quotes about Good Things
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I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
-- A. J. JacobsSource : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.937, Simon and Schuster
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Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and Âirritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.
-- A.L. KennedySource : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.
-- Abu Bakar BashirSource : "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.
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I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
-- Adam Brody -
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
-- Adam Pascal -
The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.
-- Adriana TrigianiSource : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Lucia, Lucia: A Novel”, p.142, Random House
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus
-- Al RiesSource : "The Classic Mistake" by Al Ries, ries.typepad.com. June 2009.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
-- Alan Alda -
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If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.
-- Alan Loy McGinnisSource : Alan Loy McGinnis (2003). “The Friendship Factor: How to Get Closer to the People You Care for”, p.98, Augsburg Books
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If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.
-- Alan Loy McGinnisSource : Alan Loy McGinnis (1985). “Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel”, p.28, Augsburg Books
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The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
-- Alex Kapranos -
When you think small and up the middle, good things happen.
-- Alex Rodriguez -
Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.
-- Alex Rodriguez -
If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
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Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
I know that all good things must come to an end and I've had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.
-- Alonzo Mourning -
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We're all lost souls here. It's a good thing we've got each other.
-- Amy PlumSource : Amy Plum (2011). “Die For Me: Number 1 in series”, p.106, Hachette UK
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The good thing about this game? There's always tomorrow.
-- Andrew McCutchen -
The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.
-- Andrew Ross Sorkin -
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Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed.
-- Andy Andrews -
Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.
-- Anna Nicole SmithSource : "E! true Hollywood story : the real stories behind the glitter" by Lanford Beard, (p. 146), 2005.
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There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
-- Antony Garrett Lisi -
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
-- Aristotle -
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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
-- Aristotle -
That's the good thing about being President--I can do whatever I want.
-- Barack ObamaSource : Source: wwd.com
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I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.
-- Barack Obama -
Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
-- Barbara Bush -
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What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.
-- Barbara PymSource : Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult
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I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
-- Barry Sonnenfeld -
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.
-- Becca FitzpatrickSource : Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.466, Simon and Schuster
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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
-- Ben Stein -
Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
-- Billy Collins -
Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
-- Billy Corgan -
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Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.
-- Billy Gibbons -
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
-- Brooke Astor -
The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting!
-- Busy Philipps -
The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.
-- Cary Grant -
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It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.
-- Charles FrazierSource : Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.
-- Charles Studd -
There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.
-- Cheryl James -
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The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.
-- Chita RiveraSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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Good things don't happen to the child of God; the child of God brings forth good things out of him.
-- Chris Oyakhilome -
The best way to kill a good thing is question it to death.
-- Chuck Hogan -
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What kind of life am i supposed to have without you?You were the one good thing,the only good thing i ever found.
-- Claudia Gray -
I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.
-- Colin Greenwood -
The good thing about living like me is everywhere you go is a step up.
-- Craig Benzine -
A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.
-- Crispin Glover -
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You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing
-- Dale Carnegie -
... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.
-- Dan Simmons -
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
-- Daniel Gilbert -
A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.
-- Daniel Handler -
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But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-- Danny WallaceSource : Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
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No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.
-- David GestSource : "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.
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A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
-- David Simon -
And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.
-- Dean Koontz -
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When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.
-- Debby Ryan -
The basis of all choice in manifestation is Loving Yourself. This is the start and the finish to all good things that you are looking for.
-- Dee Wallace -
There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.
-- Deepak Chopra -
The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work.
-- Democritus -
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
-- Demosthenes -
Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.
-- Desi Arnaz -
For every 10 good things, there's always some jerk that wants to say something bad.
-- Devon Sawa -
The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.
-- Dick Gregory -
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If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.
-- Dick Gregory -
In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.
-- Didier DrogbaSource : "Drogba uncut: The full Q&A from Didier's interview on life, the universe and everything Chelsea". Interview with John Cross, www.mirror.co.uk. May 23, 2012.
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Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
-- Don Herold -
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
-- Don Marquis -
The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.
-- Douglas CrockfordSource : Response to the feed "Scripting News for 12/20/2006", scripting.wordpress.com. December 20, 2006.
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I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.
-- Ed Sheeran -
Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.
-- Eike Batista -
You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.
-- Elliot Perlman -
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If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
-- Elmore LeonardSource : Split Images ch. 1 (1981)
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I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'
-- Elvis Presley -
Saying you love someone is a good thing.
-- Esther EarlSource : Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.396, Penguin UK
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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
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I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.
-- Francine Pascal -
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.
-- Fred Wilson -
I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
-- Gail SimmonsSource : "Gail Simmons Dishes on Top Chef and More". Interview with Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. April 29, 2011.
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Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!
-- Gaston LerouxSource : Gaston Leroux (2016). “The Phantom of the Opera & The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Mystery Classics): The Ultimate Gothic Romance Mystery and One of the First Locked-Room Crime Mysteries”, p.105, e-artnow
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It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.
-- Gayle Forman -
It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.
-- Gaynor ArnoldSource : Gaynor Arnold (2011). “Girl in a Blue Dress”, p.321, Profile Books
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To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
-- George MacDonald -
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We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.
-- Gerry Adams -
The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.
-- Giuliano Amato -
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
-- Giuseppe VerdiSource : Giuseppe Verdi, Hans Busch (1988). “Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised version) in letters and documents”, Oxford University Press, USA
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
-- Guy de MaupassantSource : Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Maupassant Complete Short Stories: Works of Maupassant”, p.981, 谷月社
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