Top 100 What Good Is Quotes
#1. What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?
DJ Shadow
#3. Have you seen some of the crap they're selling as exercise equipment now? How about that Suzanne Somers? She should have been thrown in jail for selling the piece-of-crap Thigh Master. It just develops a little muscle on the inner thigh. What good is that?
Jack LaLanne
#5. What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? - William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Jodi Picoult
#6. What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
Edward Abbey
#7. What good is a song that doesn't break your heart?
Marty Rubin
#8. What good is ye world when ye canst not livest hither.
K. Hari Kumar
#9. For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?
Roy Peter Clark
#10. Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.
Thomas A Kempis
#11. If I were you," Tom said, "I should stick to reading, writing and arithmetic." "But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?" Tom held up his hands. "I'm sorry, you're losing me." Mary exhaled smoke. "Possibly I am.
Chris Cleave
#12. Beauty fades. But love? Love is a fire that needs sex to be burning strong. What good is a man who doesn't own a match to light your fire?" I
J.C. Reed
#13. What good is winning a battle, if you don't even realise there's a war going on?
Aravind Adiga
#15. What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?
H.G.Wells
#16. What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.
Simon Sinek
#17. Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There's food all around you, you know.' 'What kind of food, I'd like to know?' 'Ah'-he smiled- 'you must taste all things, actually to know if you like them.' And what good is that, I wanted to ask, if the most delicious fruit is forbidden?
Claire Messud
#18. What good is it to be rich if we canna scrape up the scratch to buy a political prisoner on a whim?
Kresley Cole
#19. What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.
Paulo Coelho
#20. What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
Martin Luther King Jr.
#21. It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown ... it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe ... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?
George R R Martin
#22. What good is the present if you cannot change the future?
Robert Liparulo
#23. What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?
J-Ro
#25. I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?
Spencer W. Kimball
#27. good is what we built when it leads to this? What good is knowledge when stupidity and ignorance will always trump it? Well,
David D. Hammons
#28. -we wish you-"
"-a tale-"
"-worth telling."
"Not luck?" asked Vikram.
The gate heaved with wet laughter.
"-what good is-"
"-such a thing.
Roshani Chokshi
#29. In threatening times like these, what good is a peace that demands a controlled environment? We need a peace of heart and mind to see us through the storm when our environment goes berserk.
George Foster
#30. Not a sparrow falls to the ground without His seeing it." "But it falls, just the same. What good is seeing it fall?
Mark Twain
#31. What good is making a jewel if nobody see it? But cost depends on the story. To get those performances in 'Biutiful,' you need that time. You need 60 takes in a scene and a year to edit. It's not realistic to do it any other way.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#32. And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
Stacey Jay
#33. Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?
Jaclyn Smith
#34. For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?
John Steinbeck
#35. What good is a quilt if it's unused? The same as a life unused. They're meant to be wrung out and frayed around the edges. That's the way of things. Always has been. Always will be.
Amber Kizer
#36. What good is dating a cop if I can't use his get-out-of-jail-free card now and then?
Paige Tyler
#37. What good is love if you never ask anything of it?
Robert Breault
#38. Life has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying?
Tracey Garvis-Graves
#39. The swimming stinks here because there are no waves even little waves. What good is it without any ways and you never get scared or turned all over
J.D. Salinger
#40. ...if you can achieve total intimacy with a piece of cable that costs fifty-nine kopeks, what good is it? How can you say you have something special with a person, when you can get the same thing with anyone in Russia in fifteen minutes?
Raphael Carter
#41. But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?
Chris Cleave
#42. I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.
Lynn Johnston
#43. A woman has her needs. What good is a mother to her poor children if she's suffering from low self-esteem and sexual frustration? If you don't get laid soon, you will literally close up. More importantly, you will shrivel. And you will become bitter.
Helen Fielding
#45. What good is treasure if I'm alone? After sharing so much of our dreams instead of sacrificing them and leaving with you. I would rather have nothing at all!
Nami
#46. If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.
Frederick Lenz
#47. Without peace in your life ... what good is anything else?
Timothy Pina
#48. What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?
Guy Finley
#51. What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?
Tony Robbins
#52. Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.
