Quotes About Good

Being a good example is the best form of service.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

Instead of doing good as witnesses, we grabbed for power. Instead of witnessing to Jesus, we have become known for political allegiances, so much so that our politics are reshaping our witness into a corrupted witness.

evil that looks like evil couldn't be as evil as evil that looks like your friend. We can see the bad guy in most films from miles away. Real evil doesn't come at us with a scar over its eye or with a hook for an arm. We don't hear a sinister orchestra play when it walks into the room. In real life, we are on our own to sort out what is evil and what is good and to decide if those terms are cleanly divisible from each other.

His response really put the experience in perspective: "You have good days and bad days," he said. "But you don't know which is which until someday way down the line because you don't know what you will make of that experience.

God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

All we must do, child, is live well, help where we can, and take the good times with as much grace as the bad.

more clearly than we see the enemies of beauty, let us see the wonders of your cross. More than we desire to see burning coals heaped on their heads, let us see you, Jesus. The only way we can even imagine overcoming evil with good is by remembering you've already secured the utter annihilation of all evil and darkness.

I'm now learning to love your law as fatherly instruction to your beloved children, as a revelation of the good, the true, and the beautiful, not as a formula for merit, acceptance, and favor.

Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. (Luke 12:35–37 NIV)

Be the necklace-fire of stars, The cauterizing lightning. Bewilder us with good.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

I'm a huge fan of television, and it's a really good time to be a fan of television, because there's so much good stuff out there. In every genre, really.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there. And all of the dramatic actors I look up to are also very funny.

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to make something good you need time.

Of my investments that have been realised, buying my first house turned out to be a pretty good move, which I didn't really realise at the time.

I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy.

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.

If you give a bad player time, he can play. If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

I had a really nice time on [Alphas]. It was a bunch of really good actors, and I was particularly thrilled to be working with David Strathairn.