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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
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.
- Entire Lives
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.
- Nov 07, 2020
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success can be as simple as the warm feeling you get when you smile at a stranger, someone you know must be lonely, and having that stranger return your smile. It can be the bringing of a child into the world and raising that child to be a good man or woman.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.
- Good Deal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.
- Good Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
- Good Habits
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- Nov 07, 2020