Quotes of: Good-person Keyword

a shift in thinking’ toward someone who has wronged you, ‘such that your desire to harm that person has decreased and your desire to do him good (or to benefit your relationship) has increased.’ Forgiveness, at a minimum, is a decision to let g...

Sonja Lyubomirsky

What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes ...

The Braindead Megaphone

This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when convenient? What kind of person do you want to be?

Sorry Please Thank You: Stories

It is good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Brooks stuck his hands in his pockets and examined his shoes. It would be nice to be known fully and still loved, but what if it was one or the other? What if by the time someone got to know you, the person didn’t love you anymore? And when could y...

Emma, Mr. Knightley, and Chili-Slaw Dogs

I’m not a superhero. I’m background. I’m a good person wrapped in mediocre soul. I want to be better. I really do. But even now in my greatest moment I know this is as good as it will ever get for me and it’s not that good. I have a small hea...

Third Class Superhero

Don’t put people, or anything else, on pedestals, not even your children. Avoid global labels such as genius or weirdo. Realize those closest get the benefit of the doubt and so do the most beautiful and radiant among us. Know the halo effect cause...

You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

Gerry Adams

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

Lindsay Fox

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

Rolf Harris

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

Bill Kurtis

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

B. J. Novak

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Bob Schieffer

On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.

Colleen Atwood

I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.

Emily Deschanel

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

Edvard Munch

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Edvard Munch

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

Hope Davis

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

Jarvis Cocker

I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.

James Badge Dale

I've always found that I personally love to observe things, and I'm good at observing things.

Jamie Johnson