Quotes About Good

Anyway, you get the idea. Bad people tend to make bad choices. You can't put it all on them, though. There's always good ol' circumstances. Things happen. Other things don't. Then one day, you find yourself painted into a corner. Surrounded by a fresh coat of bad choices. Sure, a lot of the job is chasing down criminals and putting them behind bars. But there's also finding the people stuck in those corners and trying to help them make the right choice.

We borrowed golf from Scotland as we borrowed whiskey. Not because it is Scottish, but because it is good.

tr?im într-o ?ar? în care nu r?ul este umbra binelui, ci binele este umbra r?ului, o ?ar? în care, a?a cum spunea Ernest Bernea dup? ce a ie?it din lunga sa închisoare politic?, oamenii nu pot fi decît ori cîini b?tu?i, ori lichele.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

Superorganism, ideas, and the pecking order—these are the primary forces behind much of human creativity and earthly good. They are the holy trinity of the Lucifer Principle.

Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be essentially good and loyal. It just wasn't written in a man's nature to be monogamous, that was all. And he owed something to his nature even when his nature was at odds with his desire, which was to stay at home and cherish his wife. It was his nature – all nature, the rule of nature – that was the bastard, not him.

My favorite book title ever is Ross Thomas' THE FOOLS IN TOWN ARE ON OUR SIDE. Good book too as I recall read it a long time ago but Ross Thomas is consistently good.

This tale that I am about to tell is of a little boy who lived and suffered in those dark middle ages; of how he saw both the good and the bad of men, and of how, by gentleness and love and not by strife and hatred, he came at last to stand above other men and to be looked up to by all.

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

Selfishness is neither good nor bad—it depends on the way we are selfish as to whether it nourishes or injures.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

Frodo 'failed'. It is possible that once the ring was destroyed he had little recollection of the last scene. But one must face the fact: the power of Evil in the world is not finally resistible by incarnate creatures, however 'good'; and the Writer of the Story is not one of us. Letter 191 From a letter to Miss J. Burn (draft)

A nut is good if broken, a women if beaten.

Good people drink good beer.

Their compliments were almost universal, their warnings few, if dire. Wine was a force for good, a substance that enabled people to relax while simultaneously elevating their minds, inspiring drinkers to "laughter and wisdom and prudence and learning.

Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

Escape, son, may not be the way," says Mr. Spider. "It would be reassuring if everything was finally reducible to Light versus Darkness, Order versus Chaos, Good versus Evil. However, life is not pulp fantasy. If the Way were easy, what virtue would there be in following it? The teaching of the Daishi is that the Way does not lie in escape, or even in defeating.

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

He had been thinking too of goodies and baddies. If you thought bad things – dreams of cruelty and lust – that didn't make you bad. But if your head was full of civilised thoughts and you spent all day as a torturer … It came down to the fact that you were judged by your actions in society, not by the inside of your head.

Sin and evil weren't black – he'd argued the point with a priest – but were greyly anonymous.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.