Quotes About Good

Voters deserve - and they indeed expect - a good debate on the issues.

I've been very sensible with the money I made, and I did make good money.

I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.

Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil.

Sequels are scary. And making a sequel to something as good as 'Scanners' is even scarier.

I have never been of the opinion that I will only play the lead in a serial. For me, just the role needs to be good.

I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

I think what makes a really good shoe is something that you can play ball in but also something that you can wear off the court as well.

You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.

I feel that bad people exist everywhere. I've always maintained that it is not the industry that is good or bad: it's the people.

I wanted to show Baltimore that they were getting a good ballplayer.

I was a good athlete, a good baseball player. A great baseball player, I should say.

Rondo is a very good basketball player - really good.

I try to live every day as present' as I can, see the good in it, see the good in people, see the good in my career and always wanting to be true to myself.

I think there are lots of reasons to take projects. Being scared about one is always good.

Always really good audiences in Belgium.

He offered a crystal-clear notion of right and wrong, an unambiguous definition of good and evil. And although his perspective was absolutist and unyielding, it presented a kinder, gentler alternative to Calvinism, which had been the ecclesiastical status quo in the early years of the American republic.

Not all great presidents were always good, and neither individuals nor nations are without evil.

I hate polemical politics and polemical divinity," said John Adams. "My religion is founded on the love of God and my neighbor; on the hope of pardon for my offenses; upon contrition; upon the duty as well as the necessity of [enduring] with patience the inevitable evils of life; in the duty of doing no wrong, but all the good I can, to the creation of which I am but an infinitesimal part." There

It's Shakespeare, to have a single family in which human flaws and virtues are on such vivid display—and the constant struggle between those vices and those virtues to try to do good and fulfill one's duty.

The opposite of fear is hope, defined as the expectation of good fortune not only for ourselves but for the group to which we belong.

House. "There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded." That, Lincoln understood, was the moral work of politics: to make the good outweigh the bad.

John Adams. "My religion is founded on the love of God and my neighbor; on the hope of pardon for my offenses; upon contrition; upon the duty as well as the necessity of [enduring] with patience the inevitable evils of life; in the duty of doing no wrong, but all the good I can, to the creation of which I am but an infinitesimal part.

in the battle between the impulses of good and of evil in the American soul, what Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature" have prevailed just often enough to keep the national enterprise alive.