Good Quotes - page 12

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it. (George Soros)
Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway. View quote
Ethel Merman
The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity. View quote
Maria Montessori
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. View quote
George Eliot
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. View quote
Thomas Hardy
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. View quote
Truman Capote
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. (W. Somerset Maugham)
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game. View quote
Gary Gygax
Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be. View quote
Angelina Jolie
Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else. View quote
Angelina Jolie
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. View quote
Petrarch
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. View quote
Petrarch
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. (Thomas Carlyle)
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. View quote
Robert Capa