Goodness Quotes - Page 30

• We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.

  Dada Vaswani

  Heart, Friendly, All Things

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• Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

  Aaron Eckhart

  People, Giving, Littles

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• Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

  Arthur Miller

  Judging, Looks, Sometimes

  Arthur Miller (1953). “The Crucible”, p.30, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?'

  David Miliband

  Optimistic, Son, Thinking

  Interview with Vincent Moss, www.mirror.co.uk. August 29, 2010.

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• Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

  Donny Osmond

  Growing Up, Parent, Important

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• Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

  E. M. Forster

  Evil, Literature

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.18, Stanford University Press

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• In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

  Edward Bond

  Past, Literature, Collectives

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• It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness.

  Frank Ocean

  Writing, Next Steps, Stories

  "Frank Ocean Says Debut Album Will 'Define' Him". www.mtv.com. January 6, 2012.

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• You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Song, Men, Fire

  Song: Great Balls of Fire

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• Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

  Harry Browne

  Country, Religious, Unique

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• There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

  Herman Melville

  Sorrow, Literature, World

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2852, Delphi Classics

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• My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

  Jim Ramstad

  Loss, Greatness, Men

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• As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I
  have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like,
  'Oh my goodness gracious — that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing which
  is cool.

  Jordin Sparks

  Moving, Kids, People

  "Jordin Sparks Shares Her Secrets!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I would never describe Charlotte as a prude. Maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing and I mean, thank goodness!

  Kristin Davis

  Girl, Mean, Prudes

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

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• Thank goodness I've saved my money.

  Kyle Chandler

  Saved

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

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• Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

  Lin Yutang

  Kindness, Believe, Simple

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• I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

  Louise Brown

  Book, Fiction Novels, Perfect

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• I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Real, Taken, Needs

  FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from May 22, 2012

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• I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

  Martin Sheen

  Jesus, Believe, Humans

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

  Rick Warren

  Integrity, Heaven

  "Pastor Rick Warren". "This Week" with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. April 8, 2012.

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• You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Believe, Thinking, Trying

  "Should Rosie Be Fired From "The View"?". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2007.

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• I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.

  Shania Twain

  Lost, Temporary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oh my goodness, I'm in love with Channing Tatum, although I think I'm too old to play his love interest. They'd probably cast me as his grandmomma's friend or something like that, but anything to be in a movie with Channing.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Thinking, Play, His Love

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• I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

  Tom Shadyac

  Fighting, Men, People

  "Tom Shadyac Interview - EVAN ALMIGHTY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 19, 2007.

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• The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

  William Ames

  Perfection, Use, Particular

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