Good People Quotes - Page 21

• I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.

  Paul Kantner

  Christian, Thinking, People

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• Americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for this country, but what they can't take, what they can't live with is when their government is not square with them.

  Jim Jordan

  Country, Squares, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.

  Geoff Stults

  Drama, Blessed, Careers

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• There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

  James Murdoch

  Black And White, People, Might

  "This much I know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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• People can be good, people can be generous, people can be helpful. People can help those who are in need when they need it.

  Kevin Sorbo

  People, Needs, Helping

  "From “Hercules” to “Christmas Angel”: Kevin Sorbo talks about his personal journey and his role in GMC TV’s new yuletide film about the value of human kindness". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• You need to say and do the right things and good things happen to good people.

  David Ragan

  People, Needs, Good Things

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.

  Hayden Panettiere

  People, Parent, Together

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?

  Philip Zimbardo

  Drama, People, Evil

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• There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Lobbyists, Purpose

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• I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

  A. C. Benson

  Happiness, People, Unhappy

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• Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Sacrifice, People, Neighbor

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

  Hannah More

  Book, People, Want

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• good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Two, People, Listening

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• I have encountered in this world riff-raff and good people. I lose. I win. I defend myself when I am attacked. I take when someone has taken from me. But I beg you to believe me; I have never done an act of espionage against France. Never. Never.

  Mata Hari

  Believe, Taken, Winning

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• From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

  Mary McCarthy

  People, Driven, Conclusion

  Mary McCarthy (2011). “Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood”, p.15, Random House

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• I feel that I have a good enough social radar to tell good people from bad people.

  Charles Teo

  People, Good Enough, Social

  "Dr Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2011.

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• What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to do the same kind of films. You can really protect yourself as an actor if you work with really good people. It can hide a lot of flaws along the way.

  George Clooney

  People, Trying, Directors

  "The Descendants - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

  Margaret Deland

  People, Arrogance, Doubt

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• moral vanity is the snare of good people.

  Margaret Deland

  Vanity, People, Morality

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• A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.

  Buck Owens

  Song, People, Guy

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• I'm not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing: that involvement has connected me with the good people: people with the live hearts, the live eyes, the live heads.

  Pete Seeger

  Heart, Eye, Differences

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• I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.

  Marco Pierre White

  Children, People, Want

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• I love my tribe, the Maasai are very good people and humble.

  David Rudisha

  Humble, People, Maasai

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• If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Disappointment, People, Election

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.25, Penguin

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• There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.

  Michel Foucault

  Determination, Exercise, People

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