Very Good Quotes - Page 39

• Love is the soul of every life of prayer and of every good work.

  Concepcion Cabrera de Armida

  Prayer, Love Is, Soul

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• If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent. 'Credibility' is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we'll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.

  Adam Gopnik

  People, World, Causes

  "No more Mr. Tough Guy" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2014.

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• In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Laughing, Childhood

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• That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

  William Faulkner

  Reading, Writing, Crafts

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• Not yet, when I'm gone I'll be a legend, right now I'm just very good at what I do.

  Dick Trickle

  Gone, Legends, Right Now

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• It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.

  Carrie Fisher

  Drug, Rest Of Your Life, Young

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• I'm not very good at sounding like other people. When you're going through your 20's and trying to get a break and that kind of thing, and you're trying to do something that sounds like film music, your idea of what it would be, it never really worked out for me and it's only really when I learned to trust the fact that I could only really sound like me.

  Steven Price

  Ideas, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor and when you have an actor like Denzel action becomes drama.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Drama, Good Friend, Actors

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• One of the challenges with series TV is not to give everyone all the punchlines, all the gags and all the fun stuff at the top. Everyone is so anxious, for very good reasons, to hit the ground running, but I've been on the other end of that.

  Bruno Heller

  Running, Fun, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I am not very good at reflecting. I am a complete perfectionist and always thinking to the next thing!

  Roksanda Ilincic

  Thinking, Next, Perfectionist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.

  Prince Charles

  Land, Numbers, Years

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• "Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and dreams and America because I knew about them. And I wrote about what it's like to wander into Faerie because I knew about that. I wrote about living underneath London because I knew about that too. And I put people into the stories because I knew them: the ones with pumpkins for heads, and the serial killers with eyes for teeth, and the little chocolate people filled with raspberry cream and the rest of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Eye, Writing

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• No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Grief, Taken

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

  Colin Fletcher

  Passion, Addiction, Finals

  Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.15, Knopf

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• I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Art, Crazy, Niece

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• I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

  Brian Blessed

  Teacher, Drama, School

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• People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure out a way to take care of them.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  War, Stress, Thinking

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• Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.

  Chuck Yeager

  Jobs, Enjoyed

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• An awful lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good actors. There are people who just strike gold, they have intrinsic talent, but the point is that if they did train, it would not inhibit them. If they were with a good teacher, it would only broaden them more.

  Martin Landau

  People, Gold, Actors

  "Q&A: Martin Landau". Interview with Peter Debruge, variety.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.

  Francois Fenelon

  Relatives And Friends, Giving, Want

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• I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

  Tracey Emin

  Ill, Feels Right, Ifs

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• Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.

  Jim George

  Sacrifice, Two, People

  Jim George (2016). “A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage”, p.71, Harvest House Publishers

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• People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

  Eugene Ionesco

  People, Evil, Trying

  "Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6". Interview with Shusha Guppy, Paris Review, No. 93, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1984.

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• These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, People

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• Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.

  Ricky Ponting

  Spring, Player, Leader

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