Top 100 What's Good Quotes
#1. When the president decides that he knows better than you know what's good for you or your family, we've got trouble in this country.
John Barrasso
#2. Hedonism, as any puritan can tell you, never leads to virtue. If we could all set pleasure aside and eat what's good for us, our problems would all go away. (Good luck with that.)
Mark Schatzker
#3. The world is beautiful and glorious. Humanity can be mean, and turn away from what's good.
Dean Koontz
#4. Going through my divorce has changed who I am in my understanding of what's good and bad in relationships.
Kevin Hart
#5. We can be content in whatever situation we're in, as long as we trust the Lord for what's good for us.
Ann Tatlock
#6. With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.
Olivia D'Abo
#7. Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.
Ben Vereen
#8. Funny how what's good for the gander is good for the goose...until it's your goose ~ The Duke of Lancaster
Catherine Hemmerling
#9. The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.
Georgie Anne Geyer
#10. I'm going to tell you, what's good for al Qaeda is good for the Democratic Party in this country today.
Rush Limbaugh
#11. My nutritional knowledge is good enough to figure out what's good, what's bad, and where my leeway is.
Brian O'Driscoll
#12. The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have.
Julie Andrews
#13. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
John Ray
#14. There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.
Michael J. Fox
#15. If you want to build a factory, or fix a motorcycle, or set a nation right without getting stuck, then classical, structured, dualistic subject-object knowledge, although necessary, isn't enough. You have to have some feeling for the quality of the work. You have to have a sense of what's good.
Robert M. Pirsig
#16. Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture ... like Van Gogh ... so who's to say what's good and bad?
Frank Gehry
#17. Figure out what's good for you, then create a liking for it. You've got to work at living.
Jack LaLanne
#18. Sometimes you have to learn to love what's good for you.
Stephenie Meyer
#19. All the help that comes to us is form the Holy Spirit, whether it comes in a dream or through the help of a friend or doctor. The trick is the discrimination you need: to tell what's good for you and what's not good for you. This comes by listening to your heart.
Harold Klemp
#20. It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.
Cornel West
#21. America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
Walter Dean Myers
#22. If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.
Bee Wilson
#23. You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.
Joyce Meyer
#24. What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors.
Barack Obama
#25. Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.
Jon Brion
#26. What's good for the financial industry probably isn't good for you.
Bethany McLean
#27. My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
Shaun Cassidy
#28. We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.
Tom Colicchio
#29. What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.
Alan Furst
#30. To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#31. Every now and then you run up on one of those days when everything's in vain ... a stone bummer from start to finish; and if you know what's good for you, on days like these you sort of hunker down in a safe corner and watch.
Hunter S. Thompson
#32. My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot.
Deb Caletti
#33. Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
Ricardo Montalban
#34. So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.
Norm MacDonald
#35. So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it, but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet.
Mitchell Baker
#36. Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?
Joyce Carol Oates
#37. Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?
Arabella Weir
#38. Nineteen is the age where you say Look out, world, I'm smokin' TNT and I'm drinkin' dynamite, so if you know what's good for ya, get out of my way -
Stephen King
#39. I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what's good, and that's no way to live.
Michael Jai White
#40. It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.
Douglas Hofstadter
#41. You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.
Joe Sakic
#42. It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
Earl Sweatshirt
#43. What's good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.!
Al Capp
#44. What's good about March? Well, for one thing, it keeps February and April apart.
Walt Kelly
#45. Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.
Roberta Flack
#46. I'd start by thinking about what's good. Then I'd ask myself how I could make that good even better.
Kiera Cass
#47. Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose.
Ursula Goodenough
#48. What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.
Teri Hatcher
#49. After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#50. As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.
Kapil Dev
#51. You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.
Hiroyuki Takei
#52. Hurt spreads and grows and reaches out to break what's good. Time heals all wounds, but often it's only by the application of the grave, and while we live some hurts live with us, burning, making us twist and turn to escape them. And as we twist, we turn into other men.
