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Quotes About Good

Do you find Your patience so predominant in your nature That you can let this go? Are you so gospelled, To pray for this good man and for his issue, Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave, And beggared yours for ever?
~ William Shakespeare
O my good lord, the world is but a word: Were it all yours to give it in a breath, How quickly were it gone!
~ William Shakespeare
Are there, as science fiction and Gnostic speculation imply, different species of time in the same world, 'good time' and enveloping folds of inhuman time, in which men fall into the slow hands of the living damnation?
~ William Styron
Why, I think, as you say, to wit, that they are bad times, and bad they will be, until men are better; for they are bad men that make bad times; if men, therefore, would mend, so would the times. It is a folly to look for good days so long as sin is so high, and those that study its nourishment so many
~ William Styron
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
~ William Wordsworth
Among the smaller gentry his London experience stood him in good stead;
~ Winston Graham
Good and great are seldom in the same man.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Nemesis personifies "the Goddess of Retribution, who brings down all immoderate good fortune, checks the presumption that attends it, …and is the punisher of extraordinary crimes".36
~ Winston S. Churchill
It proved conclusively the great accuracy of naval fire, provided good observation could be obtained.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot
~ Woody Allen
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought,] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
~ Woody Allen
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better [...] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
~ Woody Allen
O mundo divide-se em pessoas boas e pessoas más. As pessoas boas têm um sono tranquilo. As pessoas más divertem-se muito mais.
~ Woody Allen
Taip, pagalvojo Klok?, turb?t šiame pasaulyje yra tik dviej? r?ši? žmon?s: arba geri, arba blogi. Gerieji ramiau miega, ta?iau pašlem?kai kur kas džiaugsmingiau nubunda.
~ Woody Allen
The main battlefield of good is not the open ground of the publis arena, but the small clearing of each heart.
~ Yann Martel
Evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
~ Yann Martel
The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
~ Yann Martel
The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.
~ Yann Martel
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
~ Yann Martel
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile
~ Yann Martel
Words matter deeply to the authors of Proverbs, for they see words as powerful vehicles of good or evil, just as much so as actual deeds.
~ Christopher J.H. Wright
There is a natural order. The way things are meant to be. An order that says that the good guys always win. That you die when it's your time, or you have it coming. That the ending is always happy, if only for someone else. Now at some point it became clear to us that our path had been chosen and we had nothing to offer the world. Our options narrowing down to petty crime or minimum wage. So, we stepped off the path, and went looking for the fortune that we knew was looking for us.
~ Christopher McQuarrie
Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.
~ Christopher Meloni
For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
~ Christopher Morley