Good Things Quotes - Page 9

• They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, Thinking

  "Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief" (BBC Four), 2005.

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• People have one of two extreme reactions to my book. They either throw it across the room, or they rush out and buy 10 copies. The message I'm giving out, that what we think about becomes true for us, and negative thoughts mean good things don't happen, isn't always easy for some people to take.

  Louise Hay

  Book, Mean, Thinking

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• Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Bravery, Humanity

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.24, Xist Publishing

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• Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Father, War, Prose

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.91, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Desire, Kingdoms

  Vivekananda (Swami) (1925). “Epistles”

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• Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

  E. M. Forster

  Justice, Naked, World

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• You got the hearts of lions, Good things, bad things, it doesn't matter, that's who you are... That's what carries us from here to where we are going. And everyone's talking about what we couldn't do, and what we wouldn't do and what we shouldn't do, right? You did it week after week, day after day. No matter what someone said about you. Huh, It dosen't matter what they said.

  John Harbaugh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dear

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.24, BookBaby

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• It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

  Don Herold

  Life, Serious, Waiter

  Don Herold (1930). “Strange Bedfellows: My Crazy-quilt Memoirs, Life-maxims and What-not”

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• There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Witty, Littles, Tongue

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume”, p.163

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• You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Mother, Sleep, Divorce

  The Women act 2, sc. 4 (1937)

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• There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

  Murray Rothbard

  Philosophy, Political, Liberty

  The Austrian Economics Newsletter Interview, 1990.

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• Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved. But among ends that can be achieved our choice must be decided by other than purely scientific considerations. If a man were to say, "I hate the human race, and I think it would be a good thing if it were exterminated," we could say, "Well, my dear sir, let us begin the process with you." But this is hardly argument, and no amount of science could prove such a man mistaken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Mistake, Science

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• I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.

  Michael Faraday

  Weed, Science, Thinking

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

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• So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Selfish, Mistake, Men

  "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854

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• And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Government, Age

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.412, Wildside Press LLC

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• [Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, Religion

  "The Atheism Tapes", 2004.

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• I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion is a terrific meme. That's right. But that doesn't make it true and I care about what's true. Smallpox virus is a terrific virus. It does its job magnificently well. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing. It doesn't mean that I don't want to see it stamped out.

  Richard Dawkins

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

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• If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

  Alan Watts

  Buddhist, Memories, Real

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves - good and bad.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Life, Karma, Business

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John A. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 7, 2005.

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• God wants to speak to you on a one-to-one basis every day. He wants to lead you to the good things He has in store for you.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Want, Speak

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• As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

  Etty Hillesum

  Gratitude, Unexpected Gifts, Expectations

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.466, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.

  Barack Obama

  Christian Values, Mind Blowing, Islam

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. 2008.

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• I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

  Mary Schmich

  Mother, Sibling, Grief

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.28, Agate Digital

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• The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.

  Truman Capote

  Witty, Sex, Masturbation

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