- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good Quotes
Quotes on what it means to be good.
This page rounds up quotes using 'good' in different senses - the simplicity behind good mathematical solutions, the self-importance that can come with good intellectual work, and a wry line about baseball being kinder after retirement. Related pages include Good Luck Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
- Mask
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
- Confronting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
- Catalyst
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie writer. The prairie is in his voice, and it is his moral compass. It is his years spent in Waukegan, Illinois - later rechristened by Ray as 'Green Town' in many books and stories - that forever shaped him.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
- Good Manager
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- Nov 07, 2020
In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020