Idries Shah
#53. Nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing ... can be permitted to stand in the way of freedom. Freedom ... is all that makes men great. It is all men have to live for. Without freedom, what good is life?
Allen Drury
#54. What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?
Meister Eckhart
#55. I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?
David Budbill
#56. What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?
Drew Carey
#57. I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power? ... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'
John Travolta
#58. What good is the Moon? You can't buy it or sell it.
Ivan Boesky
#59. I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#60. What good is it, being two stranded British fops in the heart of America, if we don't announce it on Halloween by wearing enormous fuzzy hats for the purpose of our humiliation?
Red Tash
#61. There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."
Charlie Munger
#62. What good is wealth if one is spiritually, emotionally, and mentally bankrupt?
Carlos Wallace
#63. What good is speed without the ability to brake?
Nilesh Rathod
#64. What's the point in worrying about the future? Who says there will even be a future? What happens if you die tomorrow and all you ever did was sit in maths classes and play the clarinet and moan about your family? What good is the future to you then?
Dawn O'Porter
#65. What good is an "I LOVE YOU" If said only when you have to?
What good is it to ride a horse if you cannot gallop?
What good is it to believe in someone if you doubt your own belief?
Carew Papritz
#66. Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?
Duane Michals
#67. What good is all that knowing the best thing that I had going is gone?
Brad Paisley
#68. What good is "Loving thy neighbor as thyself" if you don't Love thyself?
Donald L. Hicks
#70. took her hands away from her face. It was hard to do. She knew she looked a wreck. But if you can't trust a man to look at your real face and not run screaming, what good is it to have him around in the first place?
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#71. And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?
Peter S. Beagle
#72. What good is a book no-one can read, save for the paper? He was lucky I'd had to let him live. If my glare could have started a fire, he'd have been charred.
Kaje Harper
#73. I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
#74. What good is science if not expand one's soul so that she behaves like an ocean that holds the trash. What good is intelligence if not enlarge one's personality so that he was increasingly able to understand other people?
Emha Ainun Nadjib
#75. What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee.
Alice Munro
#76. What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind?
Drake
#77. As well ask what good is life, what good is death? If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him - valar morghulis.
George R R Martin
#78. What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?
Delores Phillips
#79. But you will die in any case, Ilyakoria. What good is everlasting fame to a man if he dies unloved?
Kate Elliott
#80. Trust me, I'm looking forward to it. But it's like cramming a whole ice cream cone in my mouth and swallow it whole. What good is that? It's over and done in a second. I want to really taste it, to lick it slowly. I want to savor the ice cream, you know what I'm saying?
Erin McCarthy
#81. What good is a theory of how the universe works if it's a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience
Terence McKenna
#82. Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? Why do things like that always happen to me?! *walks off frustrated*
Lucy: Gee, he found a penny! Why don't things like that ever happen to me?
Charles M. Schulz
#83. What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.
Simon Sinek
#84. Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
Robert Genn
#85. What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.
Don DeLillo
#86. I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?
Bill Willingham
#87. I want to know what good is a web search engine that returns 324,909,188 'matches' to my key word. That's like saying, Good news, we've located the product you're looking for. It's on Earth.
W. Bruce Cameron
#88. What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?
Crystal Woods
#89. Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?
Cameron Sinclair
#90. What good is the legal process if people can decide their motives are bigger than the law?
Jodi Picoult
#91. What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.
Criss Jami
#92. Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love
or what good is it?
Saul Bellow
#93. Morelli looked dazed. "What good is a gun without bullets?" "It's good for scaring people. Or you can hit people with it. Or you can use it to break windows ... or crack walnuts.
Janet Evanovich
#94. Fish?
No fish. Sorry.
"Sorry" is not fish. What good is "sorry"?
Robin Hobb
#95. We all have our own road to walk. Whether rocky, curving, straight or smooth, what good is a lonely road? It's when we run and intersect with other roads that defines our road. When road meets road do we get direction, and choices to cross into another life.
Anthony Liccione
#97. I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?'
John Conyers
#98. Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
Jack Kevorkian
#99. If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.
Jean Baudrillard
#100. Sometimes love's not enough. And if it's not enough, what good is it ?
Sylvia Day
