#63. Look at her. She looks so harmless and meek, but inside she's a lion. Tory is an adrenaline junkie the likes of which you've probably never seen ... everything from deep-sea diving to base jumping. Hell, she even jumps out of perfectly good airplanes for fun. (Pam)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#64. My lord ... I can explain-," Louis-Cesare began, looking less than certain that he could do anything of the kind.
Radu held up a hand. "I am sure there is a perfectly good reason why my niece is naked and tied to her bed. I am also equally certain that I do not wish to hear it".
Karen Chance
#65. Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas?
Alan G. Robinson
#66. I haven't had a perfect life ... but I have had a perfectly good life!
Kevin Costner
#67. There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.
Emma Forrest
#68. Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.
Hugh Nibley
#69. But when it's read another way, the explanation makes perfectly good sense: Man can never have the wisdom the gods use to rule the world, and if he tries to preempt that wisdom, the result won't be enlightenment, it will be death.
Daniel Quinn
#70. Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.
Jim Benton
#71. God is all-powerful. God is perfectly good. Evil exists. If God exists, there would be no evil. Therefore God does not exist.
Epicurus
#72. Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
Jon Anderson
#73. And then I noticed the small cake that still sat uneaten next to him. And another in front of his mother. That was the last straw. I fully disliked them. How dare they leave perfectly good cake untouched?
Tarun Shanker
#74. We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
Stephen Fry
#75. It doesn't change anything. He pulled back, moving several feet in the blink of any eye. We need to be friends. Or at least get along to the point where you aren't destroying perfectly good fast food when I open my mouth.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#76. But your perfectly good bed doesn't come with a blanket of stars.
Tracy March
#77. It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.
Mallory Ortberg
#78. The Bible says no one has ever looked upon God and lived. God is perfectly good, and can't be in the presence of evil, even the smallest evil. Without his Son's sacrifice as a covering, we can't be in the presence of God without being destroyed, because his anger would be kindled against us.
John Michael Hileman
#80. Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.
Neil Gaiman
#81. When we talk about Poetry, with a capital P, we are apt to think only of the more intense emotions or the more magical phrase: nevertheless there are a great many casements in poetry which are not magic, and which do not open on the foam of perilous seas, but are perfectly good windows for all that.
T. S. Eliot
#82. Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemon grenades?
Melissa De La Cruz
#83. "Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.
John Waters
#84. There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.
Swami Vivekananda
#85. I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
Mike Leigh
#86. Death comes for us all, Brother. You cannot hide from it forever. We will die one day, you and I."
"And that doesn't frighten you?"
Rhy shrugged. "Not nearly as much as the idea of wasting a perfectly good life in fear of it.
V.E Schwab
#87. But you have two perfectly good Doms at your beck and call. You don't need to take taxis and deal with doctors on your own.
Sean Michael
#88. Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.
Gail Carriger
#89. Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.
Bill Johnson
#90. We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.
John Schlesinger
#91. I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.
Mary Pipher
#92. Oh, why does college have to happen to perfectly good people?
Rick Riordan
#93. Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine," he went on, "preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
Aldous Huxley
#94. Perfectly good fruit, simply in being bumped about by chance, indifferently sniffed at, idly handled and overlooked, is sometimes gradually made unfit for those who would otherwise choose it. So it is with lovers.
James Guida
#95. No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.'
'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thing? Which of us has ever tried it?
G.K. Chesterton
#96. Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, 'I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.
Christopher Moore
#97. Laughter is such a healthy exercise. Somebody is laughing - that's perfectly good exercise, join him. Somebody is being playful - if you have time, join him.
Rajneesh
#98. Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk."
"It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?
David Eddings
#99. But why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart? - Taylor Swift
Ann Brashares
#100. He turned it upside down and shook the fries and hamburger into the grave. "In my day, we used animal blood," the ghost mumbled. "It's perfectly good enough. They can't taste the difference." "I will treat them with respect," Nico said. "At least let me keep the toy," the ghost said.
Rick Riordan
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