Good And Bad Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Misfits, Metaphysical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

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• Voters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit the candidates to a religious test is unfair enough - to apply it to the voters is divisive, degrading and wholly unwarranted.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Catholic, Mind

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• Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Goodness, Bad Man

  "The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge with an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions".

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• Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.

  Justin Torres

  Animal, Thinking, Evil

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the 'right' notes and the 'wrong' ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Law, Two

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• The seraph looked up, and pain sliced through my head as our eyes met, almost blinding me. "I honor you. You can do something I cannot," it said softly. "For all I am and all I have been, you are human. You are loved for your inventiveness, both good and bad. I can kill, but you can create. You can even create...an end," it said wistfully. "That's something I will never be able to do. Accept this. Create.

  Kim Harrison

  Pain, Eye, Honor

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• If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Thinking, World

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

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• Armel shrugged. "I suppose so, Brother, but why do creatures have to fight?" Demple picked Mudge up and placed him on his shoulder. "Because there's always good and bad in the land, and goodbeasts have to protect their friends an' families from evil ones who want nothing but to conquer an' destroy.

  Brian Jacques

  Brother, Fighting, Land

  Brian Jacques (2005). “Rakkety Tam: A Novel of Redwall”, p.165, Penguin

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• All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

  Anne Bronte

  Strength, Exercise, Talent

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.232, Diversion Books

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• When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that is barely discernible. One's fingertips must grasp the key, gently warming it. And then the key must be turned once, not twice.

  Isaac Babel

  Keys, Secret, Phrases

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• We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

  Irving Stone

  Religious, Art, Believe

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• The great news is that God knows everything about you, both good and bad, and He still loves you and values you unconditionally. God does not always approve of our behavior. He is not pleased when we go against his will, and when we do, we always suffer the consequences and have to work with Him to correct our thoughts, words, actions, or attitudes. And while you should work to improve in the areas where you fall short, nothing you do will ever cause God to love you less…or more. His love is a constant you can depend on.

  Joel Osteen

  Attitude, Fall, Love You

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• Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness

  Richard Wright

  Lonely, Self, White

  Richard Wright (2010). “American Hunger”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

  Larry David

  Funny, Thinking, Bad Grades

  "Larry David: More Enthusiasm, Curbed". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 23, 2005.

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• I didn’t know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning every happy memory I had of growing up. Without it ruining everything Beck and I had. I didn’t understand how someone could be both God and the devil. How the same person could destroy you and save you. When everything I was, good and bad, was knotted with threads of his making, how was I supposed to know whether to love or hate him?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Growing Up, Memories, Hate

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.740, Scholastic Inc.

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  Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

  Adam Sandler

  Making Love, Cracks, Chemistry

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• John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Years, Ironic

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• When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

  Ramakrishna

  Vision, Divine, Lows

  Ramakrishna (1965). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of them, their number being 1120”

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• How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.

  Anne Frank

  Fall, New Day, Mind

  Anne Frank (1972). “Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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• History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.

  Rachel Nichols

  Fickle, Economic, Recessions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

  Juliet Marillier

  Hair, Shade, Sunlight

  Juliet Marillier (2007). “Child of the Prophecy: Book Three of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.254, Macmillan

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• It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Christmas, Mother, Memories

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• I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Doctrine, Sides

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• Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Believe, Flames, America

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