Good Things Quotes - Page 30

• We, the People of this country, have no unalienable rights... all our rights are subject to modification... the Constitution of the United States of America is nothing more than a piece of paper and... our government should not be restrained by the Constitution because our government can do good things for people.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Rights, Government

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• I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

  Jim Wallis

  Kings, Thinking, Leader

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• As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

  Compay Segundo

  Bored, Desire, Too Much

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• We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Opportunity, Media, Iraq

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• PlayStation 4 won't impose any new restrictions on used games. This is a good thing... When a gamer buys a PS4 disc, they have the rights to that copy of the game.

  Jack Tretton

  Playing Games, Rights, Gamer

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• Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas.

  John Anderson

  Government, Ideas, People

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• When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fighting, Evil, Battle

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

  David Morse

  Talking, People, Actors

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• It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Jesus, Idols

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• I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah.

  John Starks

  Nice, Utah, Cities

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• When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Letting Go, Luxury, Comfort

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• Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Pain, Sleep, Son

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• You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Real, War

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• We're all lost souls here. It's a good thing we've got each other.

  Amy Plum

  Soul, Lost, Lost Souls

  Amy Plum (2011). “Die For Me: Number 1 in series”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is.

  Eric Barker

  Life, Positive, Success

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• Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?

  John Wooden

  Sports, Having Patience, Take Time

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• I don't care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.

  Queen Latifah

  Inspirational, Care, Stuff

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• Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Perseverance, Waiting, Perseverence

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• Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing.

  George W. Bush

  Information, Administration, Action

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• I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Self, Musician, Growing

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• I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people — we the people — are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, Fighting, Thinking

  "Michele Bachmann Said What?!" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. June 6, 2011.

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• If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

  John Steinbeck

  Best Things, Happens, Ifs

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.505, Penguin

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• If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
  “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.

  Willa Cather

  Giving Up, Hate, Fire

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1481, eBookIt.com

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• Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ethics, Contagious, Aesthetics

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Jan 13, 2012

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• The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Truth Is, Bad Things

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