Good Quotes

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

~ William Samuel Johnson

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

~ Hedy Lamarr

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

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

~ Charles Baudelaire

Trying to force creativity is never good.

~ Sarah Mclachlan

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

~ Bell Hooks

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

~ Jack Bowman

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

~ William E. Simon

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

~ Jackie Kennedy

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

~ William J. Clinton

People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.

~ Eddie Vedder

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

~ Milton Friedman

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

~ Pope Francis

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

~ Bill Gates

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

~ Claudia Rankine

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

~ Angela Merkel

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

~ Paul Wellstone

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

~ Lincoln Steffens

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

~ Pope Francis

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

~ Pope Francis

Good government is good politics.

~ Richard J. Daley

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

~ P. J. O'rourke

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

~ Mark Rutte

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

~ Andrew Sullivan

I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to politics. He's a good man, a man who cares. It's good to have people like that in politics, I have no problem with that.

~ Yair Lapid

A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

~ Walter Cronkite

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

~ Rutherford B. Hayes

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

~ Donna Brazile

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

~ Jim Demint

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

~ James Russell Lowell

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

~ A. S. Byatt

Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business.

~ Brian Wilson

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

~ Angela Davis

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

~ Thomas P. O'neill

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.

~ Phil Crane

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

~ Robert Staughton Lynd

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

~ Tyne Daly

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

~ Solange Knowles