“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.”
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“I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.”
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
“The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”
“Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.”
“A good deed never goes unpunished.”
“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”
“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
“No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.”
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”
“Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?”
“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.”
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.”
“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”
“You can do more good by being good than any other way.”
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.”
“About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.”