Good Things Quotes - Page 38

• Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Acting, Energy

  John Ruskin (1860). “The Stones of Venice...”, p.5

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• You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Moving, Games, Play

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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. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Fighting, Order

  Letter to Theo van Gogh, May 30, 1877.

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• Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Littles, Assumption

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine.

  Roger Ebert

  Prayer, Flower, Smell

  Roger Ebert (2011). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012”, p.713, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The good thing about coming over to the UK is that I can get some rest.

  Tiger Woods

  I Can

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• Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Thinking, Evil, Grace

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Dec 04, 2016

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• The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

  Robert Henri

  Memories, Painting, Forgotten

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• One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Horror, Can Do

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• Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.

  Paul Klee

  Dream, Style, Mind

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• It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Learning, People, Matter

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.190, Northwestern University Press

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• Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Two, People

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• It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Italian, Hair, Long

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• I do think people have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera and if it were not slanted in ways that appear to be at times just purely inaccurate.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  "White House Says Al-Jazeera Is Biased". www.foxnews.com. June 07, 2004.

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• It seems after the disaster many good things and blessings happen,.

  William Jackson

  Blessing, Disaster, Happens

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• It's going to be a little further for me to take my children, but the Montessori has been good for my children so I'm willing to take them further. I think it will be a good thing to keep them in the program.

  Connie Smith

  Children, Thinking, Littles

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• Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Future, Mean, Promise

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Reason, Pleasure, Contrast

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• Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Hope, Expectations, Disillusion

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• A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Strong, Giving, World

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1966). “Deephaven, and other stories”, New College & Univ Pr

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• Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Trouble, Very Good

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• Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Nature, Eye

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.517, Library of America

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• The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Order, Law, Appreciate

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• They have dog food for constipated dogs. If your dog is constipated, why screw up a good thing? Stay indoors and let 'em bloat!

  David Letterman

  Funny, Dog, Screw Ups

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• Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Religion, World, Almighty

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.22, Open Road Media

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