Good Things Quotations | Page 3

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.

Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.

We've gotten rid of (Saddam Hussein), and I suppose that's a good thing.

Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.

Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.

My role relationship to the event will continue to mutate. My relationship to my mother will continue to change as I revise my judgments of her depending on what I learn about her. It goes on. But I feel no less obsessive about my work and no less passionately committed to the life I have now, but I feel poised inside. Which is a good thing to feel at 48.

It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things.

Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

Do not be afraid to go into uncharted territories. You might find some pretty good things there.

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

You don't know a good thing until it's gone.And found something else

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.

The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.

Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don’t read reviews, I mean I don’t read reviews.

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.

I haven't been in politics too long so that's a good thing.

I have to make good things so good comedians want to talk to me.

The good thing about love is nobody can stop you from loving them.

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

Politics is a good thing!

But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.

I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard.

Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the term "foodie." I am still not sure that a gourmet is a good thing to be, but it must be better than a foodie.

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.

We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.

There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.

Values are good things only if they are good values.

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.

Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

I eventually realized that good things wouldnt happen to me if I didnt make the right choices.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

A good thing never ends.

There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.

All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at #‎ camp

I fell out of the hammock while I was sleeping. (Arik) On your head? (Geary) Apparently. Good thing it’s hard, huh? (Arik)

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

Generally I don't like traveling around saying the exact same thing. I don't think that's a very good thing to do with your life.

A bloody good thing, but too late.

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

Every good thing great and small needs defense

If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

When you think positive, good things happen.

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

Good things soon find a purchaser.

Im a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I dont like passive good guys.

...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.

Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

The good thing about being explosive is that no one can beat you.

If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.

The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

Most people dont know that Ill eat anything spicy. A little extra kick is always a good thing!

He balled up my discarded sweatshirt and put it against his shoulder. “Go on,” he said. “I don’t bite.” “And from what I hear, that’s a good thing.” He gave a rumbling chuckle. “Yeah, it is.” I leaned against his shoulder.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.

We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.