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Quotes About Good

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
~ Amber Valletta
Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
~ Ambrose Bierce
What strange times we live in, when good must disguise itself in the tawdry rags of evil!
~ Amin Maalouf
A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
My mind/a twist of clutter/ as i lie in bed imagining my life/ I watch the shadows on the ceiling./Memories sail across my eyes. / I need courage to see them. / I fight with myself/But then I close my eyes to the twilight/ And release myself to sleep. The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal. I'd rather be lucky than good. Good is just so overrated. Bad girls have the most fun. A fool empties his head every time he opens his mouth
~ Amy Efaw
Seth. So brave. Who would have guessed he only came to Earth to be a superhero? "He is a good boy," Officer Rivers agreed.
~ Amy Lane
I could retire," he said, as though to himself. "That would be good. I could retire, and the wife and I could move to a desert island, and—" "Doc?
~ Amy Lane
A good son?" Cassidy asked, because he'd always wondered what it took to be a good son. He'd tried—always neat, always clean, always on time—but nobody had seemed to want the job of being his mother. "The best.
~ Amy Lane
Mark shrugged. "You know we're going to eat half of them anyway." He gave a wicked grin and invited Cassidy into this fantasy world, where good boys really did get cookies and people sang Christmas carols while stringing tinsel.
~ Amy Lane
And remember, whenever not contraindicated by her health, always follow a treatment with a tasty treat. That associates the unpleasantness with good things, so the kitten will be less likely to argue about subsequent treatments.
~ Amy Shojai
The problem of Palestine was that everyone wanted things simple: everyone was an extremist because everyone wanted things simple. It was the problem of humanity. Good and evil, as if there were only those two. The interesting thing was to seek truth and then face it.
~ Amy Wilentz
You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything,
~ Amy-Jill Levine
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
~ Anais Nin
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
~ Anatole France
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
~ Anatole France
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
~ Anatole France
Men,' I said to myself, 'suffer because they are deprived of that which they believe to be good; or because, possessing it they fear to lose it; or because they endure that which they believe to be an evil. Put an end to all beliefs of this kind, and the evils would disappear.
~ Anatole France
Veo aquí materia suficiente para formar muchos Tomás de Aquino y muchos Arrios, si las inteligencias no hubieran perdido su antiguo ardor lo mismo para el bien que para el mal.
~ Anatole France
I freely acknowledge that it is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
~ Anatole France
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
~ Anatole France
lumea este totuna cu r?ul, un r?u mereu mai viclean dec?t poate b?nui omul, iar binele este una din vicleniile lui.
~ Andreï Makine
Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.
~ Andrea Corr
For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men's control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil's stranglehold will be easily broken.
~ Andrew Bernstein