Perfectly Good Quotes - Page 2

• Over the last 30 odd years, Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into the mental hospital. So what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund managers, credit card companies, banks, defense contractors, big agriculture and the pharmaceutical lobby... That's the Democrats. And they sit across the aisle from a small group of religious lunatics, flat-earthers and civil war re-enactors who mostly communicate by AM radio and call themselves the Republicans and who actually worry that Obama is a socialist. Socialist? He's not even a liberal.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, War, Party

  "Real Time with Bill Maher".

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• There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Change, Beautiful, Laughter

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• I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

  Hugh Shelton

  Airplane, Men, Thrill

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "The Larry King Live Show", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Mean, Focus, Hardship

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• I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

  Paul McGann

  Simple, Thinking, Talking

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• Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

  Bill Johnson

  Water, Thieves, Boat

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• I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

  Mike Leigh

  Thinking, Actors, Film

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• There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

  Robert Breault

  Winning, Excuse, Reason

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• Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you will get tired of it. One cannot just go on eating, drinking, and merrying. Soon the merry-go-round turns into a sorry-go-round - because it is repetitive. Only a very mediocre mind can go on being happy with it.

  Rajneesh

  Sorry, Drinking, Tired

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• Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

  Aldous Huxley

  Bird, Mouths, Imagine

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “Island”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.

  John Schlesinger

  Ideas, Done, Wrecks

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• A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

  Allan Sherman

  Government, Color, Groups

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• I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, Editors, English Words

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  I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.

  Rihanna

  May

  Song: S&M, Album: Loud

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• Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

  Neil Gaiman

  Teeth, Arseholes, Mouths

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• "Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.

  John Waters

  Rights, Racism, Hatred

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• A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.

  Doug Larson

  Children, Cat, Giving

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• Laughter is such a healthy exercise. Somebody is laughing - that's perfectly good exercise, join him. Somebody is being playful - if you have time, join him.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Exercise, Laughing

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• There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Evil People, Punishment

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.169, e-artnow

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• Buddha says: Life should be simple, not complex. Life should be based on needs, not on desires. Needs are perfectly okay: you need food, you need clothes, you need a shelter, you need love, you need relationship. Perfectly good, nothing wrong in it. Needs can be fulfilled; desires are basically unfulfillable. Desires create complexity. They create complexity because they can never be fulfilled. You go on and on working hard for them, and they remain unfulfilled, and you remain empty.

  Rajneesh

  Love You, Simple, Clothes

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• I know I hated magic for a reason," Janco said. "Congratulations. This is the first time you've had a VALID reason to hate something," Ari countered. "Remember your campaign against sand?" "Sand! Horrid little stuff. Gets everywhere. I had a perfectly good argue--" "Janco." Ari's voice rumbled deep in his throat. In a heartbeat, Janco switched gears. "Well, this blood magic sounds worse than sand.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hate, Congratulations, Blood

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Storm Glass”, p.422, MIRA

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• The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Hate, Believe

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• Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

  Jennifer Fallon

  Men, Noble, Underestimate

  Jennifer Fallon (2008). “Warlord: Book Six of the Hythrun Chronicles”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

  Jon Anderson

  Christmas, Shopping, Ideas

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• 3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.

  Roger Ebert

  Crazy, Suicidal, Nausea

  "Roger Ebert On Why 3D Movies Suck" by Gillian Reagan, www.businessinsider.com. April 29, 2010.

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