Quotes of: Good-nature Keyword

And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.

Terrence Howard

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

Vikram Seth

Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material—much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft—and then th...

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

She wore a flowered blue dress of the type whores naturally favored, and that thing was so tight that when she moved, the daisies got all mixed up with the azaleas. She walked like a warm room full of smoke.

The Good Lord Bird

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propagand...

Art of the Rifle

I see there is a good deal of grandiloquence in my book — my friends and foes have told me. I think it must be true, for there is a good deal of grandiloquence in me — and in nature also: I saw a sunset last evening that was a gross imposition up...

The Poems of Max Ehrmann

There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But it's hard to ignore th...

Julie Klausner

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. W...

Charles R. Swindoll

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and ...

Henry Petroski

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Charles Baudelaire

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Charles Baudelaire

This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.

Marie Windsor

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.

Jane Pauley

I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

Alan Alda

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

Algernon Sidney

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

Bill Moyers

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

Bryn Terfel

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

James F. Cooper

I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.

Jenna Dewan

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

Jack Kingston

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

L. Sprague de Camp