Quotes of: Good-deeds Keyword

I'm a good enough person to forgive you, and you should be a good enough person to not do it again.

Annette Thomas

A good story is like a well-placed punch: quick, effective, and impossible to ignore.

Life

The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient in a good mood while nature does the healing.

Voltaire

Challenges lead to Growth, Grow matures ones daily living, Living a good life expedites....Wisdom

Vernetta Norman

Play a bigger part in doing more good in the world, it is good for you and for business.

Wesam Fawzi

Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good...

Dance Dance Dance

I am telling you now: I might be young, but I am good. I work hard, and I'm a good person. I know what's right. I know what's wrong. And if you give me this chance-- if you just give me one shot to show you how good I can be, how hard I work, how muc...

Hawkeye, Vol. 3: L.A. Woman

There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of bad; not changing things, but generally considered good and bad throughout the ages and throughout the species. Of the good, we t...

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

You know that euphemism, she’s expecting? It’s apt. The birth of a baby, so long as it’s healthy, is something to look forward to. It’s a good thing, a big, good, huge event. And from thereon in, every good things, too,” I added hurriedly, ...

We Need to Talk About Kevin

A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel and feeling fine, and it is no good writing a whole novel feeling miserable. It has to be both, that mixture of anxiety and ambition, and you...

Martin Amis

The Perfect Person's Rule of Life: The perfect person does not only try to avoid evil. Nor does he do good for fear of punishment, still less in order to qualify for the hope of a promised reward. The perfect person does good through love. His action...

Clement of Alexandria

Jonathan Mardukas: Why would you eat that? Jack Walsh: Why? 'Cause it tastes good. Jonathan Mardukas: But it's not good for you. Jack Walsh: I'm aware of that. Jonathan Mardukas: Why do something that you know is not good for you? Jack Walsh: Because...

Midnight Run

Danny Archer: So you think because your intentions are good, they'll spare you, huh? Benjamin Kapanay: My heart always told me that people are inherently good. My experience suggests otherwise. But what about you, Mr. Archer? In your long career as a...

Blood Diamond

You can always find good elements in the misfortune that strikes you.

Arabian

Old bachelors and old maids are either too good or too bad.

Basque

Water from far away is no good for a fire close by.

Chinese

Men can bear all things except good days.

Dutch

Who has only one eye must take good care of it.

Dutch

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

English

One good argument is worth more than ten better ones.

French

The good white man dies, the bad one remains.

Haitian