Good Enough Quotes - Page 5

• The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

  Charlaine Harris

  Break Up, Breakup, Couple

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.23, Penguin

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• I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them." ...Lucy

  Jane Green

  Insecure, Thinking, Insecurity

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• New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

  John Steinbeck

  New York, Children, Dirty

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.44, Penguin

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• Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline. I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session.

  Dean Koontz

  Running, Dog, Play

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.950, Bantam

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• Me, Polly Garter, under the washing line, giving the breast in the garden to my bonny new baby. Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. And where's their fathers live, my love? Over the hills and far away. You're looking up at me now. I know what you're thinking, you poor little milky creature. You're thinking, you're no better than you should be, Polly, and that's good enough for me. Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

  Dylan Thomas

  Baby, Father, Garden

  Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 30

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• Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.

  Lauren Kate

  Powerful, Fighting, Noble

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.358, Delacorte Press

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• What, eBay isn't good enough for us?

  James Patterson

  Ebay, Enough

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• All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Love, Lying, Hero

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.274, Dial Press

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• Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Humility, Perfection

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.

  Lynsay Sands

  Not Good Enough, Enough, Ifs

  Nancy Martin, Lynsay Sands (2015). “A Quick Bite”, p.19, Harlequin

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• If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

  Jonathan Ive

  Not Good Enough, Design, Ifs

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• By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Perfection, Definitions, Made

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

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• The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.

  William Goldman

  Feet, Tree, Tears

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Sacrifice, Expectations

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• Success in anything is about focus and concentration. When I coached, I'd say to the players, 'Yes, I know you played hard, but that's not good enough. You've got to stay focused on the task at hand the entire game.'

  Rick Barry

  Player, Focus And Concentration, Hands

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• I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You're my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you." -Kev to Win

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fighting, Winning, Men

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Seduce Me at Sunrise”, p.260, Macmillan

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• Stop wondering if you're good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it.

  Simon Black

  Acting, Wonder, Knows

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• Some times your best effort just isn't good enough.

  LeBron James

  Best Effort, Effort, Enough

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• The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

  Oswald Chambers

  Not Good Enough, Enemy, Faith In God

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “Faith: A Holy Walk”, p.62, Discovery House

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• The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Enough, Endeavor

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.215, Yale University Press

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• My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Son, Thinking, Opposites

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.

  Eric Weiner

  Thinking, Goal, Mind

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• I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

  Aminu Kano

  Mean, Government, Gossip

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• Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don’t – well, I think I’ve cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don’t know that they’ve got a daughter, you see.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Dad, Thinking

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• We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

  Stephen King

  Enough, Be Good, Ifs

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dead Zone”, p.579, Simon and Schuster

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