Good People Quotes - Page 5

• In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, People, Complicated

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• HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

  Richard Russo

  Stay Strong, Hbo, People

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• There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

  Herbert Simon

  Technology, Thinking, People

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• Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst.

  Richard Dooling

  People, Judging, Criminals

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• I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

  Damian Marley

  Mother, Brother, School

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• There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that won't hold water. Many of the difficulties encountered by young people going to college would be avoided if parents and teachers were more careful to distinguish between what they know to be true and what they think may be true. Impetuous youth, upon finding the authority it trusts crumbling, even on unimportant details, is apt to lump everything together and throw the baby out with the bath.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Baby, Teacher, College

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• Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.

  Sherwood Smith

  Song, War, Winning

  Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Punishment, People

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• If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Daughter, Fate, Light

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• Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.

  Alan Furst

  Dog, Thinking, People

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• I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

  Isak Dinesen

  Grandmother, People, Looks

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.109, Vintage

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• Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

  Willa Cather

  Prayer, People, Said

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• Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Sometimes, Terrible

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• Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy and no reason at all. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognised, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Loneliness, Hero

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• When you give of yourself something new comes in to being... the world expands, a bit of goodness is brought forth and a small miracle occurs. You must never underestimate this miracle. Too many good people think they have to become Mother Teresa or Albert Schweitzer, or even Santa Claus, and perform great acts if they are to be givers. They don't see the simple openings of the heart that can be practiced anywhere with almost anyone.

  Kent Nerburn

  Mother, Heart, Simple

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.75, New World Library

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• It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  People, Littles, Heard

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.64, Vintage

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• This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

  Lorrie Moore

  People, Moral, Kind

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• Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

  Erin Gruwell

  People, Evil

  Erin Gruwell (2016). “1,001 Pearls of Teachers' Wisdom: Quotations on Life and Learning”, p.11, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.

  Ben Sherwood

  Grief, Math, Two

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.267, Bantam

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• I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Looks, Want

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.66, New Directions Publishing

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• Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Understanding, Way

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “Rebekah”

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• Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Block, Smart

  Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

  Lee Iacocca

  People, Priorities, Management

  Lee Iacocca, Catherine Whitney (2008). “Where Have All the Leaders Gone?”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• This is a collaborative enterprise," she says. "You have to surround yourself with good people and help them to do what they do well, as opposed to micromanaging.

  Robbie Myers

  People, Micromanaging, Helping

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• If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  People, Evil, Christian Inspirational

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2007). “When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness”, p.41, Moody Publishers

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