Be Good Quotes - Page 11

• We shot on location in our very first weeks, in our very first shows. I would like to go on location again, Hawaii would be good!! But normally, we tape five days a week in the studio starting at about 8:00 a.m. and continuing until about 8:00 p.m.

  Juliet Mills

  Would Be, Tape, Hawaii

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• There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.

  Robert Browning

  Evil, Broken, Perfect

  'Abt Vogler' (1864) st. 9

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• Are we being good ancestors?

  Jonas Salk

  Thrive, Ancestor

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• I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

  Molly Parker

  Strong Women, Conscious, Complexes

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• As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sky, Feet, Lakes

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• You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Years, May, Common

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1898). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: An English Translation with Introductory Study on Stoicism and the Last of the Stoics”

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• My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

  Albert Rosenfeld

  Men, Goodness, Instinct

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• There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

  Charles Saatchi

  Artist, Sharks, Oil

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Opposites, Choices

  "The Purpose-driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2003.

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• The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

  Jonas Salk

  Important, Ancestor, Asks

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• China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.

  Mark Mobius

  Relationship, Aggravation, Differences

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• Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

  Confucius

  Law, Punishment, People

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

  Confucius

  Blow, Government, Wind

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.

  Alex Flinn

  Beautiful, People, Stories

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• You've got to be good to each other ... it really comes back to respect. I was raised in a very Catholic, Italian family and it was all about respect. Don't talk badly about [your partner] the second they walk out the door; really preserve your relationship and be good to each other. Treat it like gold.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Italian, Doors, Advice

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• It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could be getting paid a living wage on some of these jobs - at least in order to be competitive in an international setting.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Order, People

  Remarks by the President at "Open for Questions" Town Hall, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 26, 2009.

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• This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when convenient? What kind of person do you want to be?

  Charles Yu

  People, Care, Want

  Charles Yu (2012). “Sorry Please Thank You: Stories”, p.48, Vintage

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• We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Trying, Born, Do The Best

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.184, Penguin

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• Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

  Margaret Carlson

  Running, Iraq, Waste

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• Your actions toward others are your bank deposit. It's easy to be good to nice people, but try to be caring to everyone. It is a test.

  Sylvia Browne

  Nice, Caring, People

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• Sarah Palin said perhaps the most irresponsible thing I've ever heard any politician say. She said, 'The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.' You think she realizes that nuking Russia might not be good for someone who can see Russia from her house?

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Russia, House

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• For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

  Thomas Keller

  Yesterday, Cooking, Important

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• I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.

  Peter Berg

  Taken, Thinking, Skills

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• It is better to be good than to be original.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Originals

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• Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.

  Gael Greene

  Life, Practice, Feel Good

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