Be Good Quotes - Page 14

• It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

  Emily Blunt

  Stupid, Good Movie, Dollars

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• It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

  Josh Billings

  Wise, Men, Purpose

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• Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Dwelling, Space

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• I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sleep, Phrases, Enough

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

  Bryan Cranston

  Chance, Wells, Written

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• Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Inspiration, Years, Two

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• Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars exploding. Voice shot down to hell, half sick, half recovered, alive and well and ready. The unknown for now will remain as such and in this moment that feeling is not one of suspension. It is the hopeful unknown. Reaching into the future could only be good now as the past is wrapping itself in ribbons and pleasant packing paper, rarely to be revisited.

  Andrew McMahon

  Stars, Quilts, Past

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• We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'

  Studs Terkel

  Nice, Vocabulary, Use

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know that people have mentioned on some occasions that 'Richter is all about light', and that 'the paintings have a special light', and I never knew what they were talking about. I was never interested in light. Light is there and you turn it on or you turn it off, with sun or without sun. I don't know what the 'problematic of light' is. I take it as a metaphor for a different quality, which is similarly difficult to describe. Good.

  Gerhard Richter

  Light, Talking, People

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.

  Simon Cowell

  Beauty, Looking Good, Used

  "Cowell Slams 'Past Beauty' Madonna" by wenn.com, January 20, 2004.

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• When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beauty, Handsome, Study

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.380, Penguin

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• This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

  Ray Comfort

  Evil, Generations, Slippery Slope

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Mar 22, 2014

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• There is a big difference between being good and being great.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Differences, Bigs

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• Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

  Confucius

  Law, Practice, People

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• It might be good to open our eyes and see.

  Thomas Merton

  Eye, Vision, Might

  Thomas Merton (2010). “Zen and the Birds of Appetite”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

  William James

  Memories, Eye, Passion

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.108, Nuvision Pubns

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• Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

  Seth Godin

  Important, Use, Might

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• The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

  J. B. Priestley

  Sincere, Sensitive, Goodness

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• It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

  T. S. Eliot

  Perfect, Design, Needs

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• The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Evil

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1857). “The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.285

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• Those who stop being better stop being good.

  Oliver Cromwell

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• Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hysteria, Needs, Cloning

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• My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.

  Marcel Proust

  Yesterday, Giving, House

  Marcel Proust “Swann’s Way”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

  Brittany Snow

  Thinking, Cheesy, Way

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• I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.

  Sheryl Crow

  Philosophy, Writing, People

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