- Fighting
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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
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle, and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
- Bad Ones
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020