“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.”
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“Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.”
“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.”
“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
“It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.”
“Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.”
“I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'”
“Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.”
“Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.”
“Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.”
“Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.”
“I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.”
“All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.”
“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”
“You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.”
“Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.”
“If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.”
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
“You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.”
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
“Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.”
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
“And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.”
“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.”