Be Good Quotes - Page 24

• Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

  C.J. Sansom

  Boys, People, Littles

  C. J. Sansom (2006). “Winter in Madrid”, Macmillan Children's Books

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• Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Sex, Golf, Enjoy

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• Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  People, Needs, Policy

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• Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Buddhist, Heart

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• Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Vegetables, Years

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.

  Owen Wister

  Men, Doctors, Bishops

  Owen Wister (2012). “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that's at least 10 times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter.

  Ben Horowitz

  Technology, Two, People

  "HOROWITZ: How To Build A Great Culture At Your Startup" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. December 19, 2012.

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• If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.

  Hakim ibn Hizam

  Wisdom, Islamic, Honour You

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• But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

  Edward Bond

  World

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• Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.

  Larisa Kuznetsova

  Teacher, Teaching, Class

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• Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good at being a man within a small, embattled gang of men struggling to survive.

  Jack Donovan

  Struggle, Men, Costumes

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• There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.

  Jack Donovan

  Men, Differences, Good Man

  "The Way of Men". Book by Jack Donovan, March 22, 2012.

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• It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.

  Miguel Cabrera

  Baseball, Moments, Happens

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• I could puke on myself and still be good looking.

  Scott Disick

  Looking Good, Stills, Puke

  "Kourtney Kardashian's Boyfriend Still Bad News?" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. December 28, 2009.

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• We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.

  Aaron Boone

  Team, Reality, Years

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• Good education has got to be good entertainment.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Entertainment, Good Education

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• He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a partner in preventing people from getting sick ... and that was part of our motivation for changing the Medicare system, and we are in the midst of a revolution in Medicare that will, for many, many generations have real results that will be good for America and good for American citizens.

  Andrew Card

  Motivation, Real, Government

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• Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.

  Marcia Wallace

  Jobs, Heart, Feelings

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• It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at both. I'm very glad I did this play.

  Will Davis

  Play, Focus, Singing

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• Being good enough never is.

  Debbi Fields

  Self Improvement, Good Enough, Improvement

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• A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Grief, Men, Political

  "The Prince".

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• If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Animal, Self

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• Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  People, Interesting, Ballet

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• They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.

  Winston Churchill

  People, London, Would Be

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• I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sports, Real, Writing

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2007.

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