Quotes of: Good-men-to-do-nothing Keyword

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

Tamala Jones

Sometimes good people do bad things.

Andrew Gilmore

You cannot study acting in books. Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

Max von Sydow

If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of...

Patrick Rothfuss

Use your good common sense. Is anger useful? If you get angry at someone, the result is good neither for you nor for the other person. Nothing helpful comes of it. In the end, anger does not harm others; it hurts yourself.

How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourse...

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Once you commit to something, you just manage through each moment. And nothing truly awful happened. The voyage over was uneventful. I found work right away, just not very good work. The worst thing wasn't something terrible, it was the lack of anyth...

Magic Under Stone

You want me.” “Want does not begin to describe the way I feel about you,” his low voice promised. “Want is nothing compared with the level of desire I have. With the desperation I feel. With the way I long for you.

No Good Duke Goes Unpunished

Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

Sylvia Plath

Stop doing stuff that doesn’t help you reach your goals. It sounds simple, doesn’t it? It’s a shame almost no one does it. The most common way we work more and do less is by working on the wrong stuff. We spend our time doing, doing, doing, eve...

Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More

Not wine, men intoxicate themselves; not vice, men entice themselves.

Chinese

A lock is meant only for honest men.

Yiddish

In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He said it was men invented virginity not women. Father said it's like death: only a state in which the others are left and I s...

The Sound and the Fury

love doesn't have to feel good in order to exist.

Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do For Love And How To Avoid Them

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

William Blake

What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer.

The Laughing Corpse

You govern people, you do good and bad things. If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.

Oops! Did I Really Post That

It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.

Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

Jeff Bridges