Good Things Quotes - Page 22

• The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.

  Pete Wentz

  Friendship, Real, Adversity

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• Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things!

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Best Things

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• I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life, Giving, Focus

  Joyce Meyer (2006). “Battlefield of the Mind Devotional: 100 Insights That Will Change the Way You Think”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• Yes, definitely I do feel betrayed, but I've got to take everything that's happened and learn from it. I accept that that's a chapter of my life that's finished. And I've just got to be grateful that I've got so many good things going on. I have.

  Cheryl Cole

  Grateful, Divorce, Betrayed

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• People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

  Tom Scholz

  People, Growth, Sake

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• If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Stupid, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• ...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure of which one can always be certain.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Gratitude, Memories, Past

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• Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

  Patty Murray

  Anger, School, Kids

  Live Chat, www.scholastic.com. October 5, 1994.

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• The biggest thing this has in common with almost all of our records is the dualities are still there. We kind of stripped down the other things we were writing about, and that's what was left. A lot of good things have happened to us in the last couple of years both as a band and in our personal lives. But something as wonderful as having children also brings along these new fears and terrors and responsibilities.

  Patterson Hood

  Couple, Children, Responsibility

  "Drive-By Truckers change ways on 'Blessing'". Billboard Interview, www.today.com. April 13, 2006.

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• Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.

  Eike Batista

  Share, Happy Alone

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• The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Lessons, Teach, Meant To Happen

  Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Lucia, Lucia: A Novel”, p.142, Random House

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• You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Peers, Television, Demand

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• The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote in 1787, “a little rebellion every now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical one.

  Tim Wu

  Breakup, Ideas, Political

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.119, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Let's try to find ten good things to say about Albert Belle:
  10. So far as we know, he's never killed anyone.
  9. He is handsome, and built like a God.
  8. He played every game.
  7. He has never appeared on the Jerry Springer Show.
  6. He was an underrated base runner who was rarely caught stealing.
  5. He hasn't been arrested in several years.
  4. He is very bright.
  3. He works hard.
  2. He has never spoken favorably about Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, or any other foreign madman.
  1. The man could hit.

  Bill James

  Hard Work, Men, Years

  Bill James (2001). “The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract”

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• Value investing doesn't always work. The market doesn't always agree with you. Over time, value is roughly the way the market prices stocks, but over the short term, which sometimes can be as long as two or three years, there are periods when it doesn't work. And that is a very good thing. The fact that our value approach doesn't work over periods of time is precisely the reason why it continues to work over the long term.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Years, Two, Long

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• A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

  Robert Hurt

  Virginia, Firsts, Stranger

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• Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

  Roger Milla

  Football, Country, Party

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• So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can’t be a good thing.

  Craig Finn

  Worry, Pet, Neurosis

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• You're trying to figure out a way to meet a horse to where he can understand. And to me, it's not to train a horse, it's to try to get the horse with you where it's one mind and one body. You may spend your whole life chasing that, but it's a good thing to chase.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Mind, Trying

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• You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right. We'll all be all right. I wanted you to know that.

  Geoff Ryman

  Sadness, Thinking, Evil

  Geoff Ryman (2013). “Paradise Tales: and Other Stories”, p.157, Small Beer Press

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• The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that dead tree that's taking all the nutrition and good things from the forest floor. He goes out and he gnaws at it, and he gnaws at it till the thing gets tired and it falls down. And the dirt from it raises other trees. It gives them good things to eat. It makes 'em strong. Gives 'em life. And the circle goes 'round.

  James McBride

  Running, Strong, Fall

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• If you’ve managed to do one good thing,
  the ocean doesn’t care.
  But when Newton’s apple
  fell toward the earth,
  the earth, ever so slightly, fell
  toward the apple as well.

  Ellen Bass

  Ocean, Apples, Earth

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• For if God does not for a moment tire of giving us good things, how can we tire of thanking Him for these good things?

  Nikolaj Velimirovic

  Thanking Him, Giving, Doe

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• But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

  Danny Wallace

  People

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

  Jonas Jonasson

  Revenge, Worst, One Thing

  Jonas Jonasson (2012). “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”, p.59, Hachette UK

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