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

  John Steinbeck

  Football, Two, People

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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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• We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement.

  Henry Clay

  Reflection, President, Able

  Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Candidate, Compromiser, Elder Statesman, January 1, 1844-June 29, 1852”, p.553, University Press of Kentucky

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• All that you do will come back to you. Good and bad.

  Mirjana Puhar

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• A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Fighting, Games, Chess Game

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• It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Honesty, Drug, Essentials

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a condition or event is not either good or bad but is, rather, both good and bad, not sequentially, but simultaneously.

  Nancy Mairs

  Pain, Blessed, Views

  Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial

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• To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you.

  Chris Copeland

  Support, Folks, Ups & Downs

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• I think when you experience things in your life, dealing with good and bad things, you just become stronger in so many ways.

  Britney Spears

  Thinking, Stronger, Way

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