Mark Lawrence
#53. You have a skill. You can do something no one else can," Barron says. "Seriously. You know what's good about that? It's valuable. As in you can trade it for goods or services. Or money. Remember when I said it was wasted on you? I was so right.
Holly Black
#54. If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.
Robert Barry
#55. As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.
Akiva Goldsman
#56. Conscience, the divine nature within us, sees everything as connected, what's good for all is always its priority.
Ilchi Lee
#57. If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you'll be able to figure out really easily what's good for you and what's bad.
Blake Griffin
#58. To me, my idea of what's good is to drive here and go to Waffle House, get a couple of eggs and a waffle. When I see the first Waffle House, I know I'm in the South. That's good.
Neil Gaiman
#59. That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.
D.H. Lawrence
#60. Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking. Whatever it is, it'll pass. Time doesn't go backward. That's the one real blessing. It happened; it does you no good to worry. Keep it movin'.
Jesse L. Martin
#61. Sadie gave her head an exaggerated scratch. 'Don't come too close if you know what's good for you, these nits are on steroids.
Sharon Sant
#62. Do what's good for you
Or you're not good for anybody
Billy Joel
#63. The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.
Jerry Rice
#64. Travis," Caeden's teeth groaned together. "If you know what's good for you, you'll run."
"Oh, are we playing cat and mouse?" Travis grinned, showing elongated teeth. Hair began to sprout and he started to shimmer. "I love games. I choose cat," his words were muffled around his teeth.
Micalea Smeltzer
#65. I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good.
Hal Price
#66. My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good for the shareholders and for the company.
Phil Knight
#67. The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.
Albert Schweitzer
#68. What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.'
Michael Moore
#69. The child has no way of knowing what's good information.
Richard Dawkins
#70. I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.
Anne Frank
#72. It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.
Anthony Edwards
#73. Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit. What's good seems lost and gone forever. This is a story about the pathway back to what's beautiful, when the way back seems impossible.
Sharon E. Rainey
#74. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.
Seth Godin
#75. I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
Nathaniel Rich
#76. Insist that the first question each of us asks, isn't 'what's good for me' but 'what's good for the country my children will inherit'
Barack Obama
#77. Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
Alan Ladd
#78. Get comfortable with the idea that you won't know what's good until it's already happened.
Jad Abumrad
#79. Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.
Joe Hill
#81. Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.
George Steinbrenner
#82. The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.
Denzel Washington
#83. Think in terms of what's good for the other person and success will seek you out.
Mary Kay Ash
#84. It's amazing how people can be so blind to what's good for them and what isn't, what's truth and what's not, or the difference between secrets and things just not yet known.
Eric Lindstrom
#85. It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.
Kaley Cuoco
#86. Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.
Hayao Miyazaki
#87. Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good for the wider civilization and rationalizing all these ridiculous conclusions based on this subconscious tendency to serve one's self is a terribly inaccurate way to think.
Charlie Munger
#88. I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.
Penn Jillette
#89. You need to find a way to propel this creativity to the masses. People get brainwashed and they start to forget what's good.
Robert Trujillo
#90. Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad?
Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
Steven Moffat
#91. What's good is that my music is different from everyone else's. It's got the soul element, like Duffy, but it's not very retro. It's a contemporary, pop, fresh sound. That's what makes it different.
Pixie Lott
#92. We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.
Thomas Keller
#93. Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking the priests, pundits and parents, Why?
Thomas Cathcart
#94. If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.
Guy Pearce
#95. A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
Bill Bowerman
#96. This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill,
Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.
Sir John Davies
#97. It's hard to see what's good, what's right, when you're in the middle of it.
Elizabeth Brundage
#98. I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.
Alan Ladd
#99. You don't believe in right and wrong? Good and bad?"
"Sure, right is what's good for me, and bad is what I don't like, and those things are very, very wrong ."
"You really were raised by wolves, weren't you?"
"Yes, I was.
Michael J. Sullivan
#100. The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What's good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War, with the U.S. or any other country in the world.
Dmitry Medvedev
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