Top 1200 Something Good Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth.

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

I'm always trying to find something good in a person wherever I can.

So for the question I go to the mystery of it and say I don't know. I only know that I am alive and there is something that manifests in my life, that it is God and one day I am going to understand my life, probably in the day that I die, or afterwards. But I try to find good questions and not good answers.

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

All you can do is all you can do... If all you can do, is still not good enough, then go do something else.

Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something sacred, without knowing even the abc of sacredness, without knowing anything about the eternal. Our intentions were good but our understanding was very small, almost negligible. So instead of marriage becoming something of a heaven, it has become a hell. Instead of becoming sacred, it has fallen even below profanity.

Good entrepreneurs have a chip on their shoulders. They are out to prove something.

I'm really sensitive to the beginning of a motif or a phrase or something that's kind of the backbone or becomes kind of the spine that you grow muscle tissue onto. You know from that, if you have that good beginning, it's like everything that grows off it often has potential. Maybe I'm good at that early bit of recognition of pieces of potential. I'm not sure.

In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

You get a bigger paycheck if you are the hero. There is something good about it.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human.

I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.

I'm releasing myself from the responsibility of claiming to know when something is good and when it isn't.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.

Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it; if disgrace be good, they shall have it; if crosses be good, they shall have them; if misery be good, they shall have it; for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good.

There's so much of this thing now, where you're supposed to do all the work before you get the commission. I think it's really good to try to resist that. If you just have a week to come up with a pitch for something, your ideas aren't going to be very good. Get your income from somewhere else, and keep your writing not tied into these contracts.

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted.

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight

Be ashamed to die until you have done something good for mankind.

You need to enjoy what you're doing in order to do something good. You can't force it.

The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.

Just because you're good at something, does that mean you're born to do it?

Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very expensive It bag, or whether it's Vuitton or Valentino at the moment, and it's a way to signal to one another, We're part of this tribe.

Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you think the movie is going to end badly, something dramatic happens, which leads to the happy ending. This seems like a good spot for something dramatic to happen, especially since it's my birthday.

As I've said many times, it's one thing to dream about something; it's another thing to experience it. It's one thing to think you're good enough; it's another thing to know you're good enough.

To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.

When you've done good work, you can't come back with something stupid.

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

I think England's always good at making something special.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

Good business should contain something for both parties.

Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.....Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart?

His mom always said that trust was something you earned. And it wasn't something you gave easy. Too often, it was a tool your enemies used to hurt you with. 'Give them nothing, baby. Not until you have no choice. The world is harsh and it is cold. People can be good and decent, but most of them are only out for themselves and they'll hurt anyone they can'.

The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.

It's cool to be a pioneer in something, especially in basketball in Canada, it's pretty good.

Bras should be comfortable. I hate when you have all those bras with all that wiring that poke into your ribs, and you take it off at the end of the day, and it feels good. It shouldn't feel good to take off your bra at the end of the day. It should be something that feels good throughout the day.

My style was not good. It's definitely something that's grown over time.

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

I look for really great characters. I say great because as long as they're really good, there's something you can do. And really good storytelling. And when people ask me what the story is, I say it's really several stories really. They're intermeshed.

If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.

When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.