Good Man Quotes - Page 19

• As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Men, Lasts, Concerned

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• It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

  Nora Roberts

  Boys, Men, Bad Boy

  Nora Roberts (2010). “Happy Ever After”, p.82, Penguin

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• You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Love You, Men

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1306, Simon and Schuster

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• Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

  Colum McCann

  Men, People, Evil

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the truth.

  Michael J. Fox

  Men, People, Listening

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• I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

  John Buchan

  Hate, Men, Knives

  John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.19, e-artnow

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• A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Strong, Men, Needs

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.567, Macmillan

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• How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

  Bram Stoker

  Thoughtful, Men, Monsters

  Bram Stoker (2009). “Dracula”, p.192, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

  Kurt Cobain

  Men, Lips, Remember

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• Greetings, O Great Gazoo. How nice of you to join us here on planet Earth again. (Cael) Thanks, Barney. How’s Betty and Bam Bam doing? (Acheron) Great, if I could only get them away from Wilma and Pebbles. Those women are nothing but trouble. (Cael) Nah, they’re good women. It’s the ones in red who are always the downfall of good men. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Men, Good Woman

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• Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry." I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves. Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy.

  Jim Butcher

  Crazy, Humble, Men

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• Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

  Aristotle

  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

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• The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.

  John Connolly

  Pain, Grief, Loss

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• He's a good man," Ranger said. "And you?" "I'm better.

  Janet Evanovich

  Men, Said, Rangers

  Janet Evanovich (2009). “Lean Mean Thirteen”, p.53, Macmillan

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• You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Heart, Men

  "Books of The Times" by John Leonard, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1979.

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• I jerked my chin toward Frost’s body. ‘All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.’ Hao said, “Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else.” Half-naked, covered with the same filth we all were, he still gave the impression of being in control of himself and his environment.

  Patricia Briggs

  Men, Said Life, Evil

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• Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

  Dennis Lehane

  Men, Monsters, Would Be

  "Shutter Island". www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• I see this piece of legislation as essentially being a declaration of virtual war. It is giving the President tremendous powers to pursue war efforts against a sovereign nation. ...I think it is another example of a flawed foreign policy that we have followed for a good many decades.

  Ron Paul

  War, Thinking, Giving

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• I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heat that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John-only somewhat bewildered.

  Elizabeth Proctor

  Men, Judging, Heat

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• A good many preachers say I am lowering the pulpit. I am glad I am. I am trying to get it down to the level of men's hearts. If I wanted to hit Chicago I would not put the cannon on the top of this building and fire into the air. Too many preachers fire into the air.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Heart, Men, Fire

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• If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

  Plato

  Men, Answers, Easy

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• Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Taken, Cutting

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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• It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Evil, Good Things

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.912, Catholic Way Publishing

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• I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Brother, Men, Names

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• A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Gloating

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