Perfectly Good Quotes - Page 2

• Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

  Hugh Nibley

  Views, Impossible, Unlikely

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• There are perfectly good independent small nations.

  David Attenborough

  Independent, Nations, Small Nations

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• It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very option ourselves, we have no shortage of perfectly good reasons for why we just happen to be doing the same thing as those other people; they mindlessly conform, but we mindfully choose. This doesn't mean that we're all conformists in denial. It means that we regularly fail to recognize that others' thoughts and behaviors are just as complex and varied as our own. Rather than being alone in a crowd of sheep, we're all individuals in sheep's clothing.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mean, Sheep, People

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• Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

  Molly Ivins

  Upset, Touching, Doubt

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.72, Vintage

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• So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

  Kurt Loder

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Change, Beautiful, Laughter

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• States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

  Kenneth Waltz

  Law, World, Individual

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.163, Columbia University Press

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• There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, World, Contradiction

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.557, Manonmani Publishers

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• A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.

  Doug Larson

  Children, Cat, Giving

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• Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

  Aldous Huxley

  Bird, Mouths, Imagine

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “Island”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, Editors, English Words

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• I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

  Hugh Shelton

  Airplane, Men, Thrill

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "The Larry King Live Show", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you will get tired of it. One cannot just go on eating, drinking, and merrying. Soon the merry-go-round turns into a sorry-go-round - because it is repetitive. Only a very mediocre mind can go on being happy with it.

  Rajneesh

  Sorry, Drinking, Tired

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• There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

  Robert Breault

  Winning, Excuse, Reason

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• I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

  Mike Leigh

  Thinking, Actors, Film

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• I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

  Paul McGann

  Simple, Thinking, Talking

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• Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

  Bill Johnson

  Water, Thieves, Boat

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• A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

  Allan Sherman

  Government, Color, Groups

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• We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.

  John Schlesinger

  Ideas, Done, Wrecks

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• This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Mean, Focus, Hardship

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• What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Bricks, Fallen Angels

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyway, he's [Simon] obviously not here. Go back to what you were doing. What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say." And she [Isabelle] stalked off, back toward the bar. - City of Fallen Angels pg 188 hardcover

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Angel, Cities

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• We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

  Stephen Fry

  Language

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• ‎"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I’ve been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that’s afflicted me most of my life.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Long Ago, Lust

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• They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

  Tawni O'Dell

  Teacher, Fun, Book

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