Quotes About Good

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

You're not gonna believe this, but generally speaking, good guys follow rules while bad guys don't.

Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

Meaning evil only wins—" "—when good men and women do nothing.

He popped the trunk and pulled out from his duffel a set of NV goggles. "Good thing I didn't have my duffel in the car when we went into the water." "Yeah, good thing it was just us in the car," shot back Knox.

Wars don't change how people are, Archer. They just kill a bunch 'a folks and when it's over, people go back to being how they always were. Most good, some not so good.

In principle, an open society sees information flow as a good thing, to be hampered only in the presence of strong evidence that harm cannot be prevented by any other means.

I suppose, all told, I've done more good than evil in my life, but that's incidental, a product of happenstance and the bizarre caprices of the world.

Excuse me for being greedy, but I want freedom and good government.

The Orb is not of itself evil. Evil is a thing that lies only in the hearts and minds of men--and of Gods, also. --Aldur

It was a good day for a ride, but not a good day for being chased. No day was good for that.

I have this -- here's this thing where it's going to sound sappy to you. I have this unbelievably like five-year-old's belief that art is just absolutely magic. And that good art can do things that nothing else in the solar system can do. And that the good stuff will survive, and get read, and that in the great winnowing process, the shit will sink and the good stuff will rise.

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else. and Who cares? and It's all bullshit anyway.

I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Devils are actually angels.

I'm not saying I'm able to work consistently out of the premise, but it seems like the big distinction between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind the text. It's got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.

Time has dealt kindly with that stout officer, as it does ordinarily with men who have good stomachs and good tempers, and are not perplexed over much by fatigue of the brain.

Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.

What's good coffee taste like?" "Coffee." "What's the best coffee taste like?" "Good coffee." "What's the difference between good coffee and the best coffee?" "Advertising.

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud,if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.