Very Good Quotes

• She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

  Lewis Carroll

  Happiness, Sweet, Advice

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.26, Penguin

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• The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

  Robert Graves

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

  The Observer, December 06, 1964.

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• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.

  Nathan Hale

  Order, Execution, Given

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• We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.

  Pauline Collins

  Mean, Thinking, Often Is

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• And I don't feel any fear in a sense, because I have every good intention in my heart. When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Heart, Past, Play

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• For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Trust, Girly, Truth

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

  Mae West

  Life, Tattoo, Sexy

  I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933)

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  the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Feel Good, Soul

  Charles Bukowski (1972). “Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness”

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• It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Sheep, Years

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• Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

  Benito Mussolini

  Inspirational, Funny, Sheep

  "ITALY: Duce (1922-43)". content.time.com. August 2, 1943.

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• Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Yankees, League

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• Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

  James Brown

  Heart, Awards, Giving

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• Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

  Anthony of Padua

  Doe, Saint, Credit

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• This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Want, Good Things

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• Weasels--and stoats--and foxes--and so on. They're all right in a way--I'm very good friends with them--pass the time of day when we meet, and all that--but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then--well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Good Friend, Break Out, Way

  Kenneth Grahame (1914). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

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  Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

  Ronaldinho

  Beautiful, Football, Games

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• Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child -- this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy-piggledy ways.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Race, Law

  Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914”, p.125, Psychology Press

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• ... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

  Robben Ford

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• And believe me, to have been in the city of Tuscaloosa in October when you were young and full of Early Times and had a shining Alabama girl by your side--to have had all that and then to have seen those red shirts pour onto the field, and, then, coming behind them, with that inexorable big cat walk of his, the man himself, The Bear--that was very good indeed.

  Howell Raines

  Girl, Believe, Cat

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• It's cool. One of the dudes who I made my album with who I'm a very good friend of for quite a while, I lived on his sofa for a while. And he's a professional guitar player, and he played for One Direction. And so I'd wake up on a sofa sometimes with Harry from One Direction on the other sofa, and I'd kind of be like 'you alright?'

  Ed Sheeran

  Good Friend, Player, One Direction

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• It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.

  Bon Scott

  Sweat, Alcohol, Nasty

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• I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

  Elaine Paige

  Careers, Needed, Havens

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• Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.

  Sister Parish

  Rooms, Reason, Attractive

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• Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Abuse, Awakening

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.144, A&C Black

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