Very Good Quotes

• She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

  Lewis Carroll

  Happiness, Sweet, Advice

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.26, Penguin

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• The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

  Robert Graves

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

  The Observer, December 06, 1964.

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• For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Trust, Girly, Truth

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• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.

  Nathan Hale

  Order, Execution, Given

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• And I don't feel any fear in a sense, because I have every good intention in my heart. When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Heart, Past, Play

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• We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.

  Pauline Collins

  Mean, Thinking, Often Is

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

  Mae West

  Life, Tattoo, Sexy

  I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933)

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  the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Feel Good, Soul

  Charles Bukowski (1972). “Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness”

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• It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Sheep, Years

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• Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

  Benito Mussolini

  Inspirational, Funny, Sheep

  "ITALY: Duce (1922-43)". content.time.com. August 2, 1943.

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• Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Yankees, League

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• Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

  James Brown

  Heart, Awards, Giving

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• Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

  Anthony of Padua

  Doe, Saint, Credit

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• It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.

  Martin Lel

  Champion, Fields, Strongest

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• I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.

  Catherine Crier

  Thinking, Waiting, May

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• A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is required to stand on his own feet, not to lean on the state for handouts. Character, resourcefulness, capacity are formed and developed in struggle with obstacles, not in waiting passively for benefits from outside.

  William Henry Chamberlin

  Struggle, Character, Feet

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• In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.

  Emir Kusturica

  Hate, People, Understanding

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• It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

  Robert Mayer

  People, World, Students

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• Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She's got on red go-go boots and a catholic school plaid skirt ... way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now...She's got on her typically very, very tight shirt. She looks like she has sausage casing wrapping around her upper body ... I know she's very good, and I'm not supposed to be critical of ESPN people, so I won't ... but Hannah Storm ... come on now! Stop! What are you doing? ... She's what I would call a Holden Caulfield fantasy at this point.

  Tony Kornheiser

  School, People, Catholic

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• There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Three, Triangles, Mathematics

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• Their record is a little bit deceiving. I still think they are a very good team.

  Laura Halldorson

  Lying, Team, Thinking

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• I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

  Ben Stiller

  Appreciation, Grateful, Acceptance

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• If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.

  Richard Ingrams

  Lawyer, Settling, Should

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• Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

  Anna Held

  Divorce, Good Friend, Littles

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