Be Good Quotes - Page 7

• My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared and really excited. You don't know what's coming next but you know it's going to be good. You can't handle it, go on the carousel

  Gina Gershon

  Goes On, Next, Scared

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• Sometimes after an enjoyable family home evening, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-matured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!'

  Marlin K. Jensen

  Prayer, Home, Sunday

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• My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.

  Helen Keller

  Two, Optimism, Facts

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Before Santa and presents and shopping and all the attendant Christmas (stuff) got involved, this holiday was enshrined to commemorate a guy who got nailed to a tree for daring to tell people to be kind to one another. If you have two cloaks, He said, give one away. Remember those who have less than you, be charitable, be good, be merciful.

  William Rivers Pitt

  Holiday, Shopping, Two

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• The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing. I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

  Carey Mulligan

  Running, Jobs, People

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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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• I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn’t think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

  James McAvoy

  Boys, Thinking, Talking

  Interview with John Preston, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 15, 2011.

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• Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

  Brian Eno

  Fun, Just Being, Merit

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• My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.

  Alan Thicke

  Sports, Fun, Believe

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• I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

  Jack Kirby

  Interesting, Answers, Life Is

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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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• 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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• I don’t want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

  Andy Murray

  Car, Singing, Would Be

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

  John Stuart Mill

  Mean, Calling, Hell

  'Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy' (1865) ch. 7

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• What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

  Patricia MacLachlan

  Journey, Perfect, Good Enough

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• You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

  Wallace Stegner

  Attention, Pay, Emotion

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• I'm on the pursuit of happiness, and I know, Everything that shine ain't always gonna be gold, Hey, I'll be fine once I get it, I'll be good...

  Kid Cudi

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Shining, Gold

  "Song: Pursuit of Happiness (Man on the Moon: The End of Day)". January 25, 2010.

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• I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.

  Tamsin Greig

  Strong, Children, Past

  "Tamsin Greig: Green Goddess". The Independent Interview, www.independent.co.uk. May 05, 2006.

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• The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

  John Foster Dulles

  Would Be, United Nations, United

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• The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once you have conquered all your sins, pride is the one which will conquer you. A man starts off deciding he is a good man because he makes good decisions. Next thing, he's convinced that whatever decision he makes must be good because he's a good man. Most of the wars in the world are caused by people who think they have god on their side. Always stick with people who know they are flawed and ridiculous.

  Helen Fielding

  War, Pride, Men

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• There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Writing, News, World

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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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• The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

  Bjork

  Country, People, Criticism

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• I approach the heptathlon and life in the same way in that I not only want to be good at what I am doing, but I want it to mean something.

  Shelia Burrell

  Mean, Track, Want

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