Good Man Quotes - Page 29

• The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

  C. S. Lewis

  Past, Men, Heaven

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• There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

  Terrence Malick

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Needs, Looks

  "On Education" (1867)

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• If Jesus is not God, then there is no Christianity, and we who worship Him are nothing more than idolaters. Conversely, if He is God, those who say He was merely a good man, or even the best of men, are blasphemers. More serious still, if He is not God, then He is a blasphemer in the fullest sense of the word. If He is not God, He is not even good.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Jesus, Men, Serious

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.809, Moody Publishers

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• If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.

  Jeff Garlin

  Maniacs, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Jeff Greene". "Curb Your Enthusiasm. The Wire. Season 1", (2000– ).

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• When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Men, Evil, Moral

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• Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

  C. S. Lewis

  Years, True Or False, Christianity

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.72, HarperCollins UK

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• My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.

  Leona Lewis

  Wise, Children, Dad

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship.

  Louis Armstrong

  Men, Feel Good, Tea

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• It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life, I would be rewarded after death. Those beliefs, sincerely held, can get a human being through many hard times.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Powerful, Good Life, Hard Times

  Bill O'Reilly (2013). “Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World”, p.39, Crown Archetype

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• Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?

  Mika Brzezinski

  Jobs, Men, Odds

  "Don’t Forget To Have Kids" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

  Bonnie Tyler

  Wise, Fighting, Men

  Song: Holding Out for a Hero, 1986

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• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Men, Waiting

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• "If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Winning, Heaven, Succeed

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.332, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

  Euripides

  Character, Men, Doe

  "Temenidae". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.

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• There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Survivor, Benefits

  "An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments".

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• Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Men, Support

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• Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

  Tracy McMillan

  Self Esteem, Boys, Men

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• I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

  Faith Ringgold

  Daughter, Men, Feminist

  Faith Ringgold, New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.), Akron Art Museum (1998). “Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts”, p.61, Univ of California Press

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• All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Jesus, Men, Gentleman

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what is built upon Necessity; for unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Honesty, Men, People

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark Q, pp. 207-208, 1732.

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• A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, May, Fortune

  1605-6 Kent. King Lear, act 2, sc.2, l.148.

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• It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Doe, Littles

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• It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Worthy, Denied

  Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Martin Luther (1841). “Life of Martin Luther”, p.167

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• I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

  Cillian Murphy

  Men, Contradiction, Not Interested

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

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