Good And Bad Quotes - Page 11

• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Law, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

  Philip James Bailey

  Brother, Land, America

  'Festus' (1839) sc. 10

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• In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

  Libba Bray

  Art, Pain, Regret

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

  Euripides

  Evil, May, Should

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• One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Apples, Confusion, Doe

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• I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Reading, Men

  William Faulkner, Noel Polk (1987). “Absalom, Absalom!, typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heat, Blame, Cold

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

  Deb Caletti

  Beautiful, Two, Long

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

  John Updike

  Architecture, Sometimes, Where You Stand

  John Updike (1991). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Everything beyond getting together felt like a bonus and made everyone feel really relaxed. It's not like people don't scrutinize their own decisions or those of others, of course, but that's both good and bad.

  Pontus Winnberg

  People, Decision, Together

  "An Amason Supergroup". Interview with Mathias Rosenzweig, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 30, 2015.

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• Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one has experienced through life, by what one has seen or heard; it also depends upon one's belief in a certain religion, one's birth in a certain nation and origin in a certain race. But what can really be called good or bad, right or wrong, is what comforts the mind and what causes it discomfort. It is not true, although it appears so, that it is discomfort that causes wrongdoing. In reality, it is wrongdoing which causes discomfort, and it is right-doing which gives comfort.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Reality, Race, Giving

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• Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

  Carl Sagan

  Greek, Humanity, Library

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]". TV series, 1990.

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• Everything that happens-good and bad-should motivate you to be persistent.

  Jim Tressel

  Should, Persistent, Happens

  Jim Tressel (2010). “The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life”, p.136, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.

  Ray Charles

  Two, Dukes, Kind

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• There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

  Demian Bichir

  Lying, People, Guy

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• Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

  Matt Groening

  Anxiety, Doe, Examining

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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• What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Negative, Needs, Identification

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.7, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.

  Shepard Fairey

  People, Lazy, Arena

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices.

  Robert D. Hales

  Agency, Choices, Consequence

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• Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Simple, Redemption, Dangerous

  "Inside Man". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2010.

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• What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.

  William James

  Zest, Needs, Done

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, Simon and Schuster

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• Too many companies these days can't tell the difference between good profits and bad.... By now you're probably wondering how in heaven's name profit, that holy grail of the business enterprise, can ever be bad. Short of outright fraud, isn't one dollar of earnings as good as another? Certainly, accountants can't tell the difference between good and bad profits. They all look the same on an income statement. While bad profits don't show up on the books, they are easy to recognize. They're profits earned at the expense of customer relationships.

  Fred Reichheld

  Book, Names, Differences

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• Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways. Good and bad.

  Elle King

  Musician, Different, Way

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• To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

  Bruce Lee

  Responsibility, Action, Taking Responsibility

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• Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Life And Death, Noble

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.20, Modern Library

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