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Quotes About Good

By then I knew that everything good and bad left emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There are no men like them when they are good, but when they get bad, there's no world which is worse.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Por entonces, ya había descubierto que todo, lo bueno y lo malo, deja un vacío cuando se interrumpe. Pero si se trata de algo malo, el vacío acaba llenándose por sí solo. Mientras que el vacío de algo bueno solo puede llenarse descubriendo algo mejor.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The warrior trains their mind to know the good and beautiful and true.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
The warrior lives to fulfill God's intention that the world would reflect all that is good and beautiful and true.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
He is the Savior of all because he is the servant of all. This is the way of the warrior: to serve is to sacrifice. To serve is to give oneself for the good of others. Jesus used his power to serve, and in this moment of servanthood, we see his greatness.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Luck is the residue of design. A man makes being there for his son a priority—chances are good that boy'll turn out safe. You understand me?" He looked at me head-on, the white hospital light hitting his age-spotted face directly. "What I'm saying is, being in a healthy marriage takes two. Being a good father…all that takes is you.
~ Ethan Hawke
To explore the mind of man is to know the face of damnation and salvation both—to know them in the only way we can know them, a human way, just as we know light and good and evil and the falling silver rain.
~ Andrew Klavan
Madame d'Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyland, with its manners, its fairies, its queens, its amorous, its cruel, its good, its evil, its odious, its friendly fées.
~ Andrew Lang
For, as I told you, Good deeds bear their own fruit!
~ Andrew Lang
The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the good that one possibly can.
~ Andrew Lang
The difference between the good and the bad is the law." "No, Jessica," Damian replies sharply. "The difference is that the good look out for the innocent and protect them from the wicked.
~ Andrew Mayne
If I were to break a law, it would only be of the kind that are designed to inconvenience. Law, like God, is only real when people believe in it. When you know the truth—that it's really just the good and bad we do to each other that really matters—you see things differently.
~ Andrew Mayne
We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
~ Andrew Sullivan
Still, be that as it may, the young master was at sea sinking Froggies, and that was a good thing, it was what Froggies were for, when all was said and done; no doubt it was God's punishment on them for not being English.
~ Andrew Wareham
And why not?' the merchant replied seriously. 'Why not have doubts? It's nothing but a human and good thing'. 'What?' 'Doubt. Only an evil man, master Geralt, is without it. And no one escapes his destiny'.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
But first appearances are often deceptive. Not everything monstrous looking is evil, and not everything fair is good...and in every fairytale, there is a grain of truth.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
What were you doing? Good or bad?' 'I don't know,' said Geralt with effort. 'I don't know, Yurga. Sometimes it seems to me that I know. And sometimes I have doubts. Would you like your son to have doubts like that?' 'Why not?' the merchant said gravely. 'He might as well. For it's a human and a good thing.' 'What?' 'Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any. But no one can escape his destiny.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Unbridled altruism is a huge vice of mine,' he explained. 'I simply have to do good. I am a sensible dwarf, however, and know that I'm unable to do everyone good. Were I to attempt to be good to everyone, to the entire world and to all the creatures living in it, it would be a drop of fresh water in the salt sea. In other words, a wasted effort. Thus, I decided to do specific good; good which would not go to waste. I'm good to myself and my immediate circle.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Shall I tell you good Witcher, what good people are ? They're people whom fate hasn't blessed with the chance of profiting from the benefits of being evil
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
For him the points of the compass have no great importance. It's all the same to him which one he chooses, as long as he's not idle. That is truly a witcher's principium. The world is full of evil, so it's sufficient to stride ahead, and destroy the Evil encountered on the way, in that way rendering a service to Good. The rest takes care of itself. Being in motion is everything, the goal is nothing.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I don't know,' said Geralt with effort. 'I don't know, Yurga. Sometimes it seems to me that I know. And sometimes I have doubts. Would you like your son to have doubts like that?' 'Why not?' the merchant said gravely. 'He might as well. For it's a human and a good thing.' 'What?' 'Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any. But no one can escape his destiny.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
And sometimes I have doubts. Would you like your son to have doubts like that?' 'Why not?' the merchant said gravely. 'He might as well. For it's a human and a good thing.' 'What?' 'Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski