Good Quotes

The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry.

~ Juan Felipe Herrera

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.

~ Herschel Walker

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

~ Andrew Motion

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

~ Tristan Wilds

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.

~ John Fuller

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.

~ Carine Roitfeld

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

~ Simon Wiesenthal

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

~ Gifford Pinchot

I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.

~ Charles Bukowski

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

~ George Orwell

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

~ William Shakespeare

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

~ John Milton

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

~ Sophocles

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

~ Barack Obama

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

~ Rutherford B. Hayes

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

~ Sarah Jessica Parker

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

~ Samuel Adams

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

~ Tacitus

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

~ Daniel Webster

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

~ Katharine Whitehorn

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

~ Carl Hiaasen

You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.

~ Nina Simone

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.

~ Bernie Siegel

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

~ Sarah Bernhardt

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

~ David Simon

I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first couple of gallons in your tank - when you've had enough, and you're just pissed off enough to go for it. In a lot of ways, that sort of environment can be a catapult for a great situation.

~ Josh Homme

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

~ Ben Carson

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

~ Patty Murray

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.

~ Paul Ryan

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

~ Dick Cavett

Boxing was a way to express my anger. All of a sudden, I was expressing anger, and I was good at it. I was like a Jekyll and Hyde. Boxing helped me because I was fighting the anger out. I was knocking guys out.

~ Gerry Cooney

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

~ Jerry Seinfeld

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

~ Roseanne Barr

Anger is a good motivator.

~ James Dyson