Good And Bad Quotes

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  It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Luck, Enemy

  LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)

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• I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

  Leif Garrett

  Believe, Sleep, Bed

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• As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Heart, Testing Yourself, Defeat

  "The Art of Peace" by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

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• If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

  Eli Wallach

  Ugly, Killing Yourself, Bad Movies

  "Fictional character: Tuco". "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

  Eli Wallach

  Ugly, Western Movie, Bad Movies

  "Fictional character: Tuco". "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

  John Steinbeck

  Football, Two, People

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• I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

  John Wooden

  Running, Player, Trying

  "Wooden Remembers Booster" by Neil Amdur, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 1982.

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• Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

  Steven Pinker

  Work Out, Robots, Goodness

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

  Gary Oldman

  Courage, Compassion, Justice

  "Batman Begins - Gary Oldman interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

  Dante Alighieri

  Perfect, Treatment, Susceptible

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• The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Integrity, Evil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Death, Passion, Light

  "The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard" edited and translated by Alexander Dru, 1959.

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• Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

  David Icke

  Situation, Term, Complexes

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Book, Humor

  New Yorker, 21 Nov. 1977

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• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mood Changes, Bad Times, Fortune

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  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Relationship, Islamic, Dying

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• In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on track.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Ambition, Track, Decision

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Keys, Ice, Games

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Europe, Sky, Style

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.591, e-artnow

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• There are two kinds of theatre, good and bad. Much as I should like to see theatre in America, I would rather have no theatre than bad theatre. What we must strive for is perfection and come as close to it as is humanly possible.

  Margo Jones

  Two, America, Perfection

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• For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.

  Justin Guarini

  Years, Collaboration, Albums

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• If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

  Freeman Dyson

  Technology, Gambling, Damnation

  1979 Disturbing the Universe, ch.1.

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• Some people think a martial artist has to be tough against everybody - that's not true at all. A martial artist has to be strong against bad people. But we must also be able to know and understand the feelings, moods and mentalities of good and bad individuals before we can comprehend when to be strong and when to be gentle.

  Tsutomu Ohshima

  Strong, Artist, Thinking